Waxman Subpoenas For Plame
For no particular reason, Attorney General Michael Mukasey has for months held on to documents relating to the Valerie Plame leak investigation. These include transcribed interviews special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had with President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. Today Henry A. Waxman, chair of the House oversight committee, issued a subpoena for their release.
In a letter to Mukasey last week, Waxman pointed out that he requested these documents back in December, and the AG has neither provided them nor provided an explanation for why they shouldn't be released.
The saga of Valerie Plame, the covert CIA agent whose identity was leaked in 2003, has come back to life since Scott McClellan released his tell-all, What Happened. McClellan wrote that the "president and vice president directed me to go out there and exonerate Scooter Libby." McClellan will testify before the House Judiciary Committee Friday about the Plame leak.
The potential effect of this oversight work could range from helping MClellan's book sales to figuring out Bush's and Cheney's role in a possibly criminal matter.
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Posted 06/17/2008 01:00am with
The naivite of many Americans concerning politicians is astounding! How many years has it been since we were told of WMDs? How many years has it been since it was discovered that Cheney had private discussions with energy producers? How many years has it been since Bush and Cheney refused to allow Rice to testify at the 9/11 hearings, then refused to testify themselves (and reluctantly did so without anyone recording it in any way). These people have been criminals from Day 1. And no impeachment, no reproaches, no apologies. Do you trust a President who has read a PDB stating “Osama Bin Laden Set to Strike in The United States” and does absolutely NOTHING about it? These people have been holding back a lot of things we would have said “NO!” to. The stubborn secrecy of George Bush alone is criminal. And his attempts to silence or wreak vengeance on people like Wilson and Plame are childish and inexcusable. In a way, the Bush administration has made it impossible to believe any politician. A George W. Bush Political Review Law” should be established: The president and all of his subordinates should have a “cheat chip” imbedded in them. The chip would record every move, every discourse. The chip could be turned off, but the person would have to publicly explain why he or she had turned it off. In effect, because of lying predecessors, they would have to pay the maximum price: no privacy whatsoever.
Just a thought