From the Judiciary Committee:
Conyers Subpoenas Karl Rove (Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) issued a subpoena to former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove for testimony about the politicization of the Department of Justice (DOJ), including former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman’s case. Yesterday, Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin, sent a letter to the Committee expressing that Rove would not agree to testify voluntarily, per the Committee’s previous requests.
“It is unfortunate that Mr. Rove has failed to cooperate with our requests,” Conyers said. “Although he does not seem the least bit hesitant to discuss these very issues weekly on cable television and in the print news media, Mr. Rove and his attorney have apparently concluded that a public hearing room would not be appropriate. Unfortunately, I have no choice today but to compel his testimony on these very important matters.”
Separately, Chairman Conyers recently received a letter from DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) indicating that the office has opened an investigation into allegations of selective prosecution of Siegelman and others.
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YAY!
Champagne!!
‘BOUT TIME!
Time to watch “little piggy” get his due.
Let the games begin!
Oh the day has reckoned that turd-de-blossom will pay the piper!
Finally! Perhaps it is just as good the dem’s waited a bit doing this.. this process will be soo cool to have to help Obama in his fight for the white house :)
YES!!!!! AND I GET OUT OF SCHOOL TODAY!!! LET SUMMER BEGIN!!!
He shouldn’t be able to claim executive privilege for this one. If he doesn’t show, send the powers that be to throw him in that jail in the basement.
C&L should Photoshop all but his middle finger out of that pic above, because that’s what The Big Turd is going to do with the subpoena.
Conyers is a great American. What ever happened to the court filing against the others who cited executive privilege for not appearing? It seems there should be a more expeditious way…
Good news all the same. Giggidy.
Don’t know how far it will go but just the fact it’s started is absolutely freakin’ amazing!! Let the good times roll!!!!!
stick the pig!
I hope they finally tag this fucker for SOMETHING, anything at this point.
Is this a subpoena?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jywejzlr4TA
Why bother, he’ll either ignore it or get a pardon if it leads anywhere. Yes, I’m bitter…
WARNING:::
incoming constitutional crisis!!!!
rove won’t appear, congress goes to arrest him, DoJ goons confront Sgt. at Arms=ubermess
Who are the OPR? Is this another attempt to dilute the effect of the real hearings by setting up fake ones, like they did with Bloch?
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Now that we know Rove intends to NOT show…
And that Mukasey is the announced Protectorate of the president, refusing to enforce subpoenas by the House Judiciary…
The Full House can now vote for INHERENT CONTEMPT charges!
… but will they agree…?
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About f-ing time!
This is one fat lying pig that will squeal when you stick him! Let’s see who he names.
paddy boy @ 15:
True, but maybe the most important thing is that it will cost him a ton of legal fees and maybe break him financially. Don’t think that any legal defense fund raising will go on for him since he no longer has an official place in the administration.
Rove likes to talk alot about the truth but not when he’s under oath. Hmm, now I wonder why that is . . . ?
He’ll ignore it, claim executive privilege, and then it will go to the DOJ where any action will be stonewalled until jan-09. The Dems in the meantime will just bend over and take it in the ass.
Lollimom @ 10:
You may be right, probably are, but I still say ABOUT F-ING TIME!
Just add him to the list of Bush crooks who congress supoenaed and never shows up without consequences.
6 years late…but better late than never.
nochickenhawk @ 20:
I fear that McC and Hillary will issues pardons to this crowd. I am hopeful that Obama won’t!
Ryoko @ 22:
the way they like it
no kiss no lube
problem is we get the same injection they do
About DAMN time! I’ll be watching C-SPAN with popcorn and drinky-drinks!!!
Can I pick his prison nickname?
Frog march the bastard straight into jail!
BobD @ 28:
Bill Clinton let the Bush and Reagan administrations off the hook when he took office as a sign of good faith to the repugs. We see where that got him.
In a word … so? Isn’t he the 3rd person from this administration to be subpoenaed and the Justice Dept. just ignores it? There are only 2 remedies for the crimes of this group of thugs 1) Inherent Contempt of Congress and have the capitol police go out and arrest Rove next time he’s in D.C. or 2) IMPEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone else has ignored the subpoenas. What makes everyone so giddy about this one? I bet Karl’s already had it framed and hung it above his desk.
Kald @ 8:
Okay, so I’m still pretty friggin’ skeptical as to what ACTUALLY will happen. I still see it as a chance for these people to save their jobs right before election time, after doing nothing for so long. I mean, if he really will slam down his foot and have the bastard frog-marched in, more power to him! But then again, why wait so long for all of this to happen, while innocent people have been dying/living thru torture? If he had reason to subpoena Rove a while ago, why didn’t he do so? He could have ignored the subpoena and we could have had him thrown in the basement months ago.
Then again, I’m not going to be bitchin’ (too loudly) if it gets done, one way or the other… ;P
Conyers better have Rove’s pudgy ass stracked to a lie detector while he is being questioned. Better, conduct a parallel investigation by other means so that when Rove perjurs himself, he can be prosecuted..after Bush leaves office and goes into exile in Paraguay.
Did Conyers go over the heads of Pelosi and Reid on this one?
Is that flop-sweat making his forehead shine like that?
Under oath, please!
Sergeant at Arms stand at the ready sir…
Do you, Turd Blossum, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
As Nelson would say, “HA! ha.”
E Pleb Neesta
GODISNOWHERE
Beware the Red State Menace
The Declaration of Independence says “Nature’s god” once and “their creator” once.
The Constitution has no mention of either. In particular no “so help me god” in the president’s oath of office. If I tacked on “so help me Loki” or “so help me Fred, my daughter” or “so help me, me” would it still count?
Hardly grounds for defining us as a christian nation.
Rove and the WH expected this all along. This will drag on and on for who knows how long.
We’ll see Bush impeached before we see The Human Turd answers any questions UNDER OATH.
It will be interesting to see how Rove’s newfound media employers at Newsweek, Fox News, and The Wall Street Journal handle this development.
It will also be worth noting how Beltway opinion-makers in the press, who in recent weeks have been praising Rove for his second act as a full-time pundit, deal with Rove being arrested. This time, I think they just might do it.
LanceThruster @ 25:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swcjg4WmoXk
Rove
Bush
Cheney
Rumsfeld
Wolfowitz
Gonzales
Jean Schmit
Rush Limbaugh
Mike Savage (Weiner)
These are my picks for prosecution.
Ryoko @ 22:
Exactly. This isn’t the pony we’ve been hoping for.
Expect a cascade of motions and appeals. Anything to drag it out past the November elections to keep another possible scandal from hurting McCain by association.
Even if he does appear, this man who can cite specifics about congressional elections in the 1890s will break Alberto Gonzales’s Olympic record of number of “I don’t recall” claims per hour.
The one thing in the past eight years that Bush has gotten right was to bestow the name “Turdblossom” on Rove.
To paraphrase Clarence Darrow, I would never wish any man dead, but I would read that word on his tombstone with great pleasure.
If he shows up he’ll probably take the fifth on every question, but hey, I’ll take what little pleasure I can get right now. So, the drinks are on me.
He’s scheduled to testify right after Harriet Myers and Josh Bolten. I’ll hold my breath until it happens.
blogenfreude @ 49:
What? No pony? Now you’re gonna make me cry.
blogenfreude @ 49:
yeh. :( But who knows, maybe it just took that long to go swimming through all the e-mails/archives/phone records to find the nut-clinching evidence against the whole administration, and it had to be Rove, or the whole investigation would lead nowhere..? Maybe they didn’t give a flying f*ck about Miers et all, because it would spoil the surprise they have for Rove, Cheney, and Bush. That would make me supremely happy, but I’m not going to hold my breath for it.
DOJ would look like shit if they pass on this one - it’s not 2005 anymore - the heat is on.
All the more so with a new Administration waiting in the wings.
Here’s hoping he DOES ignore it - hell yeah: open-&-shut charge of criminal contempt.
Also a possible additional conspiracy &/or aiding & abetting charge.
Pity he can’t be nailed on RICO too … or should I say not YET.
Don’t let Conyers push ya around, Turd Blossom … c’mon, show everyone what a big man you are!
Orange overalls: the GOP chic fashion-statement for 2009.
After some “negotiations” , he will testify but ..
Not under oath,
In the comfort of his office,
no cameras, recording devices or transcripts,
With Dick Cheney holding his hand,
For 10 mins only and not a second more.
Lollimom @ 10:
Like this? Karl w/finger
I hope it drags on through November. I don’t know the legal ins and outs, but I imagine a world where bushco’s dirty laundry is aired through election season, and Rove is hung out to dry with nobody to pardon his fat ass.
We need to be careful we are not falling for another one of Rove’s tricks!!!!
Ha! Just kidding.
Remember when every breaking republican scandal always brought out the concern trolls to tell us that, by spreading the news, we were somehow falling for a Rove trick of some sort.
Throw him in Guantanamo.
When will he have to appear?