TurdBlossom watch: Rove is due before the Judicial Committee in two minutes

[IDemo]

Will he appear? Not seeing anything on the news yet..

[jtrockville]

1. Is he scheduled to appear before the house judiciary committee?

I checked their legislative calendar. It says "No hearings are scheduled today".
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/caltoday.html

[ThomWV]

5. Its a deposition

[jtrockville]

13. Is it supposed to be "behind closed doors"?

[ThomWV]

17. Might be, not sure - what I do know is that they normally aren't reported on

[jtrockville]

20. So we may never know whether or not Rove showed up?

I can make a guess. If the past is prologue Rove won't show up. The penalty for not showing up the last two times was nada. Not much risk in skipping out again.

Still, I'd like confirmation.

[IDemo]

7. That's what the subpoena said

http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/RoveSubpoena090126.pdf

Although there had been some talk of a delay a couple of weeks ago, I have seen nothing solid on that since.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. See if he's on Fox and Friends this morning

. . . on camera, thumbing his nose.

[ThomWV]

6. Its a 3 minute walk from the FOX studio in DC to the Capital building

Flip on C-Span and look out the window in back of the moderator on the morning show. See how close the Capital is? FOX and C-Span are located in the same building.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. That makes it a short walk for the Sergeant at Arms, doesn't it?

[ThomWV]

11. One can only hope.

[snappyturtle]

3. I know. We've been looking for 'anything' about this and came up with

zilch...which isn't surprising. Nothing on C-Span.

[bdamomma]

4. if he doesn't show up he should be just arrested.

enough of this POS thumbing his nose to the Committee.

[IDemo]

9. There was a court brief filed last Monday (by the Obama administration??) for a delay

Michael Hertz, the acting assistant attorney general, said in a court brief released Monday that negotiations were ongoing.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/62290.html

[gratuitous]

19. What "negotiations," I wonder?

What is there to negotiate beyond "I swear" or "I affirm" to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Is Karl trying to negotiate about what the truth is? Sounds like another famous personage, who pondered "What is truth?"

Don't worry, assembled masses of DU, the Freeperati won't know that I am of course talking about Pontius Pilate. But do keep in mind that Pilate was a governor, and Jesus was a community organizer. Hee, hee, hee.

[Ilsa]

10. My CSPAN2 is showing Gore and T.Boone Pickens at an Energy

Efficiency & the Economy Forum, to begin any minute. Tim Worth, UN Foundation president, is hosting. Maybe they'll switch.

Washington Journal on CSPAN 1 is interviewing Gov Sanford, SC, at the governors forum.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

12. Make it so!

[rateyes]

14. Conyers issued the subpoena...

Therefore, it probably won't be enforced.

[rateyes]

15. Conyers isn't even in Washington DC at the moment...

just found out from the person answering the phone in his office. On his way from his district right now. I guess that answers the question.

[IDemo]

16. Looks like nothing scheduled until Wednesday

http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/legislation11.html

[radfringe]

24. Glad I wasn't holding my breath....

won't be holding it on wednesday either ....

[Seeking Serenity]

18. It's (just) a deposition, people.

It's not open testimony before the full committee.

While it is sworn testimony, it will be just Rove, his attorney(s), the committee's attorneys, and a court reporter.

Nothing to get all foamy about. Not yet anyway.

[jtrockville]

21. Are you sure?

Seems to me it will be the just committee's attorneys and a court reporter.

[Seeking Serenity]

22. Usually, according to DH, and at least 'round here, the deponent's attorney

is in the room with him, but his role is extremely limited. No coaching answers, no talking much at all, except to raise objections to certain questions (which the deponent still has to answer, but the objection was made on the record). It's not like grand jury testimony, where the witness goes in all alone.

Maybe congressional committee depositions are different. I really don't know.

[jtrockville]

23. Even if the deponent is a no-show?