Judiciary at it again!

[Saint]

Panel votes immunity for Gonzales aide

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 38 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - In rapid succession, congressional committees Wednesday ramped up their investigations of the Bush administration by approving a subpoena for Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice and granting immunity to a former key aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

By 21-10, the House oversight committee voted to issue a subpoena to Rice to compel her story on the Bush administration's claim, now discredited, that
Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa.

Moments earlier in the committee chamber next door, the
House Judiciary Committee voted 32-6 to grant immunity to Monica Goodling, Gonzales' White House liaison, for her testimony on why the administration fired eight federal prosecutors. The panel also unanimously approved — but did not issue — a subpoena to compel her to appear.

Simultaneously across Capitol Hill, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved — but did not issue — a subpoena on the prosecutors' matter to Sara Taylor, deputy to presidential adviser Karl Rove.

The House oversight committee also issued subpoenas for the
Republican National Committee for testimony and documents about White House e-mails on RNC accounts that have apparently gone missing, in violation of the law.

In case Gonzales thought the worst had passed with his punishing testimony last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the chairman and top Republican issued a new demand: Refresh the memory that Gonzales claimed had failed him 71 times during the seven-hour session.

"Provide the answers to the questions you could not recall last Thursday," Chairman Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record), D-Vt., and ranking Republican Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record) of Pennsylvania, wrote to Gonzales on Wednesday.

Specter's letter underscored that Congress' march against the administration isn't driven solely by Democrats. Only six members of the House Judiciary Committee voted against immunity for Goodling — all Republicans. Several Republican lawmakers have lobbed harsh criticism at Gonzales in the two days since Bush issued a fresh statement of support for him.

"I'll be as vigilant as ever in overseeing the Justice Department and working with other senators both Republicans and Democrats for accountability from the attorney general and the department he leads," said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

Democrats say they want to force into the open the story of why the eight U.S. attorneys were fired and whether they were singled out to influence corruption cases. Republicans point out that Gonzales survived a brutal Senate hearing last week with
President Bush's support and no evidence of wrongdoing in the prosecutors firings.

For his part, Gonzales tried to mend fences on Capitol Hill, meeting with a key critic, Sen. Mark Pryor (news, bio, voting record), D-Ark., who has complained that Gonzales was not truthful with him over the dismissal of Bud Cummins, the former U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark.

His outreach apparently didn't take.

"I reiterated with the attorney general, face-to-face, that I think he should resign," Pryor told reporters in a conference call after meeting with Gonzales in Washington. "I think it's the best thing for the
Department of Justice and it's probably the best thing for him personally and the administration."

On the uranium issue, Rice's allies maintained that she has for years answered Congress' questions under oath, as well as media inquiries, about her knowledge of the veracity of Bush's claim about uranium.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., said Rice was "giving us no choice but to proceed with a subpoena."

State Department spokesman Tom Casey responded that the agency would consult with the White House on the matter.

"The secretary has addressed this four-year old issue on many occasions and the subject already has been exhaustively investigated," Casey said.

Even as he pressed ahead on Rice, Waxman postponed a vote on issuing a subpoena to former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card on the same issue, saying White House Counsel Fred Fielding had made a compromise proposal worth pursuing. Under it, the committee would first talk to the White House office of administration about Card's knowledge of the uranium claim.

On the prosecutor firings, the House Judiciary Committee approved two measures that would compel Goodling's testimony and grant her immunity from prosecution. The immunity grant only would take effect if Conyers signs and issues the subpoena to Goodling, he said.

Some Republicans cautioned that immunity has tied the hands of prosecutors in the past, notably during the
Iran-Contra scandal. Admiral John Poindexter and Lt. Col. Oliver North were granted immunity and later had their convictions reversed when a judge ruled that they were based too much on immunized testimony.

"Think of the consequences to the integrity and reputation of this committee and this institution should we grant immunity and it's impossible to prosecute someone," said Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the panel.

At the Justice Department, spokesman Dean Boyd declined comment on the House panel's vote to give Goodling immunity. He said he would not speculate on whether giving her immunity could tie prosecutors' hands should evidence of criminal activity surface.

The investigation into the prosecutors' firings spawned another probe into whether White House aides conducted official business on the RNC e-mail account, then deleted the e-mails in violation of law requiring all presidential records to be preserved. (end Quote)

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[NoApartheid]

Goodling really creeps all of us out. She looks like her eyes are going to pop out the back of her head or whatever else

Goodling is one of those Jesus freaks from Georgetown that is probably living in an alternate universe where the King of Israel is set to return or.....

All I know is she has basically broken the law on account of her religion. That is grounds for a serious thrashing so they give her immunity

[Saint]

No they gave her immunity so she can roll over on gonzales and rove and others i think. the senate judiciary commitee is shaping up to be a major disassembler of this administration i think...i hope. I watch em every chance I get.

I dont care about her beliefs..if she is gonna drop a dime on Gonzles Im happy, she can disappear after that for all i care, but i want that bird to sing.


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[NoApartheid]

Yah and sing she will because Gonzales job is on the line. Gonzales is from Georgetown university too and its clear he broke the law.

Look at what the US attornies were investigating and you tell me that Gonzales did not break the law, I don't think its possible:

http://citizensforethics.org/node/27819

http://www.madcowprod.com/04232007.html

One of the Jesus freak contractors in the military industrial complex is Brent Wilkes. Brent Wilkes denies the criminal charges against him.

He is trying to get the judge to throw the whole case out. Hope it doesnt work I think the judge will see through his quacky claims.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/poli ... ibery.html

Brent Wilkes was involved with Titan corp, IQ, and a set of defense contractors in Turkey & Israel. There was so many crimes being investigated by them it is so obvious

Carol Lam, Paul Charlton and the US Attorney Bud Cummins were in the middle of severe corruption investigations not at the end of them. One of them already had indictments to be passed up while fired.

Gonzales firing them whether he knows it or not or likes it, was obstruction of ongoing federal criminal probes into these defense contractors and israeli partisans.

[Saint]

Yup, all true as far as I know. I been watching this for sometime. Not to mention his views of the geneva convention and the fact that he uses his position to advise the president like personal council, which he isnt. He is supposed to represent us and investigate the president if need be. Check my albreto gonzales fan club thread for some juicy pics i made of him. Cant wait till the hammer drops on him. I also believe he is the one advising the president to use executive orders to bypass so many laws (more than every other president combined). He needs to go. Did you watch the testimony? I was riveted and even missed most of work to watch it.

BTW, he WAS bush's private coucil when he was governor of texas. Bush nominated him to the TX Supreme Court. He also has ties to Enron scandal.

[NoApartheid]

Yah hes not exactly all there. Karl Rove though is the one who needs to be held accountable.

Have you seen the biography on Dick Cheney by the way?


http://www.ziopedia.org/content/view/3628/58/


That guy is out of touch and just plain deluded through and through.

Cheney and his handlers definitely need to be impeached into the dustbin of history and the accountability must come

[Saint]

Well im hoping Gonzales is chased out of position, Cheney is impeached, and Condi fucks up at her hearing, leading to her being chased out of office too. If those three go I think the unraveling process would speed up dramatically.

[NoApartheid]

Well im hoping Gonzales is chased out of position, Cheney is impeached, and Condi fucks up at her hearing, leading to her being chased out of office too. If those three go I think the unraveling process would speed up dramatically.

Yep that is what we're all pushing for....

Condaliar speaking under oath about what she knows will bring in Edelman.


Louis Freeh was the FBI director for a while which he being loyal to the Vatican enabled the 9-11 attacks and the dancing mossad israeli agents.

Freeh is a friend of Monica Goodling I have heard and he's a career criminal.


The thing we push for now and we really hope for, is Conda will rat out the American Turkish Council and Henry Waxman will agree to hold full hearings on the Sibel Edmonds case.

If that happens and it could, then the real criminals will finally be dragged out of hiding.

Then I hope Doug Feith and those other career Zionist lunatics in the Turkish military get served their real deferrment papers....aka subpoenas and off to prison!!

(HOW do you get 20 deferrments and never serve in the Army yet control all of US policy?!???)

[Ry]

It is about time and I hope that lying spider bitch NeoCondi Rice goes down with him.

Too late for the 650 thousand plus dead Iraqis. This is studd we were saying back in 2002 that they lying. I wrote aobut the Niger forgeires a long long time ago before the war even started. So if I knew it (just from my pc and zero resources) then it is sure as hell the CIA knew it and people in Washington and the people in the press should have known it.

[Saint]

of course they did, but the public didnt know (public in general) and through the efforts of this site and many like it the awareness has spread on many issues. Condi is hinting she will try to fight the subpeona. Yeah...I'd like to see her try it...really i would. It paints the picture that much clearer. Hopefully, although 650,000 Iraqis have died becuase of this administration, we can try like hell to keep this administration from continuing its course of destruction. Hopefully as well, these things may help to set the stage for a more receptive public on the AIPAC trials, so much so that even if the feeble MSM doesnt cover it, it will find its way into the information collector of every american citizen, and more.