Comments on: Mukasey’s Subpoena

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:58:20 +0000

I respectfully disagree.
By lecturing Wasserman, in a very highminded priggish fashion, Addington looked like a jerk. His condecention was irritating.

And Yoo — a Professor of Law (at an elite university) — repeatedly ’seeking the advice of his attorney’ before answering questions looked a fool. That’s what people do only when they’re afraid of answering questions. Note that Mora sure didn’t need anyone’s approval to answer questions in last weeks’s Senate hearings; what a contrast with Yoo.

Sooner or later, these guys are going to pay the piper.
I don’t know how it will happen, but I suspect that Congress probably already has what they need and just wants to get these guys out on public display so that people get a sense of how guarded, evasive, unapologetic, and uninformative they are.

They’ve got “Slitherin” written all over them.
Nothing they try will change it.

By: rxbusa

rxbusa — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:09:19 +0000

didn’t tape it but I definitely heard it because I remarked on it in the comments at the time (see comment 73 in the liveblog part one)

can’t get the link to work, but it is in HJC Testimony: Mr. Unitary Executive and Mr. Yoo, comment 73 at 11:00AM EDT.

By: Leen

Leen — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:01:09 +0000

When was the last time congress sent out the Sergeant of Arms if subpoenas are ignored?

http://jonathanturley.org/2008.....-congress/

All I want to know is if a blue collar peasant ignored a congressional subpoena would they come after me? So why not Bolton, Rove, Meijers, Mukasey? Clearly two or more justice systems in this country

By: ezdidit

ezdidit — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:24:01 +0000

I wonder why Conyers made it so simple for Mukasey to answer this one?

There are fully a dozen separate subpoenas here, and ganging them together like this makes it impossible to enforce and easy to answer.

Faulty prosecution to minimize the effect?

If this is not misuse or abuse of “subpoena power,” I don’t know what is.

Let us turn now to an Iran invasion and Congressional Democrats complicity in a new BushCheney venture. Indeed, Congress is challenging them to proceed.

What a sham. Is this the very best that Conyers can do? I think not.

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:19:25 +0000

Frank has said she smiles too much in public. She’s covering many asses with her insipid response to FISA legislation.

By: victoria2dc

victoria2dc — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:58:03 +0000

Question: Did you note that Rep. Frank (R) wrote it into the record (kinda like a threat) that Pelosi was briefed?

Does anyone have that thing taped? I need a YouTube (really… it’s important) of that moment.

Anyone?

By: strider7

strider7 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:03:05 +0000

this kinda sums it up,
“Could the president ever be justified in breaking the law? “I’m not going to answer a legal opinion on every imaginable set of facts any human being could think of,” Addington growled. Did he consult Congress when interpreting torture laws? “That’s irrelevant,” he barked. Would it be legal to torture a detainee’s child? “I’m not here to render legal advice to your committee,” he snarled. “You do have attorneys of your own.”

By: PJEvans

PJEvans — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:03:04 +0000

The alternative is much worse: McCain.

Do like the rest of us and hold your nose when you vote. It won’t be the first time.

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:38:46 +0000

I agree he made the wrong choice, but he’s not bending over for Bush. Your Congress did that and they bent over to make sure their asses are covered so they aren’t bent over. He’s bending over because (and I could not disagree more with this) he and his advisors think it is politically expedient.

It is a significant lack of leadership to be sure.

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:35:52 +0000

Do you know off the top what the precedent is for maintaining EP after a President leaves office on those matters that were claimed as EP before? If there were litigation with Bush or Mukasey over this, anyway, it would not mature until well after he left.

I’ve been trying to sort through precedents to figure this out.