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by QuestionGirl • 11:29 am
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic-led congressional panel defied President George W. Bush on Wednesday and authorized legal orders to force several White House aides to testify under oath about the firing of eight U.S. prosecutors.
Heading toward a showdown with the Bush administration, a House of Representatives Judiciary subcommittee voted to authorize subpoenas if Karl Rove, Bush’s senior political adviser, and others refuse to testify voluntarily under oath.
The action came a day after Bush vowed to oppose any subpoenas. He offered instead to allow aides to answer questions from investigators, but only behind closed doors, not under oath and with no transcript taken of their exchanges. Several Democrats called the offer unacceptable.
Source: Reuters
From TPM today:
I think a commenter in our document dump research thread may have been the first to notice that the emails released by the Justice Department seem to have a gap between November 15th and December 4th of last year.
(Our commenter saw it late on the evening of the dump itself — see the comment date’stamped March 20, 2007 02:19 AM in the research thread)
The firing calls went out on December 7th. But the original plan was to start placing the calls on November 15th. So those eighteen days are pretty key ones.
Mike Allen spotted it this evening in the Politico.
Filed: Congressional Hearings
