By Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times In a broadly worded legal opinion, the Justice Department has concluded that President Bush’s former top lawyer, and possibly other senior White House officials, can ignore subpoenas from Congress to testify about the U.S. attorneys affair. The three-page opinion raises questions about whether the Justice Department would prosecute…
By Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t While Congress has threatened to hold senior Bush administration officials in contempt for refusing to comply with subpoenas pertaining to their investigation into the controversial firing of nine US attorneys, enforcing such criminal contempt charges would fall to Jeffrey Taylor, interim US attorney for…
Patrick O’Connor, The Politico House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) criticized former White House counsel Harriet Miers’s decision not to appear before a subcommittee hearing Thursday to answer questions about her role in the firing of nine U.S. attorneys late last year. A lawyer for Miers notified the committee on Wednesday that his client…
By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press Senate Democrats moved Tuesday to cut off funding for Vice President Dick Cheney’s office in a continuing battle over whether he must comply with national security disclosure rules. A Senate appropriations panel chaired by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., refused to fund $4.8 million in the vice president’s budget until Cheney’s…
