Comments on: Presidential Scholar Confronts President on Torture http://blogs.positiveuniverse.com/archives/1356 A space for *public* sharing on Positive Universe Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:02:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: connie http://blogs.positiveuniverse.com/archives/1356#comment-8127 connie Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:24:46 +0000 http://blogs.positiveuniverse.com/archives/1356#comment-8127 If this young scholer can confidently confront the president, why not the rest of us? Let's call all senators with a prayer of supporting confrontation on several key issues including on the subpoenas to probe the Attorney dismissals in the strong hope the Senate Judicial Committee doesn't hesitate! Will Senate Judiciary Comm. Panel Hold Bush Admin. in Contempt of Congress? July 02 07 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Leahy Threatens Contempt Citations Over US Attorney Probe Subphoenas Congressional Quarterly Midday July 02 07 Just In Congressional Quartly Midday Update http://public.cq.com/docs/cqm/cqmidday110-000002544954.html The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he is prepared to ask the panel to hold the Bush administration in contempt of Congress if officials continue to defy subpoenas issued seeking documents related to the dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys. “If they don’t cooperate, yes, I’d go that far,â€? said Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., said yesterday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.â€? President Bush asserted executive privilege June 28 over White House records related to the dismissals. In a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary committees, White House counsel Fred F. Fielding said Bush also is prepared to assert the privilege to prevent two former senior White House aides from testifying in the matter. Leahy said his panel would determine if the executive privilege claim is valid before proceeding. “Based on the court cases,â€? he said, that appears doubtful. The House and Senate Judiciary committees on June 13 ordered White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten to produce documents related to the firings by June 28. The House panel also subpoenaed former White House counsel Harriet Miers to produce documents and appear before the panel’s Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee on July 12. The Senate panel also subpoenaed former White House aide Sara M. Taylor to produce documents and testify on July 11. Source: CQ Today Midday Update Political Clippings compiled from BNN Frontrunner and CQ Politics.com. © 2007 Congressional Quarterly Inc. All Rights Reserved. If this young scholer can confidently confront the president, why not the rest of us? Let’s call all senators with a prayer of supporting confrontation on several key issues including on the subpoenas to probe the Attorney dismissals in the strong hope the Senate Judicial Committee doesn’t hesitate! Will Senate Judiciary Comm. Panel Hold Bush Admin. in Contempt of Congress? July 02 07

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Leahy Threatens Contempt Citations Over US Attorney Probe Subphoenas Congressional Quarterly Midday July 02 07

Just In Congressional Quartly Midday Update

http://public.cq.com/docs/cqm/cqmidday110-000002544954.html

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he is prepared to ask the panel to hold the Bush administration in contempt of Congress if officials continue to defy subpoenas issued seeking documents related to the dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys.

“If they don’t cooperate, yes, I’d go that far,� said Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., said yesterday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.�

President Bush asserted executive privilege June 28 over White House records related to the dismissals. In a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary committees, White House counsel Fred F. Fielding said Bush also is prepared to assert the privilege to prevent two former senior White House aides from testifying in the matter.

Leahy said his panel would determine if the executive privilege claim is valid before proceeding. “Based on the court cases,� he said, that appears doubtful.

The House and Senate Judiciary committees on June 13 ordered White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten to produce documents related to the firings by June 28.

The House panel also subpoenaed former White House counsel Harriet Miers to produce documents and appear before the panel’s Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee on July 12.

The Senate panel also subpoenaed former White House aide Sara M. Taylor to produce documents and testify on July 11.

Source: CQ Today Midday Update Political Clippings compiled from BNN Frontrunner and CQ Politics.com. © 2007 Congressional Quarterly Inc. All Rights Reserved.

]]> By: Roland Hardy http://blogs.positiveuniverse.com/archives/1356#comment-8098 Roland Hardy Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:01:09 +0000 http://blogs.positiveuniverse.com/archives/1356#comment-8098 Just as it was starting to look like the coming generation was condemned to eke out an existence under the dark skies of fascism as an underclass things like this occur & give me hope for the future. Also check out this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/washington/27poll.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin. Peace, Roland Hardy Just as it was starting to look like the coming generation was condemned to eke out an existence under the dark skies of fascism as an underclass things like this occur & give me hope for the future. Also check out this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/washington/27poll.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin. Peace, Roland Hardy

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