Conyers: 'We're closing in on Rove'

[NYCGirl]

Go get 'em, John!

From Politico's "The Crypt":

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0508/Conyers_Were_closing_in_on_Rove.html

Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two other people: “We’re closing in on Rove. Someone’s got to kick his ass.”

Asked a few minutes later for a more official explanation, Conyers told us that Rove has a week to appear before his committee. If he doesn’t, said Conyers, “We’ll do what any self-respecting committee would do. We’d hold him in contempt. Either that or go and have him arrested.”

Conyers said the committee wants Rove to testify about his role in the imprisonment of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, among other things.

“We want him for so many things, it’s hard to keep track,” Conyers said.

[JuniperLea]

1. They better wrap up all those investigations very quickly!

Obama has already said he will only prosecute on existing information, so I wouldn't count oh him approving any additional investigation of BushCo. The time is now!

[annabanana]

6. The "existing information" is standing in mountains there in DC. . n/t

[JuniperLea]

13. The "existing information" is only what BushCo has allowed to be gathered

The official investigations... of themselves... that's all "we" have right now. That's why it's very important for Conyers, et al, to get the lead out and wrap this stuff up!

[Wizard777]

28. When did he say that?

[JuniperLea]

32. During one of the big speeches...

It was posted here on DU. I'm not sure how you'd Google that one up. He was asked point blank if he was going to prosecute the Bush administration, and that was his response.


Here you go:

Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race -- and that is whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House.

Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."


http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Barack_on_torture.html


I just Googled: obama prosecute bush administration

It's all over the place.

[sandnsea]

34. Stop fucking lying, just stop it

He said he would not use the office of the Presidency to initiate investigations, that he expected the AG and any other agency to follow the evidence.

[JuniperLea]

35. You should stop it

Here you go:

Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race -- and that is whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House.

Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."


http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Barack_on_t...

[sandnsea]

37. Yeah, follow the evidence,

Determine where a FULL INQUIRY is warranted, which would mean MORE EVIDENCE. Not use the Presidency to launch a partisan witch hunt. He did not say he wasn't going to investigate anything. It's time to stop the primary propaganda which has been nothing but a pack of lies.

[JuniperLea]

38. Right, full inquiry... based on the evidence already at hand...

nothing more...

[sandnsea]

40. What do you think you get in a FULL INQUIRY???

More goddamn evidence.

[JuniperLea]

41. Based on the evidence...

How much of an inquiry can there be based on evidence BushCo has allowed to become official?

Jeez.

[sandnsea]

45. It only takes one piece

to decide a full inquiry is needed. Are you going to stop with the lies against Obama now?

[JuniperLea]

46. I'm not lying against Obama... get a fucking grip

I'm quoting him. There is a difference.


And if you think BushCo has allowed any evidence of their own crimes to remain in the official evidence, you are dreaming.

"The information that is already there" = Obama's own words. Now, tell me how much incriminating evidence you think BushCo is allowing to remain in the official information that is already there.

[sandnsea]

47. You do it every day

And have for a long time. You are not quoting him, you're lying about what he said. Just like the lies about his stance on choice and health care and NAFTA and a hundred other lies that the Clinton campaign has misinformed their voters about. He's the nominee, it's time for you to either recognize you've been spinning campaign propaganda, shut up, or go join McCain.

[JuniperLea]

48. You just have no clue whatsoever, do you?

I am not now, nor have I ever been a Hillary supporter.

[sandnsea]

49. Yeah you keep saying that

and then turn around and attack Obama with every lame-ass Clinton piece of slime that exists.

[JuniperLea]

50. Oh bullshit

I only attack lies and hate.

I'm quoting Obama, so how can I be lying? I never even heard another DUer bring this point up, much less a Clinton supporter!

Some of us do have minds of our own. Many of us have never joined either candidate's camp. I've never been much of a follower, or a parrot-er. I prefer to think for myself... which may explain my aversion to the hysteria here over BOTH candidates. Neither is worthy of MY hysteria, neither has inspired me in the slightest.

I'm only voting for the Democrat because he's a Democrat.

[sandnsea]

52. Anybody can read the quote

If you want to continue to distort it, you only make a fool of yourself. Have at it. Bye.

[JuniperLea]

53. It's a straight quote

No distortion. Obama's words. Bye.

[eleny]

2. Naturally, I'm for the "arrest" option

[populistdriven]

5. too bad torture isnt legal,,,, oh wait!

[ixion]

7. yep... frog walk that assclown all the way to the Hague

[Mira]

14. time to re-insert a favorite photo....

[eleny]

20. absolutely! especially the one with the wet spot

choice!

[Wizard777]

29. Now that is museum quailty art.

That should be hanging in the Smithsonian. I won't say where Rove should be hanging.

[Kaleko]

31. If it's in his closet,

I want him OUT. Public domain and all that, you know?

[Hydra]

3. Here's to crossed fingers

But this is also the guy that said impeachment was not off the table.

Less talk, more action!

[annabanana]

4. Does that sound to you like he's considering

inherent contempt?

Dare I dream?

[burythehatchet]

11. Wexler specifically listed that as an option if he refuses to come in.

I will take a day off from work to watch that frog march.

[ClayZ]

8. I prefer the Perp Walk!

K and R

[KansDem]

9. "Someone's got to kick his ass." Now, that's not a very nice thing to say!

:rofl:

...but keep saying it, John!

[acmavm]

10. Yeah, right.

[Aviation Pro]

12. Take the fucker down....

...while President Insane is being feted in the ME. Get used to it, you dribble of waste from your wimpy daddy's nutsack.

[mzmolly]

15. " Someone’s got to kick his ass."

And, I want ring side tickets to that show!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

16. I want to see him handcuffed and led away

while Rep. Conyers tells the press, "No man is above the law."

[Kaleko]

39. Is it wrong of me

to fervently pray for this once a day?

[seemslikeadream]

17. go and have him arrested

[gateley]

18. I need some education, please.

I just Googled Rove arrest and learned this pic is fake (damn!). I'd always thought it was real.

It occurred to me I don't know WHY Rove was arrested -- or even if he really was? So I'm swallowing my embarrassed ignorance and turning to you, my DU Wise People, to enlighten me.

Thank you!

[eleny]

21. Here, this article will explain it all

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/05/cia.leak/index.html

[gateley]

22. Thank you! nt

[CanonRay]

19. Please, oh please arrest him.

I believe that a video of Rove in handcuffs being led away will cause me to have an instant orgasm.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

23. A day that will live in infamy...

[BonnieJW]

24. I'll believe it when I see it.

I've heard this so many times and I'm really sick of it. All I've seen is a lot of noise and nothing more.

[Individualist]

26. Conyers is like Lucy in the Peanuts comic strip

He's held out the football and yanked it away so many times that you'd think no one would fall for that trick anymore. :shrug:

[Blue_In_AK]

25. While I'd like to see Karl, et al. arrested as much as anybody

I'm a bit concerned that if legal actions are brought before ** is out of office, he'll just pardon them all. And then my other fear is that Obama, in an effort to "bring us all together" (since that has been his stated goal) will just let the criminals slide.

I've said it before and I'll say it again -- if WE as a nation don't bring these criminals to justice, we'll never be able to claim moral authority again on the world stage.

[bdamomma]

27. why don't they make it easier for themselves and indict them all.

wishful thinking, they do have the POWER to do it!!

[Golden Raisin]

30. Stop talking and do it.

Conyers, Pelosi and Co. are all talk and zero action. Meanwhile Rove and BushCo have publicly raped the Constitution for the last 7 years. This Congress is a disgrace.

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[T Monk]

36. it'd be nice to see him thrown in a hog sty with hungry hogs

[SoCalDem]

42. Shhhhhh!!! Shame on you John

I wish these people would STFU and just DO the investigations..

Tipping the "perps" off is not the best way to CATCH them :grr:

I swear.. dems in high places suffer from "we're-a-gonna" disease..

[Disturbed]

44. Rep. Conyers needs to stop threatening & issue

the Inherent Contempt Warrant if Rove doesn't show up as ordered!

[JerseygirlCT]

43. I vote for "go and have him arrested". nt

[flpoljunkie]

51. Karl Rove ought to be in a cell, rather than writing for the WSJ and working for Faux News!

Go, Chairman Conyers!

[Independent_Liberal]

54. Come on Conyers! Let's get the show on the road!

[Kablooie]

55. Being held in contempt doesn't sound like closing in to me.

He is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

If there are no physical repercussions, ie. imprisonment, they might as well just do nothing.

And I have absolutely NO expectation of anything happening except some vacuous declaration of contempt which is easy to declare and has no meaning to anyone.


Rove has walked over them before and they let him. Why should now be any different?