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Ousted Prosecutors to Testify before House And Senate Tomorrow
It looks like tomorrow will be something of an ousted prosecutor marathon on Capitol Hill.
Four of the fired prosecutors will be testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow morning before heading over to the House to testify in the afternoon.
(Update: In anticipation of tomorrow's hearing, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) put out the following statement: "The plot continues to thicken. No one believes anymore these U.S. Attorneys were fired for any good reason and we will start to uncover the real truth at our hearing on Tuesday.")
Last Friday, the Senate committee, following on the heels of the House's issuance of subpoenas to the four, sent out letters to six of the eight ousted prosecutors, requesting their testimony and informing them that the commmittee would consider issuing subpoenas if they did not accept. That strategy seems to have worked.
The four prosecutors who were already subpoenaed by the House (San Diego's Carol Lam, Seattle's John McKay, New Mexico's David Iglesias and Arkansas' Bud Cummins) have accepted the invitation and will be testifying at 10 AM tomorrow, according to a spokesperson for Sen. Schumer. Those same prosecutors will be testifying before the House at 2 PM.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will consider issuing subpoenas to the other two prosecutors (Nevada's Daniel Bogden and Arizona's Paul Charlton) on Thursday.
Update: Well, it looks like we'll be hearing from all six prosecutors tomorrow. The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a meeting tomorrow morning to vote on issuing subpoenas to both Bogden and Charlton. Assuming that the vote goes as it did last week, the two will testify along with the others tomorrow afternoon.
Comments (8)
Lib4 wrote on March 5, 2007 12:24 PM:DEMS had better put this all in its proper context....in both cases Walter Reed and the Prosecutor purge we have what can be described as a willingness by this adminstration to let politics trump policy and rule of law.
DEMS need to hang these issues on the Bush admin and the lax oversight commited by the 108 and 109th Congress and hope the media can put two and two together for once. (I know highly unlikely)
P J Evans wrote on March 5, 2007 12:30 PM:Not just the prosecutors and Walter Reed/VA. There's a real pattern of privatizing or politicizing everything they can get away with. Think FEMA, think air traffic control, think highways and ports.
harriet wrote on March 5, 2007 12:40 PM:go hard after speedy as he is the point man
EH wrote on March 5, 2007 1:48 PM:What a great idea, hopefully they can bring in world hunger and the Middle East peace process as well! I mean, if we're going to talk in context, we might as well be as precise as possible.
Johann wrote on March 5, 2007 4:09 PM:Just what can these ousted prosecutors tell us that we don't already know? How about a subpoena for Battles, the DOJ administrator who signed their dismissal letters. He should know who ordered him to send those letters. Subpoenas all the way to where those orders started. GO Dems.
What?! wrote on March 5, 2007 4:33 PM:Bogden question;
Who ordered the FBI/US Attorney Office raid on Congressman (now governor), Gibbons contributor/friend/"little brother" Warren Trepp's ex-business partner Dennis Montgomery?
Al in Austex wrote on March 6, 2007 5:54 AM:PJ Evans is on to something here -remember the Neo Thug ideology is to turn the Federal Government over to the "Free Market " Hence Joe Allbaugh outsourced his responsibilties at FEMAto the Private Sector.
epenisa wrote on January 11, 2008 3:41 AM:All of these contracts let by Republicans,paid for by We the People , are gamed so that the Friends of BushCo can gain maximum control and maximum profit. The common thread is the earmarks and the corrupt politicians - Good example of that is Brent Wilkes & the Dukester - USA Lam was all over that San Diego corruption & was fired for her good work.
Follow the corrupted money - it went to Iraq ,it went to New Orleans, it went to "black ops " in Lebanon - but it all statrd with Grover Norquist wanting to downsize the Federal Government "so he could drown the baby in the bath tub " .
By the way Gov Perry down here in Texas continues this NEO THUG charade - privatizing roadways already paid for by the tax payers -his political contributors making huge profits at our expense.
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