Bush Blocks Congressional Inquiry on CIA Leak Case

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-16-voa65.cfm

Bush Blocks Congressional Inquiry on CIA Leak Case
By Dan Robinson
Capitol Hill
16 July 2008


Asserting executive privilege, President Bush has refused to comply with a congressional request for documents relating to the leak of the identity of former CIA operative Valerie Wilson. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, a House committee delayed a vote on citing the U.S. attorney general with contempt in connection with the matter:


Attorney General Michael Mukasey communicated the White House position in a letter to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chaired by Democrat Henry Waxman.

The panel had issued a subpoena to compel the Bush administration to give Congress the transcript of an FBI interview with Vice President Dick Cheney, along with other documents.

Majority Democrats have continued to investigate the affair, which involved leaking of the CIA identity of Valerie Plame Wilson, wife of former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, to the media. Joseph Wilson was a key critic of Bush administration justifications for the Iraq war.

[baldguy]

1. Impeach

Exposing the identity of an active CIA agent is treason.

[ladjf]

2. The pummeling continues unabated. Why is Congress helpless

in this matter?

[Juche]

4. They are probably guilty too

And are being blackmailed.

[JerseygirlCT]

5. They're actually not helpless. They just choose not to do

anything about it. This crew has the world's driest powder.

[symbolman]

3. Maybe..

If we ALL turned on our kitchen microwaves at the same time.. We might reach Cheney, and he'd have a change of heart, as in shorting out his Pacemaker..

If ever technology needed to Fail :)

[samplegirl]

6. Because he's innocent

:sarcasm:

[RNdaSilva]

7. I'm becoming more cynical day by day...

[Rex]

8. So George uses his office to hide criminal activtiy in his administration?

:eyes: What a fucking crook.

[noise]

9. Was Executive Privilege intended

to conceal criminal conduct? Was the Presidential pardon designed so corrupt, criminal acts could be waved off by a decree of the President?

I love the way right wing authoritarians hold Bush to an absurdly low level of accountability yet continue to justify giving him dictatorial powers. Power without accountability is basically a dictatorship.

What is with this sickening, pathetic, boot licking worship of a corrupt, unqualified President? Who in their right mind would defend this kind of corruption?