Conyers, Sanchez express ‘extreme disappointment’ with White House

[cal04]

In a letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding Monday, Reps. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) expressed their “extreme disappointment” in the White House’s unwillingness to cooperate in their investigation into the firings of U.S. attorneys and threatened a “compulsory process” if the White House continues to be unresponsive.

“Even without a single document or witness interview provided by the White House,” the congressmen wrote, “it is clear that the White House played an important role in the events concerning the U.S. Attorney controversy."

“If the White House persists in refusing to provide information to the House Judiciary Committee, or even to discuss providing such information, on a voluntary basis,” they wrote, “we will have no alternative but to begin to resort to compulsory process in order to carry out our oversight responsibilities.”

Conyers and Sanchez, the chairmen of the House Judiciary Committee and House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law respectively, provided a timeline of their fruitless requests. On March 9, they sent a letter to the White House requesting its cooperation. On March 21, Sanchez’s subcommittee authorized subpoenas for the testimony of White House aide Karl Rove, White House Counsel Harriet Miers and special assistant to the president J. Scott Jennings as well as e-mails relating to the firings. Finally, on March 22, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Conyers rejected Fielding’s offer of private interviews with White House officials without a transcript.


http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/conyers-sanchez-express-extreme-disappointment-with-white-house-2007-05-21.html

[Fridays Child]

1. Enough with the threats! Compel, already!

[spanone]

2. Let the Compulsory Process begin.

[Faux pas]

3. 'extreme disappointment', bet bush is shaking in his Roy Rogers

cowboy boots. Gimme a farking break!

[peacebird]

4. does allowing the WH to refuse so many requests strengthen their hand with the 23%?

The kool aid guzzlers? Are they liable to start questioning why bush refuses to give congress info? Is that why they are taking so much time and letting this slide?

[jaxx]

5. They need to quit writing letters and get going on the impeachments.

Give dubya something to veto he'll remember.

[Cobalt-60]

6. I can't understand the courtesy

its time to press the attack