Posted on 07/03/2008 9:25:23 PM PDT by smithone
The standoff between the House and the Bush administration over the congressional testimony of top White House aides continued on Thursday when House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) threatened to hold Karl Rove in contempt if he follows through on his refusal to respond to a committee subpoena.
Conyers and Administrative Law subcommittee Chairwoman Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) were responding to a July 1 letter they received from Rove’s attorney, Robert D. Luskin, in which Luskin said his client would be unable to appear before Sanchez’s subcommittee. The panel is investigating the politicization within the Justice Department and had subpoenaed Rove to testify before the subcommittee next Thursday.
In his letter, Luskin said Rove would not appear “on the grounds that Executive Privilege confers upon him immunity from process in response to a subpoena directed to this subject.”
In a letter released Thursday, Conyers and Sanchez rejected that claim, and warned that they could move to hold Rove in contempt of Congress if he fails to respond to the subpoena.
“We want to make clear that the subcommittee will convene as scheduled and expects Mr. Rove to appear, and that a refusal to appear in violation of the subpoena could subject Mr. Rove to contempt proceedings, including statutory contempt under federal law and proceedings under the inherent contempt authority of the House of Representatives," Conyers and Sanchez wrote.
If both sides follow through on their threats, Rove would become the third member of Bush’s innermost circle to be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify after being subpoenaed. The House in February voted to hold White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the same panel.
Conyers and Sanchez also again rejected Rove’s offer to appear for an off-the-record interview.
When your contemptible, don’t be surprised if you’re treated with contempt.
Can’t say they are a do nothing congress. They hold grandstanding hearings that accomplish nothing all the time.
Is this "politicization" the Democrats are squealing about now the firing of the few US attorneys?
He (Bush) should have fired them all as Clinton did.
Nice guys finish last.
Now that they’re in charge however, said hearings are no longer being held in the broom closet.
Changing the venue doesn't make them any less pointless, useless, and stupid. I guess when they waste their time like this, they're not making life miserable for the rest of us with more idiotic laws.
Click on the WCW link just below and see: "Endorsers of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include". Conyers' endorsement appears right after Ward Churchill's. Al Sharpton's, Maxine Waters and Jesse Jackson Jr's endorsements are also on the list:
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
On Oct 5, 2006, demonRat chair of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr, GAVE A SPEECH to the World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime organization. Here's full-page coverage of it from the WCW website:
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3114&Itemid=243
Fact: World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement/organization initiated and controlled by the Revolutionary Communist Party. (scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)
*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration
*Organizes college and high-school students
*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :
"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning. And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":
http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
Also from the Revolutionary Communist Party website: "Tearing Up the U.S. Paper Tiger in Korea: How 300,000 Chinese Troops Snuck into Korea and Kicked the Ass of the U.S. Armed Forces" RW #1059, June 18, 2000:
http://rwor.org/a/v22/1052-059/1059/korea.htm
Here's the Revolutionary Communist Party (see link below) boasting of a FULL PAGE 'World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime' ad of theirs which appeared in the New York Slimes. (either "rwor.org" or "revcom.us" takes you to the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party). The NY Times has since allowed several additional full-page RCP/WCW ads.
Article title: "Who Hated the Bush Step Down Ad in the New York Times? ...And what that Tells Us About Why We Must and How We Can Drive Out the Bush Regime"(actual title)
http://www.rwor.org/a/028/who-hated-bush-ad.htm
This behavior thrives when we don't charge Democrats with treason when they act like cheerleaders for failure in the war on terror.
A portion of the Republican party has been successfully emasculated by whining liberals.
Unfortunately this is setting a banana-republic style precedent wherein all officials of the previous administration can expect to be persecuted and prosecuted by their political opponents.
Thanks for the links, very scary.
Karl looked all nervous about it on Hannity & Colmes tonight..NOT
The guy needs to be investigated already. I’ve been posting this stuff far and wide for years. And all of it is STILL up on their websites. I have similar stuff on House Ways and Means chair, Charlie Rangel. See my FR home page for the info and links.
ROFLMAO!!!
What exactly does this entail? Has ANYONE ever been held in contempt of Congress? Anyone knows?
Obligatory Karl Rove "Frog March" image.
I’m fairly certain that some people have been accused of comtempt of Congress but I have no idea what happens to them. I don’t think Congress has any judicial powers but I don’t know for sure.
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