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Mukasey on White House's Privilege Claim: "Huh?"
Here's something else you never would have heard from Alberto Gonzales.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) quizzed Mukasey about one specific assertion of executive privilege by the White House in the U.S. attorney firings probe -- namely their claim that correspondence with people outside the White House were covered by privilege and should not be turned over to Congress. The case Schumer mentioned referred to an email from the chairman of the New Mexico Republican Party to the White House about New Mexico's U.S. attorney, David Iglesias.
After a preamble about how he could see certain circumstances where outside communication might be covered by privilege, Mukasey told Schumer that he'd read the letter from the White House counsel's office claiming privilege for such communications. "I will admit to you that my first reaction to that section of the letter was, 'Huh?'" But he added that he'd like "to take a closer look at the facts" before that was his final reaction.
Comments (14)
huh wrote on October 17, 2007 4:29 PM:Huh!
oldtree wrote on October 17, 2007 4:49 PM:gosh it seems wrong all rightie. might be a crime, gee. I guess I have to check with someone that will tell me what to think?
the written transcripts of this are so nearly meaningless and scripted? Are they playing to the people that would otherwise be watching soap operas right now? where is the substance that trumps having answers about the last AG that seems to have committed criminal acts? Why isn't he standing before congress to answer to charges? Why didn't the shooter have to comply with the document request that shows crimes admitted to by same?
chisholm wrote on October 17, 2007 4:52 PM:Our country is a meaningless parade of boobs trying to mangle each other and just sort of move on if anything tragic might affect them. Tragic like a hangnail.
"I need to take a closer look at the facts" is the evasive, John Roberts money shot. This statement, right here, is why Mukasey was nominated. Poor Leahy!
Carolyn wrote on October 17, 2007 5:03 PM:As Reagan so famously said, "There you go again." Same old lies, same old rollover.
Joe Bonham wrote on October 17, 2007 5:05 PM:This is pathetic.
You'd think somebody like Leahy from New England could tell when he was being snowed under...
nellieh wrote on October 17, 2007 5:19 PM:Lucy pulls the football away again!
jdw wrote on October 17, 2007 6:03 PM:Mukasey says all the right words to get the job. Like Roberts, he'll turn out to be a Admin Stooge just as expected.
jrcjr wrote on October 17, 2007 6:53 PM:John
seems like the white house deliberately put up a compromise nominee, and then won't release the docs dems have demanded before they'll approve anyone.
so it potentially puts the dems in the uncomfortable position of not approving mukasey, leaving the interim loyal bushie in charge, because the documents won't be provided. white house looks like they're compromising but instead keep the bushie they wanted all along.
or the dems approve mukasey and don't get the wh docs.
either way the white house wins.
Mark Richards wrote on October 17, 2007 7:02 PM:Another shill for the maladministration. Says what they want to hear and will then turn tail to pick up where gonzo left off.
Why do these idiot Democrats trust this maladministration - at all - with anything?
Why is it the electorate is smarter?
These so-called representatives have to be deluded.
Chris Purcell wrote on October 17, 2007 9:21 PM:Why do the Democrats continue to believe that GWB would select anyone who wouldn't do his bidding at this point?
jim hallahan wrote on October 17, 2007 9:40 PM:Either the White House staff told Mukasey that it's cool for him to oppose Bush or they said we're going get you confirmed the same way we got Roberts in.
jim hallahan wrote on October 17, 2007 9:40 PM:Either the White House staff told Mukasey that it's cool for him to oppose Bush or they said we're going get you confirmed the same way we got Roberts in.
parrot wrote on October 18, 2007 2:08 AM:Huh? What about...'nope'?
ihatebeets wrote on October 18, 2007 9:26 AM:The game of "I'll say whatever you want to hear so I get confirmed, then follow whatever plan the Bush Adiminstration has without question," should have ended when Gonzalez resigned and the Judiciary committee knew an AG confirmation lay ahead of them. How many times do we have to have our faces rubbed in this excrement - Gonzalez, Roberts, Alito, etc. etc.??