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House Judiciary Subpoenas the RNC
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ABC News' Jason Ryan Reports: The House Judiciary Committee has issued subpoenas to the Republican National Committee for e-mails and documents relating to the U.S. attorney firings.
In a letter to Robert Duncan, Chairman of the RNC, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., notified Duncan of the enclosed “subpoena for e-mail documents to be produced to the House Judiciary Committee."
"These are the e-mails, written by White House officials on their RNC e-mail accounts, pertaining to the Committee's investigation into the circumstances surrounding the termination of at least nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006."
The subpoena instructs the RNC to turn over related documents by July 17, 2007 at 10:00am.
The issuance of this subpoena comes one day after former White House counsel Harriet Miers defied her own Congressional subpoena by refusing to show up to testify before the committee on the U.S. attorneys matter.
In a separate letter, Conyers wrote to Miers attorney George Manning Friday, saying, "We were very disappointed that your client Harriet Miers disobeyed the subpoena served on her and did not even appear-much less testify or produce documents as required-before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law."
“Ms. Miers is required pursuant to the subpoena to appear in order to testify and produce documents," the letter continued.
“This letter is to formally notify you that we must insist on compliance with the subpoena, and that your client's failure to promptly mitigate her noncompliance could subject her to contempt proceedings,” Conyers wrote.
Thursday, Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., chair of the House Administrative Law subcommittee, ruled to reject President Bush’s claim of executive privilege as legally invalid. The subcommittee voted 7-5 in favor of her ruling.
July 13, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (5)
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What's the chance that President Bush attempts to prevent this through some stretch of his executive privilege?
Posted by: Aaron | Jul 13, 2007 5:20:33 PM
whats new with the bush-ROVE switch game?
Posted by: CHARLES | Jul 15, 2007 2:56:55 AM
Every step in this process takes us closer to what became the third article of impeachment for President Nixon - failure to comply with subpoenas.
Posted by: bob crawford | Jul 15, 2007 9:59:10 AM
The Congress needs to flex some muscle here. They need to put Miss Miers in jail on contempt charges. They have the authority. Nows the time to use it. It will show Bush that they mean business. It might also rattle some others and cause second doubts about holding out.
Posted by: cliff jones | Jul 15, 2007 10:30:17 AM
"They need to put Miss Miers in jail on contempt charges. They have the authority..." for not complying with subpoenas? Gosh half the Clinton Admin would be imprisoned, including the current Dem front runner for Prez.
Posted by: zappaman | Jul 17, 2007 2:06:34 PM
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