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Rep. Conyers On U.S. Attorney Investigation: 'We Have To Keep The Process Working'
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said today that he's still pushing to question Bush administration officials about the U.S. attorney firings.
"All the breadcrumbs, as we call them, go right to the White House," Conyers said in a speech to the National Press Club this afternoon.
"We have to keep the process working," he said.
Conyers said he's pushing for a "blue ribbon panel" to investigate the firings, "a 9/11-type panel ... so that we can publicly go into what we talked about and have been doing," he said. No congressmen would sit on the panel, he said. It would operate in the public eye, as opposed to the special prosecutor he's been asking Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint.
He also said the committee is trying to enforce the subpoenas against former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and former Chief of Staff Josh Bolten.
"You get around to everyone saying I can't come, (citing) executive privilege, I can't answer these questions," Conyers said. "But wait a minute! You don't know what questions we're gonna ask. And besides, if we ask one that you think deserves to be challenged, we'll set it aside and see if we can work something out. But the blanket (argument that) anybody near the White House doesn't have to come to a hearing, that wouldn't wash in my son's freshman class...much less with me."
On Bolten, Conyers said, "He's got a lot of documents."
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Illegal Secrets, Illegal wars and funding therof, Illegal Renditions, Torture, Illegal, false and fraudulent Signing Statements, FISA Suppresion and many other High Crimes and misdemeanors are not covered by the false and fraudulent use of 'Executive Privilage'.
You do not need a so-called blue ribbon panel.
You need a special prosecutor and our US Senatorial and Congressional Leaders to do their job of representing 'We the People' and not suppresing and holding our US Democratic Government 'Nugatory'.
Impeach Bush et all and as necessary Obama et all, NOW!!
Why not ask Rep. Chairman Conyers for an update on his 'Presidential Powers and Its Limitations' "Impeachment Hearings' NOW!!
While your at it, ask President Obama about his 2nd Signing Statement which, as reported Enhanced Retaliations against 'Whistleblowers' 'Truthtellers' and is opposite of his written promise to the National Whistleblower Center' to support Whistleblowers, Truthtellers.
Also ask President Obama about his assigned AG Representative whom tesitfied, at best, to delay Justice = 'Justice Delayed is Justice Denied'.
While your at it, ask President Obama as he ran against the inactment of the Death penalty, that he in fact wrote inactment of Death penalty legislation and during his Campaign actually advocated for the execution anactment of a minor and/or a disabled person.
While your at it, ask President Obama and US Senate Judicary Committee why he choose Holder as US Attorney General (whom as ot was reported was against the enactment of the death penalty) as to Holder as Top Attorney under President Regan//Negroponte 'School of the Americas' in the Iran Contra and the Death Squads in Nicaragua, Guatamela ecetra and the top Attorney with Dole Foods and/or Chiquita in those corrupt many items that are continuing to this day and as recently reported on DemocracyNow.org and archived for public viewing.
Ask Rep Conyers and his Committee NOW!! as it could easily be presumed he and his Committee must have, and as stated, an abundance of additional Information, ecetra.
July 24, 2009 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Conyers and Leahy are blowhards, good only for banging their desks, expressing righteous indignation then sending strongly worded missives.
Both of them are as phony as a 3 dollar bill.
July 25, 2009 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
"On Bolten, Conyers said, "He's got a lot of documents."
....and we've got a lot of eyes.
Surely many others are pondering the same conclusion.
Seems to me a Conyers-generated doc-dump to TPM, on a weekly basis, would give all the eagle-eyes who picked out the needles in previous haystacks an opportunity to counter the seeming mountain of information with some bona-fide info-mountain climbers.
And of course, I speak of the TPM readers who have proven their ability to sift through the deepest rubble to sort out the rare gems from the gravel, all in record time.
Seriously,though, if,through any medium, this information could be released in segments, regularly, for perusal and dissection on the web, it would be an interesting exercise in something akin to "public jurisdiction."
Sounds dangerously democratic.
Viva la blogs!
July 26, 2009 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Given Rep. Conyers stalling on impeachment for years he is unlikely to do anything on investigation or prosecution, even of the torturers,
UNLESS WE Raise Holy Hell If They Don't!!!!
Give'em Hell!
Phone, Fax, Email, Send Letters and
SIGN THE PETITIONS
Demanding
both a Commission of Inquiry
and a Special Prosecutor
For All Their Crimes
at ANGRYVOTERS.ORG
http://ANGRYVOTERS.ORG
You should also
contact AG Holder directly &
Demand a Special Prosecutor.
Department of Justice Switchboard - 202-514-2000
Office of the AG - 202-353-1555
Email: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
CALL "YOUR" CONGRESSMAN & SAY "Investigate!"
NOW!
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July 26, 2009 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Someone shoulf tell Conyers that it is not the process that is important, it is the use of that process to get results. So far, results from his "processes" have been sadly lacking.
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July 26, 2009 10:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think that Rep. Conyers is acting stupidly. As our president like to say. He should just go and have another beer with the other Senators on the Judicary Committee. Oh yea and his wife might be able to assist him if she is out of jail..
July 27, 2009 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
It seems to me that we heard this set of promises in 2006 -- "if only we Dems had a majority in the House." We heard it, we responded, and as soon as the Dems took over, Nancy Pelosi took impeachment off the table and Cong. Conyers did absolutely nothing about anything. We now have a Democrat in the White House, Democrats nominally running the House and the Senate, and Cong. Conyers STILL hasn't done anything.
And with every day that passes, another set of crimes against the American people gets immunized through the Statute of Limitations. Already, it's too late to do anything about the Cheny-Bush outing of Valerie Plame and the associated sabotaging of America's ability to track Iranian weapons of mass destruction. It's too late to try to recoup much of the money stripmined from the Treasury and poured lavishly over Cheney's "no bid" contract buddies. It's almost too late to hold the true perpetrators of the crimes at Abu Ghraib accountable. And so on. And so on. And so on.
John Conyes, better late than never. But don't expect thanks, because you don't deserve them.
July 27, 2009 8:24 PM | Reply | Permalink