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TSA Subpoenas Bloggers, Demands Names of Sources
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 31) - The Transportation Security Administration backed down Thursday from its demand that an Internet travel writer immediately provide information on how he obtained an airline security directive. Anthony Elia, attorney for writer Chris Elliott, said the TSA extended the response period through Jan. 20. The TSA subpoena, dated Tuesday, originally demanded a response by New Year's Eve. Elia now has the option of challenging the subpoena in federal court or negotiating a settlement with the TSA. Elliott, from Winter Springs, Fla., said TSA agents had showed up at his house, ...
Rove Subpoenaed by House Committee, Again
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe House Judiciary Committee today approved a subpoena for former Bush White House Political Director Karl Rove, commanding him to appear before the panel to answer question about his alleged role in the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys in 2005. The move marks the third time Rove has been summoned by a Congressional committee. Rove has refused to testify before Rep. John Conyers' (D-MI) committee, citing Executive privilege as a former counsel to the president. In retaliation, the committee voted contempt of Congress charges against Rove, and referred the charges to the full House.At issue is ...
Waxman Revisits Plame Saga
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyHouse Oversight and Government Reform Committee Henry Waxman wants to look into the Valerie Plame outing, citing a disclosure Scooter Libby made to the FBI in which Libby indicated to investigators that he may have been instructed by Vice President Dick Cheney to out Plame. Waxman wants the FBI to turn over records of an interview they conducted with Cheney during the course of the investigation that ended with the conviction Libby for perjury and the subsequent commutation of his sentence by President Bush. In a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Waxman said that recent revelations ...
Reporter Subpoenaed in Spy Case
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyVeteran national security reporter from the Washington Times Bill Gertz has been ordered by a Federal judge to reveal his source for a series of articles he wrote in 2006 that discussed a pending Federal indictment in a little-noticed espionage case. Gertz reported that Chinese engineer Tai Mak and four of his relatives had been targeted by the Justice Department for indictment over allegations that Mak conspired to provide U.S. defense information to China. Mak and his relatives later pleaded guilty to lesser charges and are serving time in Federal prison.The court order for Gertz to testify ...
54 Ex-Attorneys General Support Siegelman
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyDon Siegelman, the former Alabama governor who is free from prison pending an appeal of his June 2006 bribery and conspiracy conviction, received the support of 54 former state attorneys general Friday when they filed a brief supporting his appeal of that conviction. Siegelman says Fox News pundit and former Bush brain and current McCain adviser Karl Rove pushed a politically motivated prosecution and that when the dust settles, this case will make Watergate look like child's play. Democratic Representative John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, gave Rove a week to testify ...
Rove Denies Tampering With Investigation
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyKarl Rove, subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee last week to answer questions in a long running Congressional investigation into alleged politicization and misuse of the Justice Department by the Bush Administration, denied on Sunday that he had anything to do with a Department probe into former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. Siegelman was convicted on bribery charges in 2006 and sentenced to seven years in Federal prison. He was released to pursue an appeal of the conviction after an appeals court found "serious questions" about the case.Rove is also sought by the House to answer ...
Rove Subpoenaed
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyHouse Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers today issued a subpoena to the man dubbed "Bush's brain" about the politicization of the Department of Justice in the Bush administration.That "brain" would be none other than former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove. Rove's lawyer sent a letter to the congressional committee yesterday saying his client wouldn't testify voluntarily. "Contrary to your letter of May 14, 2008, I do not misunderstand either the Committee's procedures or the scope of its interest in Mr. Rove; nor, in light of your reported remarks about the need for ...
Bush Innocent! So, No Right to Defend Himself?
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyFor just a moment, it seemed that bipartisanship had triumphed, that the higher good was achieved and an opportunity for political grandstanding had been foregone in favor of honest discernment. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, the Democrat leading an investigation into the Justice Department firing of nine federal prosecutors, stated that he believed the president at his word: President Bush was not involved in the firing. And, since he wasn't involved in the firing, he can't invoke executive privilege with regard to subpoenas Sen. Leahy is bringing against members of the ...
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