House ups the ante on Gonzales
By Sean Aqui | Related entries in General Politics, Law, NewsCongress is rushing headlong into its confrontation with the executive branch.
The House Judiciary Committee has voted to issue contempt citations for Joshua Bolton and Harriet Miers. If the full House approves the citations — and it could be weeks before that occurs, thanks to Congress’ upcoming summer break — they will be referred to a U.S. attorney for possible prosecution. That will trigger a court battle when the president cites executive privilege as reason for the attorney to ignore the citations.
Although the committee vote was along party lines, that doesn’t mean Republicans weren’t up for a fight with Bush. James Sensenbrenner, the former chairman of the committee, said Congress instead should have filed a suit challenging Bush’s executive privilege claim.
The text (pdf) of the committee memo (all 70 pages of it) outlines not only the reasons for the citations but also the Democratic case for the investigation into the prosecutor firings.
According to the WaPo summary, it’s mostly a compilation of everything that has come up in this whole flap, as well as a lot of fingerpointing at Rove and a rebuttal of Bush’s most recent assertion that federal prosecutors cannot undermine an executive privilege claim.
Having nothing better to do, I read through the report. Here are a few key excerpts:
(continued over at Midtopia)
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July 26th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
“The House Judiciary Committee has voted to issue contempt citations for Joshua Bolton and Harriet Miers.”
This whole administration is in “contempt.” Almost every single member in this administration is unqualified for the positions they have been appointed to. Almost all are ideologues which will go along with anything, do anything and say anything that suits, protects or furthers
the purpose of the Chief. The so-called “Chief” is a crook, a poor one at that.
This president has hurt the reputation of his country in such a great degree that on the face of it, it seems almost treasonous.
All of these Bushites are either shameless, blindly patriotic, unscrupulous, corrupt, feeble minded, naive, radical, Evangelical Christian or ruthlessly upward mobile minded individuals.
None of them, however, are Americans which I am proud of. They have given America a reputation one would have normally associated with an utterly corrupt Communist Kremlin leader or a tyrant which drains his countries wealth while watching his people starve in the street.
I can’t wait for the dictatorship to come to an end. Like the day after it rains, after a very long dry spell, this country can breath a sigh of long wished for relief and begin to reverse the Führer’s reign of corruption and lies.