Judiciary Panel May Ask Dobson to Testify (WaPo)

[jefferson_dem]

Judiciary Panel May Ask Dobson to Testify
Evangelical Leader Says He Has Been Privy to Miers's Views

By Charles Babington Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 24, 2005; A05

The Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to summon a leading conservative Christian to explain the private assurances he says he received from the White House about Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, the committee's chairman said yesterday.

Testimony by Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson would heighten the political and religious overtones of the already-high-stakes confirmation hearing for Miers, scheduled to start two weeks from today.

Dobson is among several evangelical leaders enlisted by the White House to vouch for Miers's conservative credentials among right-leaning groups unhappy with her nomination. He spoke with Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove shortly before President Bush announced the nomination, and later hinted he had received privileged information. "When you know some of the things that I know -- that I probably shouldn't know -- you will understand why I have said, with fear and trepidation, that Harriet Miers will be a good justice," Dobson said told his national radio audience Oct. 5.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said yesterday that his panel is likely to require Dobson and perhaps others to testify about such purported conversations. Asked on CBS's "Face the Nation" whether the committee will "bring some of these people who said they were told things that perhaps they shouldn't have been told, like Mr. Dobson," Specter replied: "my instinct is that they'll be called. And the American people are entitled to clarification."

<SNIP>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/23/AR2005102300348_pf.html

[texpatriot2004]

1. They ought to. He should have to testify. n.t

[Metta]

2. Halleluyah and it should be televised.

That'd be sweet.

[onehandle]

3. Free publicity for Dobson.

Which is what this is really all about.

He wants to be a "mega-star" like Graham, Falwell, and the Grand Wizard Robertson.

[northzax]

6. yes, perhaps

he wants to be known as the guy who the White House calls to check with, certainly. call him and make him say who told him what. Then call them and ask them why they told a private citizen something that they didn't tell the public in general.

that might be fun.

[Pirate Smile]

4. WP: Judiciary Panel May Ask Dobson to Testify

Judiciary Panel May Ask Dobson to Testify
Evangelical Leader Says He Has Been Privy to Miers's Views

By Charles Babington Washington Post Staff Writer

Monday, October 24, 2005; Page A05

The Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to summon a leading conservative Christian to explain the private assurances he says he received from the White House about Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, the committee's chairman said yesterday.

Testimony by Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson would heighten the political and religious overtones of the already-high-stakes confirmation hearing for Miers, scheduled to start two weeks from today.

Dobson is among several evangelical leaders enlisted by the White House to vouch for Miers's conservative credentials among right-leaning groups unhappy with her nomination. He spoke with Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove shortly before President Bush announced the nomination, and later hinted he had received privileged information. "When you know some of the things that I know -- that I probably shouldn't know -- you will understand why I have said, with fear and trepidation, that Harriet Miers will be a good justice," Dobson said told his national radio audience Oct. 5.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said yesterday that his panel is likely to require Dobson and perhaps others to testify about such purported conversations. Asked on CBS's "Face the Nation" whether the committee will "bring some of these people who said they were told things that perhaps they shouldn't have been told, like Mr. Dobson," Specter replied: "my instinct is that they'll be called. And the American people are entitled to clarification."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/23/AR2005102300348.html

[niallmac]

5. Don't have to call Dobson to testify. We all know what happened.

The religious right was freaked out that Miers wasn't a fellow nut case. White House called Dobson and told him "Don't worry, she's just as nutty as you are Jimmy." Easy peasy.

[NVMojo]

7. I hope they follow through and interrogate this jerk!

[SoCalDem]

8. He DID go on TV and claim to "know stuff I shouldn't"..

He at least should be outed as a LIAR or a recipient of classified information he should not have

[radfringe]

9. and the quag-MIERS get deeper n/t