CAN TOU F'EN BELIEVE IT - Bush reportedly blocks Rove testimony

[baja]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20075075/

BREAKING NEWS
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Citing executive privilege, President Bush has barred his close adviser Karl Rove from testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee in a probe over fired federal prosecutors, CNN reported Wednesday.

The committee had subpoenaed Rove to testify at a hearing Thursday morning in its investigation of the firing last year of nine federal prosecutors, which critics said was prompted by partisan politics.

Also subpoenaed was White House political aide J. Scott Jennings.

Story continues below ?
advertisement

White House Counsel Fred Fielding has consistently said that top presidential aides — present and past — are immune from subpoenas and has declared the documents sought off-limits under executive privilege.

The House Judiciary Committee already has approved a contempt citation against two other Bush confidants, chief of staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers. The full House is expected to vote on the citation in the fall, but the Justice Department has said it won’t prosecute the two.

Sara Taylor, the former White House political director, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month and sought to answer some lawmakers’ questions and remain mum on others, citing Bush’s claim of privilege.

Gonzales at center of standoff
The controversy over the firings has grown into a larger dispute between Congress and the White House over the credibility of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Lawmakers have questioned whether Gonzales testified truthfully over the government’s secret surveillance program.

Bush met with congressional leaders Wednesday to press for action on a proposal to expand the surveillance program and get it done before Congress goes on recess at week’s end.

The administration is pushing to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to allow surveillance without a warrant of terror suspects who are overseas. The proposal, offered late last week by Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, is designed to fix what the White House says is a glaring problem: the missing of significant foreign intelligence that could protect the country against terrorist attacks.

“To the extent that more flexibility is needed, as Director McConnell has indicated, we are prepared to make those accommodations under the law,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after congressional leaders met with Bush at the White House Wednesday. “We hope to do that this week.”

[footstepsfrom#27]

Bush should just stick with his previous strategy that's been working so well all along...just let all the **** hit the fan at will and the sheer volume and pace of the information overload will negate focus on any one problem long enough to do anything about it. About the time people think they're close to catching on to something underhanded, two or three more things will pop up to take its place. In this strategy more revelations of corruption equal less possibility of action. Whittle down the number of accusations however, and you give folks a fighting chance to wrap their heads around something long enough to grasp it.

[baja]

Ain't that the truth.

[Bronco Bob]

Originally Posted by footstepsfrom#27

Bush should just stick with his previous strategy that's been working so well all along...just let all the **** hit the fan at will and the sheer volume and pace of the information overload will negate focus on any one problem long enough to do anything about it. About the time people think they're close to catching on to something underhanded, two or three more things will pop up to take its place. In this strategy more revelations of corruption equal less possibility of action. Whittle down the number of accusations however, and you give folks a fighting chance to wrap their heads around something long enough to grasp it.

Sort of the herding cats approach.

[yavoon]

checks and balances are for pussies.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by footstepsfrom#27

Bush should just stick with his previous strategy that's been working so well all along...just let all the **** hit the fan at will and the sheer volume and pace of the information overload will negate focus on any one problem long enough to do anything about it. About the time people think they're close to catching on to something underhanded, two or three more things will pop up to take its place. In this strategy more revelations of corruption equal less possibility of action. Whittle down the number of accusations however, and you give folks a fighting chance to wrap their heads around something long enough to grasp it.

I think it's just a result and example of how people have been out to get these guys since day 1. And really this administration is no better or worse than the general comparables.

[baja]

YAVOON, "checks and balances are for pussies.".




No shiit.

LET'S ROLL!!!!!