June 28, 2007
The White House’s Rejection Of Senate Subpoenas Over Eavesdropping Program
- Alberto Gonzales
- U.S. Attorney Firings
- White House
- Dept. of Justice
- Senate Judiciary Committee
- Karl Rove
- Harriet Miers
- Pres. George W. Bush
- White House Counsel
- Gonzales Supboena
- Dick Cheney
- James Comey
- Domestic Surveillance Program
- White House Subpoena
Unfortunately, the response was predictable.
The subpoenas that the Senate Judiciary Committee served on the White House, Dick Cheney, National Security Council, and Dept. of Justice were rejected by the White House within less than twenty-four hours.
The Committee’s latest subpoenas were preceded by similar subpoenas that it served on former White House and Justice Department officials:
* A subpoena was issued by the Committee on June 13, 2007 to former White House Counsel Harriet Miers over the U.S. Attorney firings debacle. Miers was givien a July 12, 2007 deadline to comply with the subpoena.
* The Committee served a subpoena on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on May 2, 2007 when he failed to comply with its repeated requests for turning over correspondence (e-mail, etc.) involving White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and his use of non-White House e-mail to conduct goverment business.
The latest legal battle stems from the revelation by former Deputy Attorney General James Comey that Gonzales tried (unsuccessfully) to ram-rod a very ill Attorney General John Ashcroft into extending warrantless domestic surveillance just after Justice Department officials had concluded that it was unconstitutional.
Youc an re-examine Comey’s testimony here:
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