All The President's Men (and Women)-Murray Waas: The Big Stone Wall & Whose Cooperating

[kpete]

All The President's Men (and Women)

Murray Waas has been digging into just how many Bush officials in the waning days of the administration refused to cooperate with the various internal investigations into the politicization of the Justice Department. He's up to at least nine -- not including the GOPers on the Hill who stonewalled, too. In his exclusive report at TPMmuckraker, Waas also gets us up to speed on who may or may not be cooperating with the subsequent criminal probes those investigations spawned.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/02/all_the_presidents_men_and_women.php

The Big Stone Wall: Nine Bush-Era Officials Refused To Cooperate With DOJ Probes
By Murray Waas - February 18, 2009, 11:41AM

At least nine Bush administration officials refused to cooperate with various Justice Department investigations during the final days of the Bush presidency, according to public records and interviews with federal law enforcement officials and many of the officials and their attorneys. In addition, two U.S. senators, a congresswoman, and the chief of staff to one of them, also refused to cooperate with the same investigations.
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Besides the members of Congress, Justice's Inspector General and OPR said that their investigation was severely hampered because of the refusal of numerous Bush White House officials involved in the firings to cooperate with their investigation.

Among those named in the report who refused to cooperate with investigators, the report said, were Former White House political adviser Karl Rove, former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, Deputy White House Counsel William Kelley, and Associate White House Counsel Richard D. Klingler.

So will the four former Bush White House officials now cooperate with Dannehy or testify before the federal grand jury if subpoenaed?

In the case of Rove, his attorney, Robert Luskin, recently told TPMmuckraker that his client will cooperate with the federal criminal investigation underway: "I can say that he would cooperate with the Dannehy investigation if asked," Luskin told me. Luskin said that Rove had not cooperated with the earlier probe by the Inspector General and OPR because he was instructed by the Bush White House counsel's office not to do so.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/_at_least_eleven_bush.php

[bobthedrummer]

1. K&R

[efhmc]

2. Why are these people not subject to arrest/

[glinda]

8. I think they are afraid of the others (Dems, etc) that may be drug into it. I say

CLEAN HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[laststeamtrain]

4. K & R - n/t.

[TahitiNut]

5. Should be "Who's" and not "Whose."

:hide:

[DCKit]

6. Thank Dog for spell check and a decent education through 6th grade...

or you'd be all over my ass.

However, even if others might call you a grammar Nazi, sloppy mistakes too often detract and/or distract from the gist of a post. Being fairly dyslexic, it often takes me three reads to understand what someone is trying to say - Even more when they make multiple mistakes.

You deserve an apple, teacher.

[TahitiNut]

7. I'll never recover from the emotional trauma of high school English.

I live my life in overcompensation Hell. My brain is hard-wired to twitch uncontrollably on homonyms and malapropisms. (It must've been the concussion from the M80 I lit off that day in class.) It's a perpetual embarrassment for a Math & Physics major.