{"id":4657,"date":"2008-01-31T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2020-01-25T13:10:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T19:10:57","slug":"cheney-testimony-release-opposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/cheney-testimony-release-opposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney testimony release opposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/cheney-award.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/cheney-award.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>Secret Service agents and aides to Vice President Cheney who gave statements for a Colorado lawsuit have asked a judge not to release videos of their testimony, saying they might wind up on YouTube or &#8220;Comedy Central.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The arguments Wednesday came as a federal magistrate ordered the government to present its reasons why Cheney should not be subpoenaed to testify in a lawsuit by a Denver-area man who claims comments he made to the vice president about the Iraq war led to his arrest in June 2006.<\/p>\n<p>David Lane, an attorney for Steve Howards, said that Secret Service agents and Cheney&#8217;s employees all provide different versions of Howards&#8217; actions, which raises questions that only Cheney &#8212; the alleged victim of the assault &#8212; could answer.<\/p>\n<p>James Gilligan, an attorney representing the Office of the Vice President and the Secret Service, told Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer that Lane had not &#8220;crossed the bar&#8221; showing how he could interview a high level official under oath.<\/p>\n<p>(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press Secret Service agents and aides to Vice President Cheney who gave statements for a Colorado lawsuit have asked a judge not to release videos of their testimony, saying they might wind up on YouTube or &#8220;Comedy Central.&#8221; The arguments Wednesday came as a federal magistrate ordered the government to present its reasons why&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-evidence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cheney testimony release opposed &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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