Democratic Committee requests deposition from Secretary of State

[cascadiance]

Source: Raw Story

The House Government Committee today formally requested Secretary Rice to testify before the Oversight Committee on April 18th regarding the Administration’s claims that Iraq sought uranium from Niger, White House treatment of classified information, the appointment of Ambassador Jones as "special coordinator" for Iraq, and other subjects, RAW STORY has learned.

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Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Democratic_Committee_requests_deposition_from_Secretary_0330.html

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Looks like Waxman's finally doing the formalities! Condi's probably going to be sweating bullets. Hope someone else picks up Barbara Boxer's techniques of questioning her! Yay! Perhaps he can start narrowing in on the Berluscone/Niger/Brester Jennings/Plame/David Kelley connections now!

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. This will be fun!

[grasswire]

2. "I don't recall remembering......."

Her bobble head routine is getting stale.

[SusanaMontana41]

6. "Bobblehead" is right

Her head always shakes "no" when she's answering questions from challengers, regardless of what's coming out of her mouth. SHE doesn't even believe the crap she spews.

[Roland99]

3. They'd better put Kindasleazy Lies and her volcano of lies under OATH!!!!!

[Vidar]

4. Kudos to Waxman again.

[donkeyotay]

5. People forget where they parked their car, but to forget the rationale for war?

DR. RICE: First of all, the CIA did clear the speech in its entirety and George Tenet has said that. He’s also said that he believes that it should not have been cleared. And we apparently, with the—in October for the Cincinnati speech, not for the State of the Union, but the Cincinnati speech, George Tenet asked that this be taken out of the Cincinnati speech, the reference to yellow cake. It was taken out of the Cincinnati speech because whenever the director of Central Intelligence wants something out, it’s gone.

MR. RUSSERT: How’d it get back in?

DR. RICE: It’s not a matter of getting back in. It’s a matter, Tim, that three-plus months later, people didn’t remember that George Tenet had asked that it be taken out of the Cincinnati speech and then it was cleared by the agency. I didn’t remember. Steve Hadley didn’t remember. We are trying to put now in place methods so you don’t have to be dependent on people’s memories for something like that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3088197/

[underpants]

7. Oh my god

:wow:

[Benhurst]

8. I assume they can water-board her to make her talk. It is said to work

well for the most stubborn prisoners.

[Roy]

10. Getting her to talk is not the problem...

Remember the filibustering, using up the questioners time allotment so they could not get her to answer the questions that were asked, and insuring there would be no time for follow up or rebuttals?

The problem will be to get her to direct answers to direct questions.

[rodeodance]

9. letter is here:

http://oversight.house.gov/Documents/20070330112455-58397.pdf