Conyers Get's Ready to Subpoena Attorney General Michael Mukasy!

[KoKo]

House Judiciary Committee Gets Ready To Subpoena Mukasey
By Andrew Tilghman - June 26, 2008, 5:16PM

It looks like the House Judiciary Committee will finally play hardball with Attorney General Michael Mukasey.

Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI) has been requesting a range of documents from DOJ for a long time. Some of the issues date back as far as Election Day 2002, when Republicans in New Hampshire jammed the phone lines for a Democratic get-out-the-vote call bank, an effort one GOP operative said was modeled on the U.S. Marines tactic of jamming the enemies communications.

Now Conyers has the authority to subpoena that stack of records after the subcommittee on commercial and administrative law took a vote today and gave him the formal go-ahead.

They're looking for records of interviews from the DOJ investigation into who leaked the identify of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, documents that may shed light on allegations of selective prosecution, and the details behind the replacement of Minnesota's U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose. The committee is also requesting Office of Legal Counsel memos and enforcement reports from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.

Speaking of the Civil Rights Division, Conyers and several other lawmakers today sent a letter to Mukasey urging stop stonewalling a GAO investigation of the Civil Rights Division. Amid allegations that political pressures were shifting the division's priorities, Congress in March 2007 requested the Government Accountability Office conduct an investigation. Lawmakers say DOJ has not provided the documents and data needed to fully analyze the division's enforcement work.

The lawmakers also said they had "received reports that DOJ officials have removed key documents from files, claiming that GAO does not have a right to access predecisional or deliberative information that sets forth the Division's rationale on whether or not to pursue a case."

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[annabanana]

1. There's only one way he's going to be able to do this.

And that is inherent contempt.

Is the Sargent at Arms ARMED these days?

[KoKo]

2. "They" don't seem to ever want to "touch" or "enforce" that on...I guess it's about the election.

It's always about "the election"...every two years...it's one year of grace and the next year about "the election."

John Dean advocated "Inherent Contempt" years ago. And, Congress Shills threw it to the Courts who just "bounced it back" on them.

:shrug: Spineless, Complicit or Clueless. Who knows?

[Middle finga]

3. What a joke the dems are, Mukasy will just toss your subpoena in

the garbage and the dems won't do shit about it. They seem to be only thinking about the next election. Why do the dems even want to be in charge of congress if they are too afraid to hold Bush accountable, if they were in the minority at least they would have an excuse for their inaction. Conyers has waited years for the chairmanship and what the hell do he have to show for it.

[grasswire]

4. that's what Pat Buchanan said.

He said that Rove would just hang the subpoena on the wall and have a good laugh.

[L. Coyote]

7. "what the hell do he have to show for it." ? I don't have enough time to list it all!

But, you should know yourself if you have been awake since Jan. 2006.

[madrchsod]

5. "impeachment is off the table"

we will have to wait until after the election.
if there is time we`ll look into the past 8 years of the rape of our constitution....

[L. Coyote]

6. K & R & Impeach two too

[Riddler]

8. Oh goody. Another dog and pony show without the dog or pony.