SOS Rice refuses to answer supoena

[Pierogi_Pincher]

Source: C-Span/ Washington Post



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269555,00.html

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Saw this breaking on c-Span 1 during roll call--pretty sure source is WaPo, but no news on website yet.
Uh-oh.

edited to include a link just found

[hippiechick]

1. ... can she be indicted for refusing to appear?

I hope I hope I hope? :shrug:

[Pierogi_Pincher]

3. Let it be so. n/t

[CatWoman]

25. let it be written.

let it be done. :)

[Pierogi_Pincher]

33. "Signed,sealed and delivered!"

Called the *Waxman's* DC office 3 days in a row last week to offer encouragement & support on behalf of our family. Staff said much appreciated. Go Henry! The rule of law!

(Sweet kitty avatar, BTW!)

P_P

[crikkett]

4. congress has to vote to hold her in contempt then it goes to Alberto Gonzales

to convene a grand jury and seek indictment.

See the plan here?

[MUAD_DIB]

5. But if he doesn't comply with congress then he is gone daddy gone.

[Pierogi_Pincher]

6. Know precisely what you're saying.

I still am holding onto my shred of faith.

[crikkett]

19. I was wrong I guess - downthread someone shows the sgt at arms can arrest her.

Sorry about the error everyone

[Pierogi_Pincher]

28. I believe that's what someone posted re: her initial

response when she was put on notice of a subpoena being issued. She thumbed her nose at that last week, now again from her ME trip. When I finally got to read her words to the reporter in this article, I went into orbit. 'These people' are deceived. No one can continually push the limits as has been done without some repercussion eventually--somewhere, somehow. I know this in my heart. My head spins from each new utterance from 'these people'. I get mad and physically sick all at once. It is a travesty that 'these people' are *representing* our government. My desire is to see the America that should be.

I don't know the ins & outs of governmental law very well, and I truly appreciate when someone contributes knowledge in this area. Thanks guys & dolls. DU is amazing! :loveya:

P_P :dem:

[endarkenment]

10. I believe that congress can take this directly to the courts.

They are not dependent on Gonzales.

[seemunkee]

12. I thought I read the Sergaent at Arms could arrest her

Of course she would then have to be tried by a U.S. Attorney.

[LiberalFighter]

23. Since Gonzales has his secret prisons...

Congress should build special secret prisons for Gonzales, Condi, Cheney and Bush

[BlooInBloo]

26. That's *not* actually necessary...

... There's a thing called "inherent contempt", according to which Congress can, punitively or coercively, imprison those who defy their subpoenas - independent of the executive branch.

[Occulus]

8. Send that lying, contemptible smudge to jail.

NOW.

(Hey- were it you or me we would have already been sent there, the moment we said we "weren't inclined to appear".)

[dubyaD40web]

9. She can by the "Sergeant At Arms"

"As chief law enforcement officer of the Senate, the Sergeant at Arms is charged with maintaining security in the Capitol and all Senate buildings, as well as protection of the members themselves. The Sergeant at Arms serves as the executive officer of the Senate for enforcement of all rules of the Committee on Rules and Administration regulating the Senate Wing of the Capitol and the Senate Office Buildings and has responsibility for and immediate supervision of the Senate floor, chamber and galleries. The Sergeant at Arms is authorized to arrest and detain any person violating Senate rules, including the President of the United States."

http://www.senate.gov/reference/office/sergeant_at_arms.htm

[uppityperson]

13. get the cameras ready! I would love to see this.

[nashville_brook]

2. oh no she didn'!

:popcorn:

[Roland99]

7. CUFF HER!!!

:mad:

[Cant trust em]

11. worthless subpoenas

It seems like the popular thing these days that you can just totally blow off a congressional subpoena. If the Dems don't come out and blast her in the media with full force then it's a pretty toothless effort. Moreover, if they don't come out against her on this then I can only assume that they're lazy or using this as some kind of precedent so we can blow off subpoenas when we're in the minority.

[Pierogi_Pincher]

31. Still somewhat new at this, but here goes--"Welcome, fellow traveler!"

As you posit--'lazy', or--'to be used as a precedent'. My brain is scrambled lately. Can't take readings anymore. Just when you think you have it, it's something entirely different.

P_P :hi:

[Pierogi_Pincher]

14. How long will it take them to provide the WHOLE STORY?? n/t

[B Calm]

15. Send the fascist bitch to jail! She's not above the law!!

[EnviroBat]

16. Well shit, I guess I should just stop paying my taxes then.

I mean hell, what good are laws? Oh, and my student loans. No more for them either, not paying them, they will die with me.

[librechik]

24. Exactly--why should any citizen obey the law if on citizen can simply refuse to with no consequences

She is a citizen, isn't she? Or is she above all that in the highest reaches of the New American Monarchy?

[Pierogi_Pincher]

29. 'These people' are of the "do as I say, not as I do" rule. n/t

[EnviroBat]

34. Right on...

I'm starting to have nightmares about what's going on in this country right now.

[woodsprite]

17. Drag her in by the heels of her Ferragamo's! n/t

[Pierogi_Pincher]

18. Found a link at Capitol News...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269555,00.html

[Solly Mack]

20. Oh well

[spanone]

21. Who Are these People?

[Pierogi_Pincher]

32. As in workers of iniquity,

purveyors of perdition or just insignificant and unrecognisable?

[eppur_se_muova]

22. "SOS" Rice -- how appropriate.

She's sinking her own ship, but good.

[Pierogi_Pincher]

30. That's good!

When I abbreviated her title, another definition for this acronymn came to mind. :evilgrin:

P_P

[Matariki]

27. People better start calling the current 'administration' what it is - A COUP.

the more they get away with, the more obvious it becomes. you'd think more people would notice or care.