March 5, 2009
News reports indicate that all parties – former President Bush, the Obama administration, the House Judiciary Committee, and the witnesses themselves – have reached an agreement under which Karl Rove and Harriet Miers will give testimony to the Committee regarding the U.S. Attorney scandal. The key sticking point had been "executive privilege." The Committee [...]
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January 30, 2009
Michael Isikoff of Newsweek reports that George W. Bush's attorney Fred Fielding has written Karl Rove's attorney a letter instructing Rove not to respond to subpoenas issued by the House Judiciary Committee. The Committee recently reissued those subpoenas seeking information about whether the firing of U.S. Attorneys in December, 2006, was for political purposes, possibly [...]
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