Politics – A House of Representatives committee has subpoenaed Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff as part of its investigation into the treatment of suspected terrorists, the White House confirmed Tuesday.
Another waste of time. All these (investigations) over the last 5 years, have you seen anyone do any time in jail yet?
Answer=NO and you will not see anyone go to jail either.
They live by another set of rules, we cross the street wrong and pay a fine!
um...
scooter libby. guilty.
NEXT!!!
"um...
scooter libby. guilty.
NEXT!!!"
Hardly. They tried a witch hunt, and they best they could do was come up with some BS "obstruction" charge against Libby when no crime ever actually happened.
Dozen Top Legal Scholars Line Up for Libby Appeal
By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 11, 2007; Page A15
A dozen of the country's most respected constitutional scholars have leapt to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's aid, asking a federal judge if they could try to convince him about critical legal questions that favor letting Libby remain free while he appeals his conviction in the Valerie Plame leak case.
Within hours of Friday's filing from the scholars, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton wrote back. In the teeny-tiny print of a footnote, he said he was delighted to know that such a distinguished group was available to help argue on behalf of criminal defendants on "close questions" of the law.
Libs
INSANITY: "They tried a witch hunt, and they best they could do was come up with some BS "obstruction" charge against Libby when no crime ever actually happened."
REALITY: Libby was charged with and CONVICTED, repeat CONVICTED of obstruction of justice. Bush commuted his sentence.
If as you claim "no crime ever actually happened" why was Libby convicted of the crime of OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE in a court of law and why did Bush commute his jail sentence handed down for that same conviction?
Your willingness to deny what happened in reality is an embarrassment to your intelligent and an insult to the rest of ours.
I can't believe they have nothing else to do. What a total waste of time and money.
Yes. How dare they do their job and investigate criminal activity! No wonder the executive branch is always destroying evidence and claiming executive privilege for people who aren't the executive. They just want to save the taxpayers money. I guess it's cheaper for the taxpayer to be f-bombed in the a$s over and over again and have the executive branch hide evidence rather than those expensive prosecutions of criminal activity go through.
LOL
They have nothing and they know it. This is election hype. Get over it.
No endo, it's not hype, it's a subpoena. There'll be no "getting over it."
It sure would be nice if when heads finally roll from the last two terms of this evil presidency, and bad guys finally start getting their just desserts, that all you twittering little fascist puffballs polluting the propeller pages here would simply shut the hell up and slink off to your rancid holes in the ground, never to be heard from again. That would sure be nice, wouldn't it.
There they go, nutscapers supporting free speech once again. Nice
Speak all you want, fascist. I'm just saying it would be nice if your kind disappeared altogether from the face of the earth, that's all. You're certainly free to keep talking while you leave, and all the way up until you leave. Have at it. Your noxious speech is both protected and accepted as a given; it's your EXISTENCE I can't abide. Of course this would be a perfect world I'm dreaming of, not the one we have. You're still here........ aren't you...
Nothing will happen, "Executive Privilege" will be claimed and no testimony will be forthcoming....
can't.. Cheney claims he's not part of the Executive Branch.. he cannot have it both ways..
"can't.. Cheney claims he's not part of the Executive Branch.. he cannot have it both ways.."
That would be nice, but he's played both sides of the fence before and gotten away with it just fine.
He had a great teacher in Clinton. He played all kinds of games with investigative committees and you people loved it. Now a Republican is doing it and it is horrible.
Good for the goose, good for the gander.
And what do you think will happen to judge confirmations if Obama gets elected. The Democrats showed the Republicans what to do. LOL
Send over the U.S. Marshalls, slap the cuffs on, drag him into the chamber, and swear him in. What's the problem? Would you figure a U.S. Marshall would refuse to do that if a Senate Committee told him to?
Gas prices zooming out of control, real estate in crisis, and a war in Iraq. And Congress holds one investigation after another on Steroids in MLB, NE Patriots taping oppenents, and other witchhunts like this. Talk about a Congress out of touch. If you took a poll of the American people and asked them "which one of the two Congress should be investigating and doing something about?" Which would get the bigger response:
US handling of terroist suspects?
The Gas crisis?
I would hope the US handling of terrorist suspects as the majority of issues surrounding this comes down to the basic tenets of our society (do we support torture or not) and the basic rule of law as described in the constitution (which has been violated over and over by Bush with his signing statements).
Expensive gas isn't so expensive. Europe's had gas this expensive for decades. Stop whining about this dollar and that dollar.
They can't do anything about either one so thay want the one where they can make the most noise and blame the opposition. The gas crisis is partly caused by the Democrats refusal to allow drilling for oil and building nuclear power plants. All the environmental wackos that are part of the liberal far left. That would be embarrassing to them.
The House needs to get this all out in the open so Bush will know precisely what crimes he must pardon himself, Cheney and the other war criminals in this administration that is so hell bent on restoring honor and integrity to the Oval office.
LOL
Get over it. There are no crimes or there would have been hearing immediately after taking over from the Republicans. The looney lefts tired complaints of ILLEGAL and CRIMINAL is getting boring.
Endo-
President Bush is trying to pardon himself. Here's the deal: Under the War Crimes Act, violations of the Geneva Conventions are felonies, in some cases punishable by death. When the Supreme Court ruled that the Geneva Convention applied to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees, President Bush and his boys were suddenly in big trouble. They've been working these prisoners over pretty good. In an effort to avoid possible prosecution they're trying to cram this bill through Congress before the end of the week before Congress adjourns. The reason there's such a rush to do this? If the Democrats get control of the House in November this kind of legislation probably wouldn't pass.
You wanna know the real disgrace about what these people are about to do or are in the process of doing? Senator Bill Frist and Congressman Dennis Hastert and their Republican stooges apparently don't see anything wrong with this. I really do wonder sometimes what we're becoming in this country.
Jack Cafferty
You're a true red, white and blue dittohead blind conservative patriot Endo. Ram your head a little deeper into the sand my friend, you look better with every inch.
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From the article:
"In a May 1 letter to the Judiciary Committee, Cheney legal adviser Kathryn Wheelbarger said Addington would agree to be subpoenaed if the committee limits questions to....."
In a single phrase, the unbelievable and limitless arrogance of this wretched excuse for an executive branch is revealed in its full, execrable splendor: He would.... AGREE TO BE subpoenaed.... on HIS conditions....
The mind simply boggles. Really now... Is that how subpoenas work these days? Can I do that too if I'm subpoenaed -- check its contents before deciding if I will accept it? Think I might find a "legal adviser" to tell me that's OK?
No better illustration is needed for the belief prevailing in this horrid regime that they are all above the law. What absolute monsters we have loosed on the world for the last 8 years. What incalculable evil.
I guarantee you if you get a subpoena from a congressional committee you would be well advised to have a bank of attorneys there with you and not respond until they advise you. Those who don't end up in deep do do.
No, what I'd apparently be "well-advised" to do is tell the committee I'll respond to the subpoena only if I choose to, and would dictate to them what questions they could and could not ask me. And then I'd tell them if they didn't like that, they could go f--k themselves.
LOL
You don't have that much political power or access to top secret information.
Yes, and there we have it don't we... Thank you for putting the matter so plainly, while simultaneously displaying your utter lack of comprehension on the issue itself. Yes, indeed, only someone with political power and top secret information can behave in the manner I mockingly described, Good show endo.