Bybee refuses to respond to Leahy’s testimony invitation.

[babylonsister]

What a surprise.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/01/bybee-no-response-leahy/

Bybee refuses to respond to Leahy’s testimony invitation.


On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) sent a letter to Judge Jay Bybee inviting him to testify about his “views” about torture and his “role” in drafting the torture memos. In the letter, Leahy wrote, "I look forward to your cooperation and your testimony." But the Los Angeles Times reports today that Bybee has "declined to respond" to Leahy's letter. Bybee's law clerks initially gave contradictory messages about how the judge would respond, but law clerk Keith Woffinden tried to clean up the confusion, telling the paper, "my impression is that there won't be any further statements" beyond Bybee's comments to the New York Times.

[VWolf]

1. Strongly worded letter time? n/t

[The Magistrate]

2. Sounds Like Subpoena Time, Ma'am....

This wretch needs to impeached.

[truebrit71]

4. Abso-frickin-lutely...I am so tired of these rethuglicans behaving as though they are untouchable...

...one would hope that refusing to honour a congressional subpoena would be grounds for impeachment...

[bdamomma]

3. not responding ?????

not too guilty there Judge Bybee???

[BlooInBloo]

5. I wonder if Leahy has been taking Conyer's Sternly Worder Letter writing class?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. Rare to subpoena a sitting judge and harder still to impeach them. Next to impossible if the

conduct did not happen which they were on the bench. Stuff before confirmation should have been dealt with during confirmation, otherwise the precedent set will be horrific.