Harriet Miers to be questioned by Congress about the U.S. attorney scandal

[stonebone]

A congressional investigation into the firings of eight U.S. attorneys reached into the White House on Friday, with Democrats saying that they'll call in President Bush's former counsel Harriet Miers and other unidentified White House officials for interviews with the House Judiciary Committee.

Lawmakers have been asking whether the federal prosecutors' offices have become tainted by partisan politics. Until Friday, the official inquiry had ended with the Justice Department. The decision to extend the inquiry to Bush's inner circle suggests that lawmakers think there may have been some level of coordination of the firings from inside the White House in December.

Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., and Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., chairwoman of the subcommittee directing the inquiry, sent a letter Friday to Miers, a longtime Bush loyalist who left her post in January, requesting that she submit to an interview.

"Until we get a clear and credible answer from the Bush administration on who made the decision to fire these U.S. attorneys and why they did it, we will continue our investigation," Conyers said in a statement.

Sanchez said: "The threshold for cooperation in Washington used to be 'Trust, but verify.' We are sending these letters today because, at this point, we'd be happy just to verify."



http://www.newsobserver.com/114/story/551836.html

[MADem]

1. She better make a run for the border....! NT

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Oh, I really hope...

They leave her trembling, sweating and twitching. The highlights of her testimony promise to be classics. They are gonna tie her into more knots than you learn at The Coast Guard Academy.

[grasswire]

3. under oath?

if not, why not?

[orleans]

4. (the third wife! ha!) n/t

[SoCalDem]

5. Oh Lordy.. Poor little Miss Mouse

She better apply the Super-Duper Heavy Duty Water-proof Maybelline Eyeliner..Somebody on the panel will make her cry for sure..
Perhaps she needs some coaching from Mrs. Alito :)

[LiberalFighter]

6. Maybe they should offer her adult diapers to wear while being questioned

[SoCalDem]

7. Anybody got NASA on speed-dial?

[LiberalFighter]

8. NASA has to be experts with long term body waste elimination