Karl Rove Defies Congressional Subpoena, Again
February 23rd, 2009 |
| Some juvenile degenerate is passing this disgusting image around over the Internets. We felt a moral obligation to report it. Take that Turd Blossom. |
by Glynn Wilson
Karl Rove, the former political adviser to President George W. Bush, was a no show again this morning at the House Judiciary Committee, sources say, where he once again faced a subpoena to testify under oath about his role in political prosecutions and firings from his perch in the White House for seven years.
A staff member for the committee confirmed this on the telephone, saying simply: “He did not show up.”
Republican sources say Rove is laughing his ass off and having a party in Illinois Monday night, while House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers is back in his district in Michigan and not even in Washington, D.C., even though his office said last Thursday that the deposition was still on for Monday morning.
Apparently the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has given Rove’s attorneys, the White House counsel and the Obama Justice Department another week to reach an agreement on whether Rove should be covered under “executive privilege,” and thus be immune from having to testify about his knowledge of political manipulations of justice in the U.S. attorney firings scandal and the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.
According to Scott Horton, a New York attorney and contributing writer to Harper‘s magazine, Karl Rove has stated repeatedly that he was uninvolved in the prosecution of Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, and that he has no Executive Privilege to assert in this regard.
“Yet when subpoenaed to testify on this subject he refuses to appear,” Horton said. ” At this point the record is clear: Rove won’t repeat his claims about the Siegelman case under oath and subject to cross-examination. That fact is extremely revealing, and it suggests strongly that Rove’s public, unsworn comments are not truthful.”
It’s another sad day for democracy, and the press is sound asleep.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 11:14 am
What I would suggest should be done with /to Karl Rove at this point is unconstitutional, ugly, a departure from progressive dogma , etc. – but I sure as hell would mean it if I said it.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:24 am
Waterboarding maybe?
It’s not torture, after all, according to the Bush-Gonzalez Justice Department. Maybe we could find out just what Turd Blossom knew and when he knew it with a some “enhanced interrogation techniques,” eh?
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Via Pam’s List:
It’s like an adult version of “chicken.” Rove doesn’t show and again, Conyers has the option of holding Rove in contempt and having him arrested.
I wish.
aimeebk20
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
What, as I have said before, gives Rove the privilege to keep repeatedly denying the subpoenas?
He is no God or any better than you or I!
He like all of the rest of the Republicans are probably laughing their heads off! They are a bunch of evil people who will stop at nothing to get in office and ruin someone else!! That has been shown many times!
Rove should be given a final warning, either show up or the marshals should pick him — like anyone else!!!
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Conyers should just go ahead with the endgame and ask for Rove to be held in contempt of Congress. He would then be jailed until he agreed to testify. One or two nights even at a “Club Fed” facility would sober him up. Conyers has cut Rove lots of slack; now it’s time to get serious.
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Like the Zen Master said, “We will see…”
February 24th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Via E-mail:
He is on an Honest Abe Tour of dinners and GOP parties. He will be at the Cleveland Renaissance from 5:30 until whenever. He’s party boy Karl and he is living right now high on the hog as my daddy would say. The republicans are loving him for ignoring the subpoena. They are honoring a law breaker…
DANA JILL SIMPSON
February 24th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Groups Request Special Prosecutor For Bush, Cheney
Statement on Prosecution of Former High Officials
We urge Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a non-partisan independent Special Counsel to immediately commence a prosecutorial investigation into the most serious alleged crimes of former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Richard B. Cheney, the attorneys formerly employed by the Department of Justice whose memos sought to justify torture, and other former top officials of the Bush Administration.
Our laws, and treaties that under Article VI of our Constitution are the supreme law of the land, require the prosecution of crimes that strong evidence suggests these individuals have committed. Both the former president and the former vice president have confessed to authorizing a torture procedure that is illegal under our law and treaty obligations. The former president has confessed to violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
We see no need for these prosecutions to be extraordinarily lengthy or costly, and no need to wait for the recommendations of a panel or “truth” commission when substantial evidence of the crimes is already in the public domain. We believe the most effective investigation can be conducted by a prosecutor, and we believe such an investigation should begin immediately.
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February 24th, 2009 at 11:33 am
From Don Siegelman via e-mail:
Whether the White House realizes this or not, but by asking the Court for another extension for them to decide whether they are on our side or Karl Rove’s side regarding executive privilege, they are playing into Rove’s delaying tactics. Rove is apparently trying to delay in hopes of allowing any criminal, statues of limitations to “run” and it gives him another excuse for ignoring the House Judiciary’s subpoena.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:54 am
The White House still believes it is dealing with gentlemen when dealing with the Republicans. This is a mistake. But the fact that there is (or was) so much treasonous activity that defined the previous administration it is impossible to comprehend it all, much less indict those responsible.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:56 am
The problem is, alas, that if Obama does not indict them, knowing what he knows, he becomes complicit.
June 9th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Agreed. Guess he can only solve six of the world’s problems at one time. Give him time…
The problem on the Justice system and Alabama is not Obama, but the White House attorney and Artur Davis’s connection to AG Holder. Davis doesn’t just want to be Alabama’s first black governor, he wants to be Alabama’s first CONSERVATIVE pro-business black governor. It won’t work, but meanwhile, Siegelman stays in limbo…