Jason Leopold / Scoop: Mukasey Rebuffs Pelosi, Refuses to Prosecute Bush Aides for Contempt

[althecat]

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00002.htm

Saturday, 1 March 2008, 5:20 pm
Article: Jason Leopold

Jason Leopold: Mukasey Rebuffs Pelosi, Refuses to Prosecute Bush Aides for Contempt

As expected, Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Friday to refer congressional contempt citations against President Bush's Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and the president's former counsel, Harriet Miers, to a federal grand jury claiming that the officials did not commit a crime when they refused to testify before Congress.

The move sets the stage for a historic legal showdown between Congress and the White House over President Bush's far-reaching claims of executive privilege, an issue that will ultimatel be decided by the courts and could have long lasting implications for future administrations.

"The department will not bring the congressional contempt citations before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute Mr. Bolten or Ms. Miers," Mukasey wrote in a letter Friday to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi swiftly responded, stating in a news release that she has given the Judiciary Committee authority to file lawsuits against Bolten and Miers in federal court.

"The American people demand that we uphold the law," Pelosi said. "As public officials, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and protect our system of checks and balances and our civil lawsuit seeks to do just that."

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[tularetom]

1. I don't see how Pelosi can weasel out of this

She'll have to confront the administration over it or fess up to utter invertebracy.

[BeatleBoot]

2. Jason Leopold? Remember the Fiasco with the Dick Cheney Indictment "Scoop" that wasn't ?

It was a huge debate on DU and Truthout

Even heard an interview with him, then everything fell apart if I recall correctly.

[lligrd]

3. This One Is Right. It Made AP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080301/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/congress_contempt

[seemslikeadream]

4. I don't see any thing wrong in his article

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. And the Dems will cower in the corner like the whipped curs they are.

Might hear a yelp or two, but mostly they will grovel for their continued meal ticket and position of "authority".

[BeHereNow]

6. They don't want to risk their place at the corporate piggie feeding trough.

Bastards, to a man/woman, each and everyone with the exception
of Kucinich as far as I can tell.

BHN

[seemslikeadream]

8. They seem to be all alike don't they BHN?

[BeHereNow]

10. Can you find one like the sheep, only with pigs?

LOL!
BHN

[seemslikeadream]

11. Hold on I'll find them

[seemslikeadream]

12. will a platapus do?

[BeHereNow]

16. For you, a poem about the platypus... could also be about some democrats as you will see. Read on.

THE PLATYPUS

by: Oliver Herford (1863-1935)

My child, the Duck-billed Platypus
A sad example sets for us:
From him we learn how Indecision
Of character provokes Derision.
This vacillating Thing, you see,
Could not decide which he would be,
Fish, Flesh or Fowl, and chose all three.
The scientists were sorely vexed
To classify him; so perplexed
Their brains, that they, with Rage at bay,
Called him a horrid name one day,--
A name that baffles, frights and shocks us,
Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus.

Bwahahahhahahahaaaaaaaaa!
Perfect poem for the congress AND senate Dems-
"Could not decide which he would be..."

So yes, a platypus will do nicely.

BHN
:loveya: SLAD

[NoodleyAppendage]

7. Thank you TRAITOROUS Dems Chuck Schumer & Diane Feinstein...you pieces of sh*t.

It is because of Chuck Schumer that we are stuck with Mukasey, who Schumer ASSURED his other Dems would be fair and uphold the law...I guess Schumer is banking on Dems having a failing memory or a short attention span. Well, that ain't going to happen. And, Feinstein with her "I'm blackmailable" problem because of her defense industry ethical problems is just as culpable.

J

[HCE SuiGeneris]

9. Well said.

:thumbsup:

[orleans]

15. i think we should all write those two fucking assholes an extremely

strong worded letter

dear chuck & di,
we are all really, really, really not happy about your mukasey pic. and we all hope you'll have better judgment in future selections.
love ya!
signed,
us libs


(ok--that was me imitating ALL OF THEM! i am so pissed off about this i could scream!)

you know, it's times like these when i get so goddamn sick of all these fucking politicians that i wonder why i even bother to fucking vote! they are all so full of shit it's unbelievable.

[XOKCowboy]

13. Welcome to the Imperial Presidency

Because we all know that Little Britches is protecting us from TERRA! :sarcasm:

Will we really be rid of him in less than a year?

[Recursion]

14. Maybe we have to wait 24 business hours n/t

[texasleo]

17. bwahahahahaahahahaa!

:beer:

[L. Coyote]

18. And, he replied quickly, a surprise that! Onward to IMPEACHMENT now.

HELLO Speaker Pelosi. A Bush judge to "uphold the Constitution and protect our system of checks and balances" means ruling for Bush!!

It is time to sweep Executive Privilege aside with a criminal charge levied via a resolution to

IMPEACH G. W. "Wiretap" or "Waterboard" Bush.

Speaker Pelosi, pick a crime already. Plenty of choices.

[spanone]

19. mr mukasey judge and jury....mission accomplished!