Conyers Threatens Subpoenas for DoJ Selective Prosecution DocumentsLast July, the House Judiciary Committee requested documents from the Justice Department about three cases that seemed to be the worst cases of selective prosecutions undertaken by George Bush’s DoJ. In each case, the U.S. attorney had pursued a flawed case that hurt a prominent Democrat.
Since that time, the Department has refused to turn over all but a few documents — though one of the produced emails showed a DoJ official troubled by one of the cases, the Georgia Thompson prosecution (the other two cases are ex-Gov. Don Siegelman (D-AL) and Cyril Wecht). And in a letter on Friday, Conyers warned Attorney General Michael Mukasey that if the Department did not take notice, “we will have little choice but to consider the compulsory process.” You can see that letter here.
Conyers included in his letter a three-page chart of requests (pdf) made by the committee that have gone unanswered by the Department. “We very much that the pending requests can be resolved voluntarily,” he writes.