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They've Gotta Have Feith
Former Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith had agreed to testify before a House Judiciary subommittee on interrogation techniques used on detainees, but when June 18 rolled around, Feith was nowhere to be found.
In response subcommittee chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) has announced that he will consider issuing a subpoena to force Feith's testimony at a subcommittee meeting tomorrow afternoon.
This is not the first time the House has been forced to issue a subpoena to attempt to compel testimony regarding interrogation techniques. David Addington, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, was subpoenaed in early May of this year.
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Why do they even bother with inviting or requesting that these guys come to testify?
Why don't they just start with the subpoena?
At this point it seems pretty clear that it's all a game to the Bush administration. And the object of the game is to run out the clock.
So they "agree" to show up, then just blow it off. And they win, what, a month, six weeks?
Then comes the subpoena. Then the claim of executive privilege -- on the deadline date of the subpoena. And so on, and so on...
-- ARG
June 23, 2008 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Feith, Addington, Hayden, Tenet, Wolfowitz, Ashcroft, Gonzales, most GOP senate and house "leaders," and a few others (esp: #1 Bush and #2 Cheney) need to be "waterboarded" to prep them to testify under oath about torture! But, wait ... if they're under oath why "waterboard" them to prep them, right? Or, vice versa ...
[I'm a retired Marine and former interrogator who knows the rules and the laws - I'd love to head up their interrogation] ...
http://www.danfrancis2008.com
June 23, 2008 6:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's just hope that there won't be anyone at the hearing who will make Doug cry. He's very sensitive, you know.
June 24, 2008 12:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
.........."But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security".
June 24, 2008 2:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
To remember how to pronounce his name, just think of Sheriff Andy's deputy: That's Barney Feith you're talking about...
June 24, 2008 8:04 PM | Reply | Permalink