Memo: Rove's Ex-Aide Ralston Would Talk If Given Immunity

[Hissyspit]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/23/rove.aide

Memo: Rove's ex-aide would talk if given immunity
POSTED: 7:42 a.m. EDT, May 23, 2007

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Susan Ralston, a former top assistant to President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove, is willing to tell Congress what she knows about contacts between White House officials and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- but only if she's granted immunity from prosecution, her lawyer has told congressional investigators.

During a May 10 deposition with Ralston, her attorney, Bradford Berenson, told investigators for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that she "has material, useful information" about contacts between Abramoff and his associates and White House officials, according to a memo sent to committee members Tuesday by the committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California.

Berenson also said Ralston has useful information about the use of outside Republican National Committee e-mail accounts by White House staffers, which is also the subject of a congressional probe, according to the memo. However, Ralston will only be "comfortable going forward" if she is given a grant of immunity, Berenson told investigators, according to the memo.

In his memo, Waxman told his colleagues that before considering Ralston's immunity request, "the committee should seek to obtain information about the relationship between Mr. Abramoff and the White House from other sources."

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[DS1]

1. Perhaps it's time they got a taste of their own medicine.

Rendition.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. This better not be another fake-out like Monica Goodling.

No immunity unless real "stuff" that damns Rove is offered and substantiated.

[Buzz Clik]

3. Very true. I'm assuming that she's as incompetent a lawyer as she was an incompetent witness.

[bobthedrummer]

4. Alice S. Fisher is still hanging in the Gonzales DoJ Criminal Division

Alice S. Fisher was a HCA lobbyist before getting into the DoJ, Alice S. Fisher is ok with torture, Alice S. Fisher was mentored by Michael Chertoff, she helped the Tom DeLay defense team, Alice S. Fisher was a recess appointment made by the Decider, Alice S. Fisher, despite objections, was put into the lead position of the Jack Abramoff case and Alice S. Fisher was the co-chair (along with her pal Paul McNulty) of the National Procurement Fraud Task Force-that prosecutes companies that Lurita Doan's GSA approved...

Source Watch Alice S. Fisher profile
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alice_S._Fisher

Getting back to Susan Bonzon Ralston, and the Rove criminal alternative communications systems she was part of, what would she say about Alice S. Fisher???

[Frustratedlady]

5. Will she also answer questions about the 2004 election counts?

Everytime I see her name, I think of that photo of her and Rove and their confident looks.

[swimmernsecretsea]

6. Well, then give him immunity!

I'm tired of this stonewalling. Somebody has to start talking!

[bottomofthehill]

7. Fuck That, Charge Her....

And let her cut the best deal she can in a plea bargain.

[Generic Brad]

14. You've got that right

If she has done nothing wrong, then she doesn't need immunity. The very act of requesting immunity from prosecution screams to me that she was knowingly involved in crimes. For that reason alone, she deserves no breaks.

[rumpel]

8. A big k&r n/t

[bobthedrummer]

9. Cross-post "A DU criminal investigation thread: Bush's White House Staff"

take a little time this weekend and participate in this thread-a variation has also been opened in the Research Forum.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1020760

[bleever]

10. This particular pig in a poke is worth it. Give her immunity.

Punishing her would only reinforce the firewall she serves as, protecting the real malefactors.

[bobthedrummer]

11. "A DU collaborative investigation: Thelma Colbert, Shannon Ross and other deaths at DoJ"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x847120

Why would anyone be afraid of immunity, unless they helped people get away with murder?

[whistle]

12. Rolston would repeat "I can't remember....I don't recall...I don't know!"

[L. Coyote]

13. EXIT RIGHT. Sara Taylor, WH political director, Rove Aide RESIGNS? "subpoenas for her testimony"

Compilation Thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x990202

[bobthedrummer]

15. Memory kick-Dan Bartlett once "worked" for Karl Rove & Associates

Monica Goodling, Susan Ralston, Paul McNulty, Sara Taylor, J.D. Crouch, Meghan O'Sullivan, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, George Tenet, Porter Goss, Tom DeLay, Mark Foley, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, L. "Scooter" Libby, Colin Powell, Grover Norquist, Bob Ney, Harriet Miers and many, many others all served at the pleasure of someone or something