Slow Drip Massacre: Consequences

8:21 pm EST March 1st, 2007 | News | 5 Comments

John ConyersAh, the power of a subpeona.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers today issued subpoenas against certain former U.S. Attorneys who were recently fired by the Bush Administration. The subpoenas were authorized by the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Law (CAL), chaired by Congresswoman Linda Sánchez.

The subpoenas require former U.S. Attorneys David C. Iglesias, Carol Lam, H.E. Cummins, III, and John McKay to appear before a CAL Subcommittee hearing next week.

“The former U.S. Attorneys are alleging very serious charges against the Administration and we need to hear from them,” Chairman Conyers said. “We want to hear their stories and we want the Administration to address the charges head on so that we can get to the bottom of this.”

Indeed.

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5 Responses to “Slow Drip Massacre: Consequences”

  1. Jay says:
    March 1, 2007 at 8:38 pm

    Get to the bottom of what?!?

    How many times does it need to be said? US Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President. He can fire them at any time. For any reason.

    I have to really laugh at the phony outrage of a bunch of Democrats getting weepy over Republican appointed US attorneys.

  2. August J. Pollak says:
    March 1, 2007 at 9:35 pm

    How many times does it need to be said? US Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President

    Well the Republican congress certainly set a precedent of investigating how the President pleasures himself, didn’t they?

  3. Rheinhard says:
    March 1, 2007 at 11:24 pm

    As John suggests, Alberto “Wilhelm Stuckart” Gonzales testified under oath before Congress that none of these firings were politically motivated. Yet here we have one of the suddenly fired attorneys being pressured by Repub. Rep. Heather Wilson & Sen. Pete Domenici to speed up an investigation of a Democratic official just before the November election.

    This should be funny.

  4. August J. Pollak says:
    March 2, 2007 at 8:07 am

    And seriously, Jay, maybe you could tell me- do US Attorneys also get forced by Senators to violate ethics rules at the pleasure of the President?

    Looks like they do. Too bad that’s illegal.

  5. Dugger says:
    March 2, 2007 at 9:42 am

    “Well the Republican congress certainly set a precedent of investigating how the President pleasures himself, didn’t they.”

    Actually no. If you are lazy intellectually and highly partisan, you might think that, though. Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, not for having an affair with a young intern under his power.