White House Strategy in 3 steps....

[Blackhatjack]

1. AG Gonzales says it was all Harriett Miers fault.

2. Harriett Miers refuses to testify.

3. White House claims 'executive privilege' to keep Miers from testifying.

In three easy steps the WHite House plans to stop the US Attorney scandal investigation, and run out the clock in the courts.

[JDPriestly]

1. I'm wondering whether one of the U.S. attorneys who kept his or her job will come clean.

Surely there is one U.S. attorney with a conscience or a iota of patriotism - or at least the sense to think he wouldn't want a Democrat doing what the Bush administration did with regard to firing attorneys.

[Blackhatjack]

5. Don't know about a conscientious US attorney, but may be a 'Deep Throat' in the White House

It certainly appears that 'leaks' to the Congressional Investigatory Committees could have come from a White House insider.

[radfringe]

2. K & R

don't have time at the moment to think about this and comment

I've bookmarked it and will toss in my two-cents later today

[ClintonTyree]

3. How can the Bushistas keep her from testifying....

when she's no longer connected to them though? I'm SURE they'll find a way, legal or not, but it would seem to me that her being outside the protective arm of the Bushistas would make her fair game for a subpoena. :shrug:

[Blackhatjack]

4. They can make a failed argument & then push it through the courts for years...

I suspect they will argue that if a 'former' White House official is required to testify before Congress about matters that were discussed while she/he was still employed as a White House official would have a 'chilling effect' on the rendering of candid advice to the President because of fear that they would be called to testify publicly once they left office.

I do not believe this argument is validly supported by 'executive privilege.' However, it will work well in a delaying campaign to get to the end of Bush's term.

[ClintonTyree]

7. Probably right....

and then off to Paraguay to avoid any pesky charges after his signing statements and executive privilege can't keep him out of prison any more.

[maine_raptor]

6. I don't think Miers can claim executive privilege.

Seeing as how she no longer works for Bush.