Conyers Pushes Bush On Subpoenas, Threatens Contempt Vote By Thanksgiving

AP:

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers exhorted the White House Monday to comply with subpoenas of President Bush's key confidants in connection with a probe of U.S. attorney firings.

In so doing, the Michigan Democrat raised the specter of a House floor vote by Thanksgiving on contempt of Congress citations against chief of staff Joshua Bolten and former legal counsel Harriet Miers.

"As we submit the committee's contempt report to the full House, I am writing one more time to seek to resolve this issue on a cooperative basis," Conyers said in a letter to White House counsel Fred Fielding.

Conyers wants testimony and documents from Bolten and Miers on whether the Justice Department's purge of nine federal prosecutors last winter was carried out at the White House's behest.

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Comments

[ElkoJohn]

UPDATE, CHENEY'S IMPEACHEMENT.

H.RES.333 --> Title: Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] (introduced 4/24/2007)
Latest Major Action: 5/4/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
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COSPONSORS(22):
Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2]
Rep Brady, Robert A. [PA-1]
Rep Clarke, Yvette D. [NY-11]
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1]
Rep Cohen, Steve [TN-9]
Rep Davis, Danny K. [IL-7]
Rep Ellison, Keith [MN-5]
Rep Farr, Sam [CA-17]
Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51]
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18]
Rep Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [GA-4]
Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [MI-13]
Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9]
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7]
Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8]
Rep Payne, Donald M. [NJ-10]
Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9]
Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10]
Rep Waters, Maxine [CA-35]
Rep Watson, Diane E. [CA-33]
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6]
Rep Wynn, Albert Russell [MD-4]

[citizenofmars]

bring back John Doe..

[Janco54]

Another letter????!!!! WTF! Why would they suddenly start answering these letters NOW?
They've let so many go by unanswered with no consequences why would they do anything different this time?

[wm1066]

I think Conyers has been bullied by Pelosi NOT to do what everyone wants him to do! Pelosi has kicked him in a corner and forced him to shut up. We need new leadership.

[NATIONALSECURITY4US]

Read my letter to Rep. Conyers committee about

crimes that this administrations' hi-level

govt. officials committed which AMOUNTS TO

TREASON...

shrub is totally full of shit about this war on

terror because he as "the decider" let someone

who was captured in America under a U.S.

Federal Indictment from Mukaseys' hayday on the

bench at the Southern District of N.Y.

This may tell you why he was picked...

Read all about it at:

http://360.yahoo.com/caspereraser1


Official E-mails to both the House / Senate Judiciary Committees + Rep. Waxman comm. on Govt. Oversight & Accountability + Rep. Pelosi so-called battle to "CLEAN UP THE CULTURE OF CORRUPTION" = THE LINE OF LIES TO WIN RE-ELECTIO­N...

Not to mention a swarm of many others members of Congress in various committees­...

Realistically these members of Congress inability to investigate the crimes of TREASON
as they have been laid out to them in GREAT DETAIL leaves them just as culperable if not worse by KNOWING ABOUT ALL OF THIS & ARE DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT -- than all of those who COLLUDED & CONSPIRED to commit SERIOUS FELONIES

[Sundialsvc4]

If you allow the Congress to be an object of contempt, why are you alarmed if others in Government are contemptuous of it?

[newunderground]

ENOUGH TALK, JUST DO IT, JOHN. WE GOT YOUR BACK. VOTE FOR THE KUCINICH IMPEACMENT RESOLUTION!

[ElkoJohn]

don't hold your breath, the Boy Emporer will ignore your contempt of Congress citations, when are you Dumbocrats gonna impeach this war criminal ??

[rkx13]

the creep is a wanton killer . how many bodies have to be dragged into the court to convince you. he enjoys it.

[RAMHaiti]

Congressman Conyers is a good man. I've always known him to get to the bottom of things. As soon as he has the necessary votes the smug will lose their smug. Count on it.

[zendem1]

Dear President,
Please, oh pretty please honor my committee subpoenas for your maid and that other guy. If not, at least let's just make a big show until everybody forgets about it.
Best,
John

P.S. Still up for a bike ride at Camp David next Saturday?

[Independent voter]

The Democrats have become the party of all talk and no do.

What a targedy for those who believed that these people stood for change.

Roll over Dirty Harry, spread 'em granny - Bush wants more money for the Republican wars.

[ctbutte]

Go ahead, Make our day wimp!

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

did Gonzales and Rove get pardoned or something?

subpoena Gonzales and Rove! they're not protected by privilege or immunity or anything from holding an office.

[scooperss]

What year?