Rove refuses subpoena, leaves country

[99th_Monkey]

Source: RawStory

Rove refuses subpoena, leaves country
Nick Juliano
Published: Thursday July 10, 2008

Update: Conyers gives Rove 5 days to comply before pursuing 'all available options'

Former White House adviser Karl Rove has ignored a subpoena from congressional Democrats to testify about allegations of political pressure at the Justice Department and his alleged role in the prosecution of a former governor of Alabama.

A House subcommittee voted 7-1 Thursday to reject Rove's claim that executive privilege freed him from an obligation to testify, leaving open the possibility the Republican political guru will be held in contempt.

During the hearing, Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT) revealed that Rove was out of the country. According to the liberal blog ThinkProgress, Rove's lawyer's confirmed that Rove was out of the country “on trip "scheduled long before the subpoena" was sent.”



Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rove_disses_Congres_refuses_subpoena_to_0710.html

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There's a very revealing video at the link of House proceedings that puts the lie to Rove's claim that his trip was scheduled "long before" the subpoena.

I notice there's NO MENTION whatsoever of exactly WHERE Rove is fleeing too on his .. ahem .. "long scheduled" trip.

I'm thinking ..hmm ... Paraguay perhaps?

:shrug:

[NanceGreggs]

1. Well, that confirms it ...

Apparently Mr. Rove has absolutely nothing to hide.

[99th_Monkey]

7. Yes this would appear to absolve Rove completely of any wrongdoing ...

everyone knows it's only the lilly white innocents that thumb their noses at the law and flee
the country to avoid having to answer inconvenient questions about their crimes in public.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Beartracks]

37. Well, of course.

Why don't you evil liberals stop pestering that nice young man? You're just upsetting him.

More
:sarcasm:

[JuniperLea]

2. They ruin us then split...

I'm sure this was the plan all along.

[Name removed]

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[JuniperLea]

28. I sure hope that sticks!

I hope "open to extradition protocols" doesn't equal "open to bribes".

Did all of the Bush administration exchange their currency? I've often wondered... thinking that would be a big red flag.

[Dr.Phool]

38. How about extraordinary rendition?

Wouldn't that be fitting!

[Canuckistanian]

43. Rove keeps a handy guide to extradition treaties in his pocket

"Be Prepared" is his motto.

And yet the irony is, he was beaten up in Boy Scouts on a regular basis.

[arias]

93. Rove's Boy Scout past ...

Yes, he was physically abused in the boy scouts no? I always wondered whether his 'abuse' included clandestine sexual abuse from the boy scout counselors, a vocation that has become a breeding ground for pedophiles and whether being a victim opened up a whole new world to his proclivities and sexual orientation.

Jeff Gannon came to be white house press reporter through his connection to Rove, and his exclusive access required a higher up in the administration to nix the standard vetting that would apply to all White House correspondents. It was all just a little too convenient, including of how the issue just disappeared after a while.

[The Doctor.]

96. ....

Oh...













Just send a Newegg.com certificate to their site in my name for the keyboard. K?

[The Doctor.]

92. Apparently the APC is truly Democratic. The guy's an ex-Bishop too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Lugo

And we've known about Cheney's divestments for a while.

[bperci108]

127. They don't have to;

it's all nice and safe in Switzerland along with the millions Grandpappy Prescott Bush received for helping Hitler construct the Nazi war machine.:grr:

Remember, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. :puke:

[hack89]

49. There is no real evidence that Bush bought land in Paraguay

it appears to be a rumor amplified by the internet.

[hisownpetard]

51. Jeez. All this time, whenever someone referred to Bush moving to Paraguay, I thought it was a joke!

[hack89]

160. More of an internet myth. nt

[glitch]

25. Yep. Like termites they are. Or mould. nt

[Patsy Stone]

3. May he never return. n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. There's something called Interpol who would love to arrest him!

[99th_Monkey]

21. Great Idea. That would be some "backup" for the House Sargent-at-Arms. ~nt~

[Rosa Luxemburg]

27. after all other countries have different laws and put hin under house arrest

criminal

[Patsy Stone]

22. I was sorta thinking about extradition treaties

because a big part of me wants to see him go to jail. Still, I can't help hoping he just goes away -- anywhere but here.

[crikkett]

42. Amen. n/t

[Juche]

4. What bullshit

If I tried to pull that same crap I'd be arrested on the spot.

"Yeah I choose not to respond to a subpoena, in fact I'm leaving the country". Try saying that to a judge and see if he responds the way Conyers does, by talking tough and doing nothing.

[99th_Monkey]

6. It appears that Conyers should make sure the House Sargent-at-Arms has his passport in order. ~nt~

[WCGreen]

5. Dominican Republic to party with Rush and the boys...

[99th_Monkey]

10. My guess is Paraguay, and I'm sticking to it.

You can bet that it's not France though, where the authorities nearly DID arrest Rumsfeld a few months back.

[uppityperson]

8. k&r

[superconnected]

9. Say hi to kenny boy, Karl.

[mopinko]

13. yup.

and whatsername olsen.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

90. I can't keep track of all the crooks and liars...

which one is Olsen?

[mopinko]

120. wife of (now) bush solicitor general ted olson, who was on a plane on 9/11.

blond lady that used to do teevee during the blowjob impeachment.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

174. Oh, yeah.

Thanks... I coulda used The Google but was too lazy.

[Politicalboi]

147. Is that what happened

To Barbra Olsen. I wondered how they could shut her up when she was supposed to be dead from 9/11. It wouldn't surprise me.

[racaulk]

131. Yeah, no kidding!

I would bet every penny I have that Mr. Lay is still alive an in exile somewhere abroad.

Fucking criminals, the lot of them. :grr:

[trthnd4jstc]

11. Does not leaving the Country while under a House Subpoena break another law.

Is it true that Republicans can get away with breaking almost any law?

[99th_Monkey]

19. That's a great point. Snap .... I didn't even think of that.

But I'm sure Conyers is getting his Sargent-at-Arms passport in order, right?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

20. he should be seized right now!

[lonestarnot]

29. Yes.

[ladjf]

53. I'm not a lawyer but leaving the Country while under a subpoena

seems like an unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

[Kool Kitty]

100. That's what it sounds like to me, too.

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. So, where's Waldo?

[Wizard777]

14. Well our spineless and gutless Congress could get interpol to do their dirty work.

Issue an international arrest warrant for Karl Rove. Then when Interpol Arrest hims. They can say it was interpol that arrested him not us. But since they arrested him now we have to jail him. But we aren't the bad guys that arrested poor Saint Rove. It's Interpol. Maybe they could do some rendition too. I think Iran would agree to host Rove. We can call that diplomacy. He could be our ghost diplomat to Iran.

[barbtries]

15. oh and he's a coward too

not that it surprises me, but - maybe it does. because he has been so brazen with his dirty tricks and politicizing of the government and criminal activities, i guess i thought he wouldn't be a fucking coward. but he is. i certainly do hope that wherever he has slithered off to, he's having a terrible time. i also hope that if and when it's revealed where he is, that government will just go apprehend him for crimes against humanity. he's one of the worst of the worst imo.

[cascadiance]

16. I'd say "a new job at Haliburton" in Dubai!

[barbtries]

46. that was my guess

dubai or saudi arabia. hang out with his buds, run campaigns and ruin lives from a distance. ugh.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

70. Someone needs a Swiftshieks campaign, I'm sure.

:)

[SomeGuyInEagan]

57. I'd say setting up house for Jr. in Dubai

But, what the hell, it's not like anyone in Congress has what it takes to do anything about Rove, Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Hughes, Powell, Bremer, etc.

They'll all end up fat, rich and safe, funneling their money to groups intent on rewriting history and erecting statues to them.

[spag68]

77. Would that be Karen Hughes?

If it is, then today I saw that she was hired by the Penn idiot that ran Hilary's campaign into the ground. I'm not able to donate much to anyone, but I, would find a way to donate to an arrest rove fund.

[cascadiance]

102. Hmm... According to this article there is no extradition treaty with Dubai...

Perhaps Congress's time now would be WELL SPENT in crafting one, though I'm sure the president would probably veto or signing statement it away!

http://camelsnose.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/halliburton-moves-cheney-changes-citizenship-to-dubai/

[AlbertCat]

133. there is no extradition treaty with Dubai...

Well, duh! Why do you think Halliburton moved there?

Dick will jetting over there .02 seconds before his term is officially up.

[phrigndumass]

17. Let's hope it's a third-world country, or a long stay with Michael Jackson

wherever he fled to. They'd make a great Odd Couple, lol ...

[nc_gadfly]

23. hey photoshop peeps!

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[biermeister]

26. all those who had "leaves country" in the pool

email me to collect their fair share

[Critters2]

32. Damn!! I had "dies and moves in next to Kenny Boy". I never win anything! nt

[lonestarnot]

30. He'll prollee be kidnapped to some jungle.

[Critters2]

31. Time to put him on the terror watch list, and not let him back in!! nt

[bdamomma]

124. they need to arrest him.

[NewEnglandGirl]

33. I don't understand

why he can't be made to testify.

[CTyankee]

35. I wonder the same thing.

I mean, it IS a subpoena from a court! What is up with that???

[JHB]

111. He CAN be made to testify...

...but the Democrats are being too lily-livered/bought/triangulating/complicit/your-suggestion-here to take the actions they need to do it.

[2peaches2]

156. None of Congress

really want him to testify or they would stop this crap and have him arrested. NOTHING is going to happen to Rove and the rest because no one has the balls to really take them on.

[NewEnglandGirl]

166. We have to make waves about this

we can't give in, we have to email our congressmen etc. and show outrage, otherwise the next thing we'll be hearing is that he's pardoned. And then no matter what happens, at least we've done everything we could.

[LiberalEsto]

34. Dubai nt

[The Doctor.]

36. Well there's a little irony... some members of the Administration can't LEAVE the country...

others can't return.

If that's all the justice we get, and it's nowhere near enough, I'll take it anyway. Spending the rest of your life knowing you'll never be free to go where you want counts for something.

[salguine]

39. if the past is any indicator, "all available options" should consist of

sighing helplessly and saying "we tried."

[rpannier]

67. And a tersely worded letter informing the White House how upset they are at what's going on

Hell...they may even include a "wagging finger" or a "if this happens again we'll..."

[Beartracks]

40. Farewell, turd blossom!

http://www.cafepress.com/tulsatees/3492492

[Newsjock]

41. Arrest Rep. Cannon, too

Since he apparently knows that Mr. Rove is out of the country -- and knew before today's hearing that he would be -- he is an accessory to the crime.

[DailyGrind51]

44. Do you think he will wind up working at Halliburton headquarters

in Dubai?

[jeff30997]

45. "leaves country"

Best part!

[UrbScotty]

47. I thought America seemed like a kinder, gentler country today. (nt)

[Connonym]

48. I thought I had used up all my moral outrage

I was wrong. I long ago realized there was no Santa and no tooth fairy but now am I going to find out that justice was always a myth too?

[liberal N proud]

50. Rove in exile

May bu$h and Cheney live the same fate. Men without a country.

[Doug.Goodall]

110. Never spend another dime on Rove

They should Deny him his retirement, and any monetary transfers while he is out of the country.

He can either come home and go to prison, or live on his own abroad.

[bdamomma]

121. this is for real he fled the country?

he is committing another felony, I hope another country arrests him.

[windoe]

52. I knew it.

It is so hard to stand by and watch this tragedy, isn't it?

[Name removed]

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[bonito]

55. Bout f- ing time they are put on the run n/t

[klook]

56. He'll be a man without a country...

Maybe he can live on a ship circling the world the rest of his worthless life.

[havocmom]

61. Sweet! I always wanted to become a pirate and chase down rogues!

[JanusAscending]

85. "ARRRGH" !!! Matey!

n/t

[King Coal]

180. Aye! Tie the scurvy dog to the yardarm, me mates!

Wow, I just came in and saw this story, and I was shocked!
:sarcasm:

[kitty1]

58. Maybe he's hanging out at the Bush Paraguay retreat

[Capt. America]

59. Once again the score: Team Evil: 327,995 ; Wussy Dems 2

FYI: I am spotting the Dems 2 victories; changing "freedom fries" back to French fries and taking the $10,000 drape of of lady Justice in the DOJ.

[rpannier]

68. Thanks for clarifying the two

I was at a loss for what the two victories were

Now I know...thanks

[Art_from_Ark]

83. Maybe there's another victory

The Social Security privatization scheme has been scuttled, at least for the time being

[Kolesar]

116. ^ Bored occupant of a chair...eom

[samsingh]

60. if he has nothing to hide, why is he running?

[bdamomma]

122. exactly, he can take the executive privilege and shove it.

[samsingh]

136. shove it where bush has probably been

[Alcibiades]

62. That's McCain's advisor Karl Rove

Can we get a pledge, from both candidates, that no pardons will be issued? What about it, Mr. McCain?

[hyphenate]

63. Well, we know a few things about Rove

1) He will be pardoned before January 20, 2009, regardless of the shitstorm he's been part of;

2) He is once again getting away with murder;

3) He's almost as indestructible as the Teflon crimeboss--in fact, I would probably say he's more dangerous by far as the Mafia crimeboss;

4) Don Siegleman should be freed, because this shows just how influential Rove is;

5) And anyone else who has crossed paths with Rove and disagreed with him is likely now dead, dying, in jail or has had their reputation ruined.


Remember when Hillary was laughed at by so many people by stating that there was a "vast right-winged conspiracy?" Why didn't anyone listen to her? She knew what she was talking about, and still does. But 95% of the right-wing laughed at her, and at least 70% of her own party did as well. It's been very apparent that most people still don't see the truth as it really is.

[RedLetterRev]

151. I think WJC's later clarification is more accurate:

there's no conspiracy. Sunsabitches are right out in the open with it.

[Botany]

64. Time to put a member of the Capital Hill P.D. outside of Fox News 24/7

.... Arrest his ass. Son of bitch runs like a little punk ... Don Siegelman walked into his
Kangroo court.

Maybe we can use the new FISA law to hunt him down?

[pjt7]

65. Congress better

throw everything they have @ Rove. He has been allowed to betray our great Country for too long.

[Botany]

69. the man is a crook and thug

he is no great campaign genius but just a cheater. Time to use FISA and the NSA to hunt him down.

[proReality]

66. Off to see a plastic surgeon maybe? n/t

[DCKit]

71. The same plastic surgeon who works on the *real* Miss Piggy, no doubt. n/t

[marias23]

72. Cool... a New Episode of the Fugitive

[JackDragna]

73. If they don't go after him here, with all their guns..

I'm out of the party.

[comtec]

112. and where the fuck are you going?

it's because of people like you THAT cowards like those in congress GOT there!
Stay and fight!!! OR STFU!

[juajen]

118. Zanex is your friend!

[jmpnfool]

135. I have stayed and fought

But the dem leadership hasnt fought with me. Youre right, no where else to go, but why stick with spineless pols? I think I'll just lurk and watch my country go right down the drain. How sad.

[JackDragna]

139. No, it's the fault of the weak-kneed, limp campaigns..

..of Mr. Gore and Mr. Kerry and countless Democrats at the national level, who refuse to fight back, who refuse to risk anything for the sake of American citizens. At some point, the co-opting of the positions of the radical right by our own party makes it inviable as a party for liberals and progressives. It's damned near that point.

[bluesmail]

74. Sinnerman, where you going to run to?

[Wizard777]

75. Okay we'll give you your 1millionth chance to comply with the subpeona.

If he wasn't there on the date on the subpeona. Lock his ass up. They don't have to say mother may I or anything even remotely close to that. I don't know why Congress is wearing their heart on their sleeve over this. The neocons and 26%er republicans are going to think they're mother fuckers no matter what they do. It the other 74% of the country they have to worry about voting their dumbasses out of office if they keep this jellyfish shit up.

[dysfunctional press]

76. i certainly hope it evolves into him being seized at customs, and frog-marched out of the airport...

when he tries to return.

if he stays away- all the better.

[DirtyDawg]

78. Pick him up....

....and transport him to wherever in a helicopter...then throw his ass out at 5,000 feet and be done with the SOB.

[Historic NY]

79. LOCK HIS ASS UP.........show us you have the balls to do so....

or just fold up shop. I am sick of the weak, limp wristed Dems who bark but are nothing more than poodles.

[annm4peace]

80. Can they freeze his assets ?

I hope they go through his how house looking for evidence and freeze his assets.

[DallasNE]

81. So, Why Doesn't That Foreign Country

Issue an arrest warrant for war crimes?

Also, why was he allowed to leave the country when there was an outstanding warrant for Rove on the books. It sure looks like Homeland Security messed up big time.

[kmac3]

82. Beyond disgusting . . . . .

Any everyday citizen would be in jail . . . not any of Bush's cronies. Despite all of the illegal and corrupt business they have been involved in all they have to do is resign from their position and all is forgotten. What happened to paying consequences for breaking the law? Oh, that's just for everyday jills and joes!}(

[sakabatou]

84. "The truth?! YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!"

[Straight Shooter]

86. There's an overseas plastic surgeon who is probably sharpening his scalpels now.

Rove will resurface, but he won't be recognizable.

Things have been so weird with the bush gang, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Rove did alter his face.

[bdamomma]

123. he can change his face but couldn't change his fingerprints though

[Straight Shooter]

138. True, but he wouldn't be recognized and that's what would help him most.

If his face is changed, he wouldn't arouse suspicion.

I think he's just going to disappear into a cushy life where no one cares what he's done. He'll be protected.

[Posteritatis]

163. Or maybe he's read the news for the last few years and is dullening them... (nt)

[slampoet]

87. Let us pray he gets the Trotsky Treatment in Mexico.

[azureblue]

88. Flight from prosecution

That alone is enough to get him arrested overseas and brought back to face charges.

But maybe better than that is some country arresting him for being an international war criminal. Like some country that will hold a person until they have enough evidence.

Let's find out where he went to and alert activists there. Maybe Rove can be jailed in the country he fled to.

[lovuian]

89. We can jail people all over the world and pick them up by

plane and carry them anywhere we want

and Rove leaves the country ...where and what country protects this criminal of the first degree

[Bette Noir]

91. I hope he doesn't come back.

[kaygore]

94. Rats, Rove is supposed to be in Va Beach late next week for a fund raiser

for our rubber-stamp-dumb-as-dirt-whore-congresswoman, Thelma "Caught Red Handed" Drake. Yep, the same idiot who sponsored Webb's GI Bill in Congress (her congressional district is heavily military, taking in all of Virginia Beach and some of Norfolk and the Peninsula)and then voted against it.

Talk about suicide! Rove as her fund raiser???!!!

Plus, this time we have a GREAT Democratic candidate, Glenn Nye, to run against her.

I guess now if Rove shows up here, we should make a citizens' arrest. We were going to hold a mock trial, but out and out arrest would be even better!

[southerncrone]

95. My guess is he HASN'T left the country. It would be true Rovian style

to use Cannon to send up a smoke screen to shake them off his trail. He's prolly holed up w/Cheney in the bunker.

But if he HAS left the country, I put my money on Thailand--it must seem like DisneyWorld to his "sort"!:puke:
If he has left the US, he can still puppeteer from anywhere on the globe. We're not rid of him yet!

[RedLetterRev]

157. The mind boggles

with the juxtaposition of "Gannon", "Rove" and "holed" in the same sentence. Dunno whether to :rofl: or :puke:

On edit, Oh, "Cannon"... read in haste, repent a leisure :D

[DUlover2909]

97. A non treaty country for sure where the Hauge can't get him.

[Raine1967]

98. NO one is reporting where he went.

I do not question Raw story...

But I have a lot of other questions... For now this:
If he is trying to say h has executive priviledge, doesn't that mean that his travel would have to be cleared by the state department? (not sure, not a lawyer, just asking)
Also, What about his new employer... Fox? Wouldn't they have some idea about this?

Plus, Well seriously, how did Representative Cannon know and no one else?

The Entire story smells and no one knows where this f*cker is. I have been looking all over the place for something --- anything. I might actually call FISA... (ok my sister, but FISA REALLY loves me) :sarcasm:

MAybe they will know where he is..

[Jim Lane]

99. The effect of the Rove pardon

Bush can immunize Rove from criminal prosecution for the crimes he's committed. He can't immunize Rove from an obligation to testify in response to a subpoena.

In fact, if Rove were to testify now, it's conceivable that he'd respond to some questions by refusing to answer and invoking the Fifth Amendment. If Bush has pardoned him, though, then he's no longer at risk of criminal prosecution and isn't entitled to plead self-incrimination.

By the way, I'm no extradition expert, but I'd have to wonder if the wording of the extradition treaties allows the procedure to be used for a mere subpoena, as opposed to an arrest warrant.

[Raine1967]

103. We still need to know where he went.

That is a critical *missing* piece of information.

[FourScore]

101. Arrest him at the airport upon re-entry!!! n/t

[Iwillnevergiveup]

104. Family

Rove has a wife and one young son, right? Did he leave them behind?

I think he's still in the country...Cheney knows lots of hiding places for him.

[DFW]

105. List of likely Rove safe houses:

Dubai
Kish (Cheney's house there)
Paraguay
Area 51

List of places I wish he'd gone:
The North Pole (ice free)
The South Pole (ice-full)
The big red spot of Jupiter
Any maximum security prison in the southern USA, Mexico, Romania or Pakistan
Directly to hell, do not pass Go, and you've already collected your $200 (million), so forget that one too.

[Sunnyshine]

106. The White House maintains that its staffers' internal communications are confidential.

No need to be confidential. They already shredded, burned, destroyed, stashed, gagged, tortured, paid, and pardoned all their skeletons. Let's consider that which is publicly evident and obvious. No need for confidential anything. We have the evidence we need.

[truthisfreedom]

107. 'Cut and run' bushite.

Typical.

Just like bush, who will be running to Argentina or wherever he's just purchased his massive land package, so he can avoid the Hague.

[JohnnyRingo]

108. Karl Rove has dual citizenship

US and Austria as I understand.
I wonder if he went there.

[Capt. America]

114. Carl Rove has dual citizenship in the US and Hell

[Judi Lynn]

109. He could have gone to Miami! Bush terrorists go there all the time! Cuban exile bomber/mass murderer

Luis Posada Carriles, a right-wing terrorist lives there freely now, even though other countries have been trying to extradite him. So does his cohort, fellow bomber/mass murderer/terrorist Orlando Bosch, and many others.

That's _Bush's vote base, his "homeys" and the home of Jeb and _{Bush #41's} business partners, and CIA operatives, including the Watergate burglars.

He couldn't be safer!

K-K-Karl, you blew it. You didn't have to run off! You could have stayed with your fellow scoff-laws in Miami.

[comtec]

113. SEIZE HIS ASSETS!!!

If he has stocks, sell them, if he has property SEIZE IT!
I think it's only fair to give his wife the option of divorcing him in absentia (done all the time for dead bead dads) and give her half, then take THE REST!
EVERY PENNY in his name in ANY COUNTRY WE CAN we should take EVERY PENNY!!!!!
mind you im sure he has loads in the Caymans, and in the swiss banks (the bastards!)
but this :"We don't know where he is" crap is utter bullshit!
I guarantee you that the US knows every plane I've been on since leaving!
They know, but they aren't telling us... THAT is how COMPLICIT the MEDIA is in all this!

if it was you or me, BOOM, nightly news within 10 minutes, our plane would not have even LANDED before we're up on teh screen!

[Vinnie From Indy]

115. Uh-Oh! The Judiciary Committee is gonna have to write another letter!

The Dems in Congress are becoming a joke by repeatedly allowing these guys to ignore the law. They need to arrest Rove when he steps foot on American soil plain and simple.

[Kolesar]

117. Writing a letter is more than you have done as political activism

I betcha'

[juajen]

119. How astute of you; as if writing a river of letters has done any good.

The river has been dammed by Karl Rove and his ilk, and until the dam is removed (Bush and Cheney), letter writing is futile. IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH! Yea DENNIS.

[Vinnie From Indy]

145. LOL! Well, while you may BET you know something about me.

I can guarantee your an idiot becuase you are willing to bet about something you have absolutely NO knowledge of. Or, in other words, piss off dumbass!

[Kolesar]

148. Cut and paste a letter you wrote

Would love to see it

[blogslut]

125. Wish I could see that video

But I can't get it to work.

[LeftHander]

126. If they issue a warrant for his arrest while Rove out of country...

he will be arrested upon return, in the airport.

[shanti]

128. well, bohemian grove

starts today! isn't this where all the rich muckey mucks go every year?

[MasonJar]

129. Why did not Rove or his attorney notify the Committee (if this trip is

truly one previously planned) so that the session could be rescheduled? I thought the attorney claimed executive privilege. I think Rove should be picked up on his entrance back into the USA and put in leg irons, just like Seigelman.

[BlueJac]

130. Just another flip off to congress....

nothing will be done, they are probably relieved.

[BonnieJW]

132. Wouldn't that mean

that when he enters the country he will immediately be arrested for contempt if contempt charges are filed?

[nam78_two]

134. How is this legal? Can you leave the country ignoring a subpeona?

How do these people just blatantly do these things :shrug:? They really think the rules don't apply to them.

[Sewsojm]

154. Haven't you heard,

the Rules Don't Apply To Them!!

[Vogon_Glory]

137. Karl Rove: Taco Bell Republican

I'd been hoping for a rash of Bushie insiders and other corrupt Republicans making "runs for the border" as the Boosh regime begins to implode, but after watching House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's timidity, I was afraid that the congressional leadership would continue with their "non-partisan" "let bye-gones be bye-gones" foolishness rather than do what's right for the country. I am quite pleased to see Karl Rove be one of the first "Taco Bell" Republicans.

I hope that House and Senate Democrats will develop some desparately-needed intestinal fortitude and there will be a lot more "Taco Bell" Republicans in the months and years to come.

:grr:

:dem:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

140. It's time for Conyers to suck it up and do what's right

or admit he has no intention of ever following through on all the noise he's been making.

I've had it up to here with this crap. THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SHOW YOUR HEART. GET IT DONE, SIR.

[NewEnglandGirl]

141. At the very least

whenever these 5 days are up he needs to be held for contempt. This is getting worse than ridiculous and if he testifies NOT under oath it will be ludicrous.

:evilfrown:

[NatBurner]

142. hilarious

[BrklynLiberal]

143. I assume he went to Argentina or Brazil, as all the other Nazis did.

[The Stranger]

144. And after that five days, Conyers will give him five more days, and then five more and five more.

Or else. He'll get five more days or else.

[Politicalboi]

153. Now! Now!

Don't you remember that Harriett Meirs testimony. Oh that's right I guess she is on her 200th 5th day.

[Posteritatis]

164. But he'll wait 5 after those 5 before giving him another 5. (nt)

[Myrina]

146. and here I thought 'the grownups were in charge' for the last 8 years

... silly me. How could i have expected them to be responsible and accountable? D'oh!

[Gman]

149. Have Interpol pick him up as a war criminal

Even after Rove gets his pardon in January he'll still be an war criminal and subject to prosecution at the ICC>

[riskpeace]

150. I bet he's at his second house in Rosemary Beach

on Florida's beautiful Emerald Coast.

[Mad_Dem_X]

152. F*cking COWARD!

He needs to be tracked down and punished!

[Zorra]

155. 18 USC CHAPTER 49 - FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE

1073. Flight to avoid prosecution or giving testimony
snip---
Sec. 1073. Flight to avoid prosecution or giving testimony

-STATUTE-
Whoever moves or travels in interstate or foreign commerce with
intent either (1) to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement
after conviction, under the laws of the place from which he flees,
for a crime, or an attempt to commit a crime, punishable by death
or which is a felony under the laws of the place from which the
fugitive flees, or (2) to avoid giving testimony in any criminal
proceedings in such place in which the commission of an offense
punishable by death or which is a felony under the laws of such
place, is charged, or (3) to avoid service of, or contempt
proceedings for alleged disobedience of, lawful process requiring
attendance and the giving of testimony or the production of
documentary evidence before an agency of a State empowered by the
law of such State to conduct investigations of alleged criminal
activities, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than five years, or both. For the purposes of clause (3) of this
paragraph, the term "State" includes a State of the United States,
the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or
possession of the United States.
Violations of this section may be prosecuted only in the Federal
judicial district in which the original crime was alleged to have
been committed, or in which the person was held in custody or
confinement, or in which an avoidance of service of process or a
contempt referred to in clause (3) of the first paragraph of this
section is alleged to have been committed, and only upon formal
approval in writing by the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney
General, the Associate Attorney General, or an Assistant Attorney
General of the United States, which function of approving
prosecutions may not be delegated.

http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/18C49.txt

Does this apply in Rove's case?

Rove may have just committed another very serious felony.

[kmac3]

170. Consequences are the result of breakinglaws . . . .

Flight to avoid prosecution or giving testimony

"Rove may have just committed another very serious felony."

So why don't we cancel his passport, contact the Interpol to have him picked up and held wherever he may have sought asylum.

[Vogon_Glory]

158. Maybe The Dominican Republic?

Maybe Rove went to the Dominican Republic? After all, that was the first stop of deposed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista after he fled Havana in 1959.

:evilgrin:

[Dukkha]

159. Run Rove! Run!

Fucking Coward!

[JohnWxy]

161. RENDITION!! DRAG THE MOTHER-FUCKER BACK IN LEG-IRONS

EVERYBODY, GO TO WWW.CONGRESS.ORG SEND AN EMAIL TO DRAG THE SONOFABITCH BACK IN CHAINS - ATTACHED TO HIS BALLS.

[Thor_MN]

178. Skip the rendition and just render him. Reduce our dependancy on foreign oil

and get rid os world-class a-hole at the same time. Toss Oxy-Rush in the pot and we should be set for the next ten years.

[Mabus]

162. So, Obama and Clinton's passport records were broken into

but we can't find anyone, who can look into Karl's passport records and find out where he went legally?

I remember the days when the media would set up shop on the lawn of people, no matter how tangential, involved with the investigations in the Clinton administration but they can't do it when Bush's Brain is involved? Let's review. The press knew that Monica Lewinski was being subpoenaed and they went nuts. They seemed to have carte blanche as they tracked down everyone that ever knew Monica. There was non-stop talk about breaches of ethics and a public discussion of what the scope of Presidential privileges and culpability were. The media had debates on what the meaning of what "is is" as well as the meaning of "high crimes and misdemeanors" in relationship to a President's non-Executive decision and fitness for the office.

The press has known about Rove and the subpoena. But where are the debates? Where are the cameras following people around and digging into their past? What happened to having hordes of reporters following people around and knowing their every move? What ever happened to the "stained blue dress" press of the '90's? I guess since Russert died the media has lost their connection to Bush's inner circle. Or, they just aren't doing their jobs.

[Posteritatis]

165. Man, I wish *I* had a blanket exemption from all laws. (nt)

[Runcible Spoon]

167. GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE PIG!

It makes me SO FUCKING FURIOUS that some people think they are above the law, and even MORE furious when they are right :cry:

I WANT SOME FUCKING ACCOUNTABILITY IN THIS GODDAMN GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dover]

168. BREAKING...Rove in Stockholm (just in case you missed it)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3599169

[Pierre.Suave]

169. This shit has to stop

Give me the motherfucking Marine Corp. I will stop all this shit in DC, arrest every Motherfucker there, and then take some Force Recon Marines with me and go hunt his ass down...

:mad: THIS SHIT HAS TO STOP!!!!!!!!!!!

If no one there is going to do ANYTHING to protect our Country, our Constitution, and everything else they are supposed to be doing, then GODDAMNIT, WE SHOULD!!!!!!!

[Wizard777]

171. Can we start printing the Bush Administration Most Wanted Playing Cards Again?

[Sheets of Easter]

172. He's a fucking bastard.

[dixiegrrrrl]

173. Fascist Regime problem solved...

All we have to do is get Conyers or Waxman or whoever to subpoena the whole slimy lot of WH and Congress critters, they will run away and ta daaa..
we get the country back.
Be sure to put Pelosi on the list.

[derby378]

175. COWARD!!

Show yourself, Turd Blossom - testify under oath on Capitol Hill!

[FunMe]

176. We now have proof! PIGS really do fly!

FLIGHT RISK rove - can we say perp walk?

[Frisbee]

177. If he choses to ignore the subpoena...

Hold him in contempt, issue an arrest warrant, and if possible, freeze his assets. I'm really curious to see how this plays out. 6 months left, and it looks like *maybe* congress is starting to grow a spine.

[franmarz]

179. That darn KKKarl Rove

He makes me want to :puke:

He needs his ass :kick:

[madeline_con]

181. Is he even eligible for "executive privilege" ?

Or is this just bullshit?

[undergroundpanther]

182. I hope

He is caught and dragged to the Hague.Forced to tell all and it is broadcast on TV,everywhere..
And after that, he is sent back here ,in chains so we can hang him like the traitor he IS.
Rove you are a criminal.You deserve to be dead like a traitor should be according to OUR constitution.Your blood needs to be shed for the tree of liberty to come alive again,you psychopath pig.You deserve every bit of suffering and more, that comes your way. You cannot hide forever turd blossom you will be found, you corrupting stench will give you away...

[tiptoe]

183. He'll try manipulating US Pres Election outcome remotely by PC...then return for a McCain pardon. nt

[Hugabear]

184. Nah, I think that perhaps Thailand is more his style

I hear that repukes just love it over there.