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ANP: Rove could be held in contempt of Congress.
The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Karl Rove in contempt of Congress after repeated efforts to get him to testify under oath. Now the decision to take the matter to the House floor for vote lies with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She says she won't consider the resolution until September but public pressure is mounting. Is Karl Rove headed to jail?ANP: Rove could be held in contempt of Congress.
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For the second time this year, Karl Rove is ignoring a subpoena from Congress to testify under oath. ANP is there when Karl Rove is scheduled to appear as the key witness.For the second time this year, Karl Rove is ignoring a subpoena from Congress to... more
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For the second time this year, Karl Rove is ignoring a subpoena from Congress to testify under oath. ANP tracks down Rove to get his side of the story of why he won't show up in front of the House Judiciary Committee.For the second time this year, Karl Rove is ignoring a subpoena from Congress to... more
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"We won't know the truth until Congress digs it out, and that's why it is so incredibly important that anybody that reads your blog...gets on the phone, gets on their computer, or writes Congress and tells them to hold Karl Rove in contempt if he does not show up to testify on July 10th." - Don Siegelman
Guest Blogged by Steve Heller of VelvetRevolution.us
In Exclusive Interview, the Former Alabama Governor Requests Readers Contact House Judiciary Committee to Demand Accountability for the Subversion of Justice...
The torment and imprisonment of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman, allegedly via the hands of Karl Rove and his political hitmen operatives, has been extensively covered by The BRAD BLOG.
Over the weekend, Velvet Revolution.us (co-founded by The BRAD BLOG) sat down with him for an exclusive video-taped interview in Alabama. The entire interview will be posted soon, but we have posted two excerpts on YouTube. Both are embedded below.
Siegelman wants you to let Congress know that Rove must face the consequences of his actions. So do we.
Rove has been subpoenaed to testify before Congress tomorrow, July 10th, regarding the politicization of the Justice Department. The House Judiciary Committee wants to question Rove about his knowledge of the persecution prosecution of former Alabama Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman and the U.S. Attorney firing scandal.
But Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, has informed the Judiciary Committee that Rove will not attend the hearing.
Luskin has offered to make Rove available to the committee behind closed doors and not under oath. Luskin also insists that there be no transcript of the questioning and that Rove would not respond to written questions from the panel.
The Judiciary Committee has rejected that so-called "compromise."
We join Siegelman's request, as stated in his interview, in asking you to please contact the House Judiciary Committee and your House Representative to politely but firmly insist that they hold Karl Rove in contempt of Congress.
You can call the House Judiciary Committee at 202-225-3951 and you can email them via this page.
You can call your House Rep. at 202-224-3121. More contact info for your specific Representative can be found here.
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Even though the sound quality is bad in this pod, you can hear every word of Congressman Wexler's ideas on this subject.
Cheney only uses his membership in the executive branch to claim executive privilege and avoid forced testimony and then he conveniently becomes a member of the legislative branch as President of the Senate to take on the privileges of THAT office. Isn't it time we did something about both Bush and Cheney?
Support Wexler and the efforts of others to hold these guys accountable before the clock runs out!Even though the sound quality is bad in this pod, you can hear every word of... more
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Dear Angelina,
Today, in hearings on Capitol Hill, I confronted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her role in the lies, exaggerations, and misdirection that led us into the Iraq war.
During my questioning, Secretary Rice falsely stated that she never saw intelligence casting doubt on the Bush Administration claims that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. This unbelievable statement is flatly contradicted by numerous government reports and CIA testimonials. (To watch the video of my exchange with Secretary Rice, click here.)
Secretary Rice's responses demonstrate once and for all that we need aggressive oversight over this out of control Administration. Unfortunately, the Bush Administration has ignored the constitutional right of Congress to provide such oversight.
It is time Congress took aggressive action to assert our rights on behalf of the American people.
The House of Representatives must immediately hold former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten in contempt of Congress for their failure to respond to congressional subpoenas.
I have been aggressively lobbying Members of Congress to support a vote on contempt, and I am thrilled to report that Speaker Pelosi told me directly that she agrees it is well past time to vote on contempt. I am anticipating that the House will shortly vote on resolutions of both civil and criminal contempt for both Miers and Bolten.
No one should be immune from accountability and the rule of law.
Not Harriet Miers or Josh Bolten.
And especially not Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush or Dick Cheney.
It is time to defend the Constitution and our rights as a co-equal branch of government.
I will continue to take on the Bush Administration for their outrageous abuses just as I confronted Condoleezza Rice today and Attorney General Mukasey last week. (Click here to see my questioning of Mukasey.)
With your help we will hold these top Bush officials in contempt and continue our efforts to hold impeachment hearings for Vice President Dick Cheney.
Thank you, as always, for your great support.
Yours truly,
Congressman Robert Wexler Dear Angelina,
Today, in hearings on Capitol Hill, I confronted Secretary of State... more
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Former White House counsel Harriet Miers is still taking orders from the Prez, and skipped a heariing before a House panel today about the federal prosecutor firings. The panel voted 7-5 that Bush's executive privilege claim that his former advisers can't be summoned before Congress is "out of order". Next would be to say that Miers is "in contempt of Congress", but that would have to be voted on by the full house. This thing may yet end up in court, but as with just about everything else in this administration (the war, Scooter Libby, the firings, who knows what all else), I can't help but feel that this all can't end soon enough.Former White House counsel Harriet Miers is still taking orders from the Prez, and... more
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