Just Called Conyers Office - Rove & Meiers Will Testify Under Oath...

[global1]

just told this by Conyers people. Perhaps this is what * will be saying in his statement.

[eppur_se_muova]

1. WOODAMNHOO!!

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(edited for gloating)

[babylonsister]

THAT was a quick back-pedal. Makes me wonder what they're up to. nt

[Cooley Hurd]

2. No shit?

I guess Freddy Fielding called 'em back! Fingers are crossed...

[eleny]

3. Yipes!

[Greyskye]

4. Damn I hope they're right!

:kick: :bounce:

[melody]

5. Is Lord Pissypants gonna throw a tantrum or what? lol

:party:

[Eurobabe]

6. Better be f'ing TELEVISED!!!

:popcorn:

[Flarney]

7. If so I might take the day off work! n/t

[Ishoutandscream2]

32. No kidding! I couldn't miss this

Maybe we should make it a national holiday. A sort of civics lesson for the American people (which they so desperately need).

[CrazyOrangeCat]

8. Yowza!!!

:popcorn:

[thereismore]

9. trying to collect my jaw off the floor here. nt

[dardango]

10. A Sucker's Deal

If the Dems go for that I got a bridge to nowhere to sell them!


DemocracyInteractive.com

[Oreo]

11. Reid just said the same

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x457486

“After telling a bunch of different stories about why they fired the U.S. Attorneys, the Bush Administration is not entitled to the benefit of the doubt. Congress and the American people deserve a straight answer. If Karl Rove plans to tell the truth, he has nothing to fear from being under oath like any other witness.”

[eleny]

13. Gave you a k&r, too

It's an amazing day. Thanks!

[Vinca]

12. Under oath with bags on their heads or in the public eye?? nt

[burf]

14. I would prefer

that they would waterboard Rove and Gonzales asses. Let them sing like canaries! After all, weren't we told that waterboarding is just another interrogation technique? As long as there is no major organ failure. It would eliminate all this pesky swearing in and such.

[MsMagnificent]

19. Waterboard AND under oath!

[laugle]

15. Well.....it's about time we get those

bastards under oath!!

I wonder if they will be pleading the 5th........

Do you know if there will be transcripts?

I can't wait to see Rove squirm in the hot seat!!

The dems had better make good use of this opportunity--they may not get many chances........

[Orangepeel]

16. No way. Are you sure that Conyers office didn't say that Dems won't accept the deal?

The White House will claim executive privilege.

Conyers' office has the power to subpoena, but he doesn't have the authority to physically haul them in or have them arrested.

[BR_Parkway]

28. Contempt of Congress

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

<snip>

From time to time, Congress lodges contempt of Congress charges against members of the United States government, usually members of the executive branch of the United States who claim that releasing their records to a committee would cause more harm than good, or sometimes that the records are protected by executive privilege and must remain secret. This can put the executive branch in an unusual ethical position, since the executive branch employs the United States Attorney, who decides whether to bring cases of contempt of Congress to the grand jury. In addition, it is often the United States Attorney who advises executive branch members in the first place whether to withhold controversial documents or provide them to the congressional committees.

For example, Henry Kissinger, James Watt, and Janet Reno have all been cited by Congress for contempt, though in all these cases the Congress and the executive branch subsequently reached an agreement on the delivery of documents before the matter reached a grand jury. In cases involving delivery of documents, Congress currently seems to view contempt of Congress as a tool to reach an agreement with the executive branch, rather than as a law to punish the contemptuous.

[RestoreGore]

17. Do people really think they won't lie under oath?

How gullible are people? If these bastards cared about oaths we wouldn't be in Iraq in the first place. Under oath... big whoop.

[wryter2000]

20. Sure...

But if we catch them in a lie, they get charged with perjury. Not as good as getting the truth, but pretty satisfying, nevertheless.

What we need is testimony from good guys (and/or bad guys protecting their own butts) to prove they're lying. If you watched the Valerie Plame Wilson hearing last week, you saw how it's done.

[RestoreGore]

27. yeah, I know how it's done

And again, big whoop.

[electron_blue]

29. I'm with you. Perhaps we can hope that they're only

asking them to testify under oath bcs they can prove they're lying if they do lie, and then get them on perjury. But of course, proving perjury is only worth it if it has teeth.

[IsItJustMe]

31. no, they may very well lie; but there is a thing called perjury.

[kestrel91316]

18. You DO realize that they will just testify that they remember NOTHING

of any importance.......

[ourvoicescount]

35. True, but that didn't help Scooter much in the end...

[global1]

21. Thanks For All The Support On This Post - But I'm A Bit Perplexed At The Info That Was Given To Me..

by Conyer's office. When I called to tell them that I wanted to voice my opinion that the Dems should subpoena and push for Rove & Miers to testify under oath and in public - I was told that they just got the call that that was going to happen.

I don't know who to believe now - because I just listened to *'s statement and he indicated that he will fight subpoena's.

So I apologize for misleading you here with my post - but - that's what I was told by Conyer's office person.

I guess now we'll just have to see how this plays out. Could there be something going on behind the scenes?

[Auntie Bush]

25. Definitely! (Something going on behind the scenes) n/t

[Orangepeel]

26. No worries. It was a game of telephone.

Conyers' staff was probably told that the deal offered by the Whitehouse was unacceptable and that the committee would issue subpoenas to make them testify and they got confused.

[heatstreak]

22. kick

[Clarkie1]

23. They won't unless the Supreme Court forces them. nt

[skooooo]

24. WOOT!

:bounce:

I hope they are right.

[IsItJustMe]

dup

[hayu_lol]

33. Geez, ya suppose that Miers and Rove will be able to...

sit together and hold hands the way that Bush/Cheney did?

The world wonders.

[IsItJustMe]

30. If this is true I can almost guarantee you the devil will be in the details of the arrangement. eom

[ourvoicescount]

34. Outstanding!