Posted on 07/08/2008 11:53:38 AM PDT by STARWISE
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman warned Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Tuesday to turn over a copy of a FBI interview with Vice President Dick Cheney or face contempt charges.
The document in question is an interview Cheney gave to the FBI in the investigation of the leak of the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson, a covert CIA agent.
“The arguments you have raised for withholding the interview report are not tenable,” Waxman wrote in a letter to Mukasey.
“When the FBI interview with the Vice President was conducted, the Vice President knew that the information in the interview could be made public in a criminal trial and that there were no restrictions on Special Counsel Fitzgerald's use of the interview.”
The committee subpoenaed the interview on June 16. However, the Justice Department has yet to turn over the document.
“In light of your actions, I am writing to inform you that the Committee will meet on July 16, 2008, to consider a resolution citing you for contempt of Congress,” Waxman wrote.
“I strongly urge you to comply with the duly issued subpoena before then.”
I hope Henry gets stuck in an elevator and has to smell his own farts.
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2008/07/michael-mukasey.html
Michael Mukasey to Testify Wednesday on the Hill
Attorney General Michael Mukasey is getting ready for his third congressional oversight hearing Wednesday.
Preparation is the key word. Justice officials say he has cleared his schedule and there are no public events in his agenda in the next few days ahead of his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Mukasey’s last oversight hearings in January and February were dominated by legislators’ questions about the still-ongoing investigation into the destruction of the CIA videotapes.
He also was grilled about whether he planned to revisit the department’s past legal opinions on the use of harsh interrogation techniques. Mukasey declined to do so.
A Senate aide says topics have not been defined for the hearing, but questions from senators could cut across an entire spectrum of issues.
They include revamped national security rules for the FBI, hiring practices as outlined in a critical inspector general’s report issued last month, and the recent Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush, which forced the department to review some 250 detainee cases.
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Dum de dum dum
In light of your actions, I am writing to inform you that the Committee will meet on July 16, 2008, to consider a resolution citing you for contempt of Congress,” Waxman wrote.
All I can say is I have contempt FOR Congress........
He should tell him he’ll turn it over in 24 business hours...
Waxman is playing to the people who don't understand tyranny.....the democrats.
A few months ago Waxman was at the same coffee shop as me, getting interviewed for some TV station. He would look at me and smile and I was kind....just hoping that he could come my way and introduce himself to a constitutionalist who was ready to give him a vision of hell on earth.
"More dead horses being beaten by congresssionl democrats".
"PETA is outraged"
Sorry .. the red blob was a pic of Cheney that doesn’t link, for some reason.
Chairman Waxman, f*** you, your side of the committee, your party, your Speaker, and the horse you rode in on!
waxoff is at it again...
Tell all of the (D)s /communists that.
You’re darned right they never flinch. The GOP has never understood that in a brawl as in politics you take the gloves off and there is no such thing as a fair fight. Playing nice with the crap party only gets you kicked and encourages them to keep up the kicking.
Another Show Trial so the leftist scum in Congress can give their idiot minions some red meat to chew over on their blogs.
Meanwhile, the Dow is plummeting, gas will soon be $5/gallon, and 4 ears of corn cost $5.
This is too good not to post.
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http://thepinkflamingo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/7/7/3780705.html
Yellowcake, Patience, Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson, GWB, & St. Paul’s Tombstone Books
by SJ Reidhead at 10:08AM (MDT) on July 7, 2008 |
TRUTH, HONOR & THE AMERICAN WAY
What does St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Tombstone have with the above? Not much at first glance other than the fact that both George W. Bush and Endicott Peabody (who built St. Paul’s) are/were Episcopalian and Republican. Both were born with platinum spoons in their well-bred mouths, with blood the color of sapphires.
Oh, there’s one other minor thing: Endicott Peabody was a man of his word. He was a man of honor. He loved the Lord his God above everything. George W. Bush is a man of his word. He is a man of honor. He loves the Lord his God above everything.
Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson are unscrupulous liars and opportunists. They were more interested in a political agenda than protecting their country. They put their needs and desires ahead of that of a nation facing an irrational enemy. They have been heralded as heroic and patriotic.
George W. Bush has been treated like an evil, vile, and traitorous individual who has only his selfish interests at heart.
So, for a handful of years, George W. Bush has been the object of scorn, derision, and malicious insinuation. He has remained silent. He has not defended himself. He has born this hatred with quiet, silent strength while the Plames and Wilsons of this world continue their own little agenda of hate and self-serving money grubbing high life.
George W. Bush has been a man maligned. He is the personification of evil. The Wilsons are the perfection of innocence.
He is Kipling’s IF personified.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master,
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
—Rudyard Kipling
One hundred and twenty-six years ago, Endicott Peabody supervised the building of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Tombstone during one of the most notorious moments in the history of the Wild West.
In his humble diary (transcribed by your humble blogger) he described the day to day trials, tribulations and horrors of life in Tombstone during the last gasp of the vicious Cowboys.
It was a time of murder, revenge, and retribution promulgated by an agenda of lies and personal self indulgence. The Behans of the day were much like the Wilsons.
He would sell out to anyone, lie, cheat, and steal for a cut of the action. And, like the Wilsons he so personifies, even today he has his defenders, defying the historical record and logic, constantly proclaiming Wyatt Earp the criminal.
George W. Bush is very much like Wyatt Earp.
Ignoring his reputation and the way he would be viewed by others, he has plunged into the maelstrom. Against all odds he has defied the Wilsons and Behans of the world to do what is right and honorable.
Today as you walk the wooden sidewalks of Tombstone, Wyatt Earp’s legend is celebrated. He is considered the personification of the American character, stalwart, unyielding, and unflinching in the face of personal danger and disaster. He is power, honor, and righteousness. He is America. He is the defender of the weak. He has become the embodiment of the patron saint of American law enforcement.
John Behan is an object of scorn and derision. With the exception of a handful of defenders, he is considered one of the most corrupt figures in the Wild West. Legend portrays him as a man who will do anything, will say anything, will corrupt anything just to get ahead and come out on top. He was after money and political power.
History is going to view George W. Bush right up there with Wyatt Earp.
He will eventually be celebrated as one of the greatest leaders in American history. Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson will be right down there with John Behan, agents of corruption and vice. I just hope George W. Bush will live long enough to see his reputation vindicated. I ask and pray the same thing for myself.
Sunday, when I attended St. Paul’s Episcopal Church they were undertaking what was their 2nd baptism of a baby in just a few months.
Until this year there had been only 1 confirmation (George Parsons – 1884) and a handful of baptisms. There had only been a few marriage ceremonies.
St. Paul’s is in the middle of a revival. When I first attended HE about 8 years ago, there were perhaps 6 people attending on a regular basis. Over the past year and a half, attendance has climbed from those 6 to a dozen, then maybe 25. Today it is common to see at least 35 to 40 people in attendance during their Sunday Service.
Endicott Peabody built a beautiful church with a strong, loving foundation. He filled it with faith, salvation, and the adoration of Christ. In the perfect example of ‘what goes around comes around’ that solid foundation is now supporting growth, revival, and the excitement of the love of Christ.
Tombstone is a very strange place, in some ways almost cursed. That which survives and flourishes, those who survive and flourish are the men and women and families who attend church here on a regular bases. The churches in this tiny little town have survived.
In a town of many lost souls, there are at least a half- dozen churches. The Catholic, Congregational, Baptist, and St. Paul’s Episcopal are thriving. While people come and go, and businesses crash and burn, those souls associated with Tombstone’s churches grow strong.
There is a lesson in this for Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson.
When you build a life on lies, corruption, and the destruction of innocent people you may flourish for a time. You may think you have gained the whole world. But – if you do not get your soul, your life, your very being in touch with Christ and ask for His salvation, you are going to eventually lose it all, as did John Behan.
Wyatt Earp loved Christ. He wanted to talk about Him. He wanted to discuss salvation with the young people who would come to interview him. George W. Bush loves Christ. Endicott Peabody loved Christ.
Do you see a pattern here?
If you are alone in the world, with everyone against you, and you have Christ – you have the majority. George W. Bush is in the majority. The Wilsons are in danger of losing their mortal souls.
My money’s on George W. Bush.
“maybe cheney himself should just tell waxman to go “f” himself.”
wouldn’t it be nice to see mr. cheney, in a calm, deliberate tone, with his usual temperate demeanor, tell mr. waxman, in no uncertain terms, that he should seek employment in a profession that coincides with his hard, manipulative, uncompromising, adversarial behaviour; maybe something like a kgb fishing expedition inquisitor.
IMHO
ROFL!
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