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2/29 Two more criminals Bush is sure to pardon: http://www.csua.org/u/kxk \_ You really want to review past Presidential pardons as a troll? That's pretty dull stuff. You can do better than this, Shirley. \_ I guess you are right, crooked Republicans are a dime a dozen these days. |
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www.csua.org/u/kxk -> news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080229/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/congress_contempt_26 AP Mukasey refuses probe of Bush aides By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer Fri Feb 29, 6:41 PM ET WASHINGTON - Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday refused to refer the House's contempt citations against two of President Bush's top aides to a federal grand jury. Click Here Mukasey said White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential counsel Harriet Miers were right in refusing to provide Congress White House documents or testify about the firings of federal prosecutors. "The department will not bring the congressional contempt citations before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute Mr Bolten or Ms Miers," Mukasey wrote House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The House voted two weeks ago to cite Bolten and Mukasey for contempt of Congress and seek a grand jury investigation. Pelosi requested the grand jury investigation on Thursday and gave Mukasey a week to reply. She said the House would file a civil suit seeking enforcement of the contempt citations if federal prosecutors declined to seek misdemeanor charges against Bolten and Miers. But he had earlier joined his predecessor, Alberto Gonzales, in telling lawmakers they would refuse to refer any contempt citations to prosecutors because Bolten and Miers were acting at Bush's instruction. A civil suit would drag out a slow-motion crawl to a constitutional struggle between a Democratic-run Congress and a Republican White House that has been simmering for more than a year. Any court showdown might not occur until Bush is out of office in 14 months. Democrats say Bush's instructions to Miers and Bolten to ignore the House Judiciary Committee's subpoenas was an abuse of power and an effort to block an effort to find out whether the White House directed the firing of nine US attorneys in 2006 for political reasons. Republicans call the whole affair a political game and walked out of the House vote on the contempt citations in protest. The 223-32 House vote on a resolution approving the contempt citations Feb. The White House pointed out that it was the first time that such action had been taken against top White House officials who had been instructed by the president to remain silent to preserve executive privilege. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. |