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The Alberto Gonzalez controversy train just keeps rollin’!

Earlier today, the President has made a “offer” to the committees investigating the firing of eight federal prosecutors. Bush offered to have his chief strategist Karl Rove and former White House counsel appear in front of the committe but, get this, they would not testify under oath. In other words, they would be free to lie to their hearts’ content. Miers supposedly proposed the idea to fire all 93 U.S. attorneys at the beginning of Bush’s second term. Karl Rove is suspected of having one attorney ousted to hire a friend of his in his place and is suspected of passing on complaints about a U.S. attorney from the New Mexico Republican Party chairman, Allen Weh, to the Justice Department. Weh said that, when he asked Rove if anything would happen to the New Mexico prosecutor, David Iglesias, Rove said, “He’s gone”, indicating it was a done deal.

If you remember, when George Bush and Dick Cheney met with members of the 9/11 Commission, they weren’t under oath and, more ironically, Alberto Gonzalez wasn’t under oath when he testified on the NSA’s spying on U.S. citizens. Gonzalez later “clarified” his unsworn testimony in a letter to the committee.

Well, it’s a new day in Congress so, it looks like Bush was trying to head off the news that House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. and Subcommittee Chairwoman Linda Sànchez will seek subpoenas for “five current and former White House and Justice Department officials”.

Conyers, Sànchez to Issue Subpoenas for White House Officials

(Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. and Subcommittee Chairwoman Linda Sànchez called a meeting to authorize subpoenas for five current and former White House and Justice Department officials. The Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (CAL) will meet TOMORROW, March 21st at 10:15 am in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building to consider subpoenas for Kyle Sampson, Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, William Kelley, and Scott Jennings, as well as White House and Justice Department documents, which have not been provided to date.

WHO: House Judiciary CAL Subcommittee

WHAT: Authorizing Subpoenas for White House, Justice Officials and Documents

WHEN: TOMORROW, March 21st, 10:15 am

WHERE: 2141 Rayburn HOB

I don’t know if they’ll bite on the president’s “offer” but, I hope not. I believe that Conyers has been waiting too long to get these folks under oath and won’t want the opportunity to slip away from him.

It’s a new day and I, for one, hope they give ‘em hell.

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