Democrats on Committee Threaten to Subpoena Karl Rove About Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman’s Prosecution
WASHINGTON - Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee Thursday threatened to subpoena former White House adviser Karl Rove to testify about former Gov. Don Siegelman’s case unless he agrees to appear voluntarily by May 12.
Rove earlier this week offered to answer questions about the Alabama case privately and not under oath, but that offer was rejected as “completely unacceptable.”
“We simply do not understand why anyone who is prepared to tell the truth would object to an oath and a record of what is said,” the Democrats wrote to Rove’s attorney Thursday.
The committee, led by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has been investigating allegations that Siegelman’s prosecution was orchestrated by politically motivated Republicans, and last month invited Rove to testify at what would be a second hearing on the subject.
It is the latest confrontation over whether President Bush’s senior advisers are covered by executive privilege as part of the broader investigation into the firings of several U.S. attorneys. Democrats in Congress and the White House have been battling on that issue for months and litigation is pending in federal court.
But Rove, through his attorney, said he could address the Siegelman case separately from the U.S. attorney scandal and would agree to answer questions limited to that subject.
“We recognize the committee’s legitimate interest in putting to rest the baseless and unsubstantiated charges that have been made by Governor Siegelman and others about his prosecution,” wrote Robert Luskin, Rove’s attorney. Luskin proposed that the interview with committee staff not be transcribed or under oath.
Democrats objected to those terms, saying Rove has already discussed the case publicly with reporters and that the Siegelman case is related to their overall concerns about the politicization of the Department of Justice under the Bush administration. They also said the limited questioning would “frustrate a full and fair inquiry.”
Siegelman, who served nine months of his sentence and is now free on bond awaiting his appeal, has asserted for six years that he was unfairly targeted by Republicans. More specifically, the Democrat has argued that Rove considered him a political threat to Alabama Republicans and pressured federal prosecutors to pursue criminal charges.
Rove and the prosecutors have denied it, and Siegelman was convicted in 2006 by a federal jury in Montgomery on corruption-related charges.
The House Judiciary Committee has not announced a date for another hearing on Siegelman’s case, or whether Siegelman himself would be called as a witness.
Conyers’ letter was also signed by Reps. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham; Linda Sanchez, D-Calif.; and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.
E-mail: morndorff@bhamnews.com
© 2008 The Birmingham News
No oath binds the liars and subversives who make up the regime currently destroying the government of the People. Hook these lying scum up to a polygraph while they are questioned in court.
When I look at events since the ‘06 election, it appears to me that very few of our elected officials have the integrity to represent American citizens (read BALLS). Conyers and the rest of the criminals in Washington make noise, and then go along with bush and the rest of the republican jerks.
Impeach, impeach, im……………
Oh yeah, I forget, you electected officials, with few exceptions, are cowards.
Yeah, take this as a challenge to do better.
It’s always a threat to take action but no action is ever taken. Spineless Dems and criminal repugs abound but nothing ever gets done. I’m pretty sick of it as are many others. I’d like to see Karl Rove in an orange jump suit but I doubt that will ever happen with the current leadership we have in both the House and the Senate. Rove should rot in jail for what he has wrought. He is not just a criminal but a terribly short-sighted man as well. His brand of politics has brought us to the brink of fascism with an imperial presidency. He is also a traitor for his role in the Valerie Plame case. Hanging is too good for him and as I am against the death penalty he should rot in prison for the remainder of his days. But talk is cheap and the Democrats have no will of their own. So life goes on without justice which is not unusual here in our so-called ‘nation of laws.’
“Democrats on Committee Threaten to Subpoena Karl Rove.”
Why don’t those cry baby pussys just say, “Ooh you making me so mad.” and stamp their feet. Jesus; Just subpoena the lying bastard. What the hell is the matter with these people? No wait, don’t answer that. It’ll scare me.
Oooh– Democrats threatening to issue subpoenas again!
Rove must be shaking in his boots! After all, if he ignores the threat, they may go so far as to actually issue the subpoena! And if he defies the subpoena– under the advice of counsel, of course, perhaps Weepin’ Mike Mukasey himself– then the Dems will drag out their Big Gun: the Sternly-Worded Letter!
And that’ll pretty much be the end of it.
Good luck dems trying to subpoena any repug. You helped stack the Scalito Court. Even if any were subpoena’d, they’d just use the Gonzo strategy - I don’t recall; I can’t remember; screw you!
This gov’t is a lost cause and it’s getting loster everyday.
Subpoena him, then waterboard him, since that is not illegal.
Carl Rove needs to feel the ostracism of the American public whenever he ventures out. He should be shunned were ever he goes.
Rove has earned the contempt of any decent, law abiding person in this country. His actions have poisoned the sacred ground of democracy with his Swift boat attacks, rigging elections, “losing” thousands of emails that showed a trail of partisan corruption of the justice dept and their dealings throughout the country.
America can regain some of her lost reputation if the LAW can get this little bastard into court and then, into jail.
THIS MAN IS A PIG!
FOR ME..THE TERM “COCKSUCKER” IS MORE…A TERM OF..ENDERMENT!..HOWEVER..
YOU KNOW WHAT? I THINK A STORY THAT HAS BEEN AVOIDED AND MISSED IS THE TRUE TALE OF ONE OF THE MORE VICIOUS BREEDS OF OFFICIOUS LOYALIST FASCISTS…THE “CLOSETED REPUBLICAN QUEER” NOW..I AM NOT ANTI GAY…SO GET OFF OF THAT…I AM ANTI HYPOCRITE HOWEVER..AND I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THE STORY OF KARL AND HIS BOY TOY..REMEMBER THE GUY… THAT WAS ..PLACED IN THE PRESS BRIEFINGS..TURNED OUT OT BE A GAY MODEL AND ESCORT..INTO SOME CROOKED SHIT..AND SOMEHOW..AND IT WAS..NEVER REALLY FOLLOWED UP..FOR SOME REASON..GOT ALL THESE SUPER DUPER CREDENTIALS…DO YOU RECALL THAT?
KARL WAS HIS “CONTACT” DER KARL..THE OBERGRUPPENFURER OF RAT FUCKING IS SO OBVIOUSLY A CLOSETED HOMOSEXUAL THAT IT IS AMAZING HE GOT AWAY WITH IT…LOOK AT HIS SOFT BABY FEATURES..THE UTTER..LACK OF ANY TESTOSTERONE IS …BEYOND DENIAL..HIS FLABBY “GYNOCOMASTIA’..(AKA “BITCH TITS”) HIS..WELL..YOU CAN JUST SEE HIM WITH A COCK IN HIS MOUTH..
NOW..AGAIN..COCKSUCKERS? LOVE EM!..NEED EM! THE WORLD WOULD BE ALONLEY PLACE WITHOUT EM’
BUT..STUPID REPUBLICAN HYPOCRITES..WELL NOT “STUPID” SAY…”VICIOUS” WHO RUIN THE LIVES OF OTHERS..WHILE HIDING THEIR OWN BASIC HUMAN NEEDS…WELL..THAT IS CALLED..HYPOCRACY…YOU DIG?
AND FOR DER KARL..IT IS A BIG ONE..JUST LIKE HE LIKES IT…AND I THINK HE REALLY GOT AWAY WITH ALLOT..AND MAYBE..JUST MAYBE…HE SHOULD BE CALLED THE HYPOCRITE THAT HE IS…BUT DON’T CALL HIM A COCKSUCKER…IT’S JUST…NOT THE SAME THING…
Good thing for Rove that Congress is only talking out their behinds. The powerless bunch of bobblehead wimps will just cry when he fails to show up. They squandered their authority long ago and don’t even have enough power to get the janitor to vaccuum the floor.
Karl will just laugh and say “Yeah right!” as they all lament.
As a loyal democrat (not), all I can say is that this Rove guy makes me so mad I could spit, but if I do get the courage to really spit, I’ll make sure that I do it in the proper receptacle, out of sight, so as not to offend anyone, gosh darn it all.
……just go ahead and subpoena the fat, lying dingleberry! Drop it on him!!
I’m with “limric” above, just subpoena the slime already! Not that it will do any good. If by some miracle, they decide to throw him under the bus and let him be convicted of this one (out of innumerable crimes), he’ll just be pardoned by Bush faster than we can say, “Scooter Libby.”
I read some place that Laura Bush’s nickname for him is “Pigpen”. Looks like, acts like, smells like.
He’s a pig, alright.
None of those assh-les want to be held accountable for anything
Pigs are cleaner than he is and they are sweet, so get over the animal name calling. He’s a slime. Just a piece of used up shit. I want to see all these bastards in prison. Behind bars. Rotten bastards.
Subpoena, schamena. Do you really think this scmuck would comply with a subpoena? From this congress of farking eunuchs? Some shyster lawyer will send a letter from a law firm with the names of a dozen former congressmen and senators on the letterhead to Conyers. the letter will some off the farking wall MUS (made up sh*t)why Rove does have have to testify. Conyers will wring his hands in despair and do nothing OR appeal tothe the Queen of Hearts Federal Court for the Washington District where some fascist judge(appointed by Reagan the dunce, or Bush the Dim or Bush the Delusional) ruling
“Sounds good to me. What’s say Karl, golf Saturday?”
Looks like Rove has a part time job with Fox. Just in time as Geraldo is really getting tired of all that s__t they make hin say about Obama and Rev Wright. Rupert and Hill are buds, right?
Democrats on the committee: FOLLOW THROUGH FOR ONCE.
You Democrats going to do something or is this more talk? Rove doesn’t give a damn what you think. Do something. Will you follow through for once?
Considering Rove helped architect the jailing of Siegelman in a manner not unfamiliar in places like Zimbabwe, Belarus, & Burma, it is the Congressional Democrats interest to pursue this as it could have very well been them hauled off to jail if they had angered Bush’s brain. Poetic justice would have Siegelman suing Rove and his puppets in the Alabama US Attorney’s office for false imprisonment & having those scum bags had their wages attached to pay off the judgement. The impossible dream is that Rove see the inside of the same jail he sent Siegelman to.
Hope springs eternal that someone will take big bite out this guy’s juicy head sooner or later.
Democrats won’t do sh*t. Rove is laughing at all of them.
pbrsailor:
In re: “When I look at events since the `06 election, it appears to me that very few of our elected officials have the integrity to represent American citizens…”
Why only look since the `06 election? What about since the the 2000 election cycle and trhe events that ensued; or since Bonzo Reagan and the Nefarious elder Bush were elected?
I question your use of “election” since this implies that such officials were duly elected by a democratic electoral process rather than the more accurate albeit dubious hand selected Neocon chicanery/skull duggery.
Jezuzkrist Crumb, what’s with the ALL CAPS shit huh?
“We simply do not understand why anyone who is prepared to tell the truth would object to an oath and a record of what is said,” the Democrats wrote to Rove’s attorney Thursday.
Why have Democrats agreed (over the past seven years) to allow top officials at Congressional hearings bypass the customary oath if the truth means so much to them?
At least they’ve been consistant in expressing their pseudo-concern for truth and our Constitution. Both parties deserve recognition for their steadfast and fallacious performances.
Democrats on Committee Threaten and Never Follow Up!
They are all afraid of the Chimp.
He might do another Dance.
On their Funking Heads.
They know the Truth but are arfraid to say it!
Papa Shrub and the Corpirate Neo-Nazis are waiting behind the Curtain.
With barrels aimed at their heads.
The Corpirate Mafia runs Americo now.
It is their turf.
Just as Drudge Scallier the Black Pariah says;
What are you?!
Talking about.
Popes
Dopes and
Schmucks.
A Dark Army is camped in the Homeland.
They are ready do what ever The Rats-child tells them.
Cous, Assignations, Controlled Demolitions, Porpaganda, Phony WARS!
Its all in the open now.
Their cards are on the table.
they are ready, willing and able to do whatever it takes to stay in Power even if it includes killing you.
Billionaires -R-Us are in control and you are the Patsy.
The whole system was created and built by them to control you.
From Crib to Grave.
All I know is?
The more we find out,
The Worst it gets.
The Worst it gets and People are really getting jumpy.
They are in a quandary.
Unable to figure a way out of this mess.
That’s what happens when you are programed to follow instead of capable of thinking on your own.
The War God is Dead.
The Religion of Greed and Violence is ending.
Are you better off then you were 8 years ago?
Something is terribly wrong!
Stop worshiping the Golden Calf and chasing the carrot.
Start over.
Shut down,
Clean House
REBOOT!
One hand washes the other.
The FAUX Network and her five sisters are
Pulling you off.
Then The Chimp, Rovien and Dead Eye take turns hitting you in the A-s!
Safe Sex!
The American People are running around with
Armor Plated Undies.
Stick to the facts Jack!
Run to the hills Bill and never look back.
Are some of you folks just now finding out that Congress and most Americans are scared of the Bush Gang?
Run for the hills? No way…. I have been defying these bastards since I was a Cold War Kid. Whenever you confront them, they hide.
Some of you folks are just as afraid as Congress and spread your fear by “the Nazis are coming and Be afraid!”…. With that kind of fear mongering going on here all the time how hypocritical to single out Congress of being afraid.
The War Machine needs fear to grow and never end and too many here are supplying them with the needed endless fear.
The truth is it is them that are the cowards and the bluffers, and you give them all the power they need with your fear mongering.
War Babies, it is time to grow up!
I can’t help but notice all the pictures of Americans are all obese people. We are becoming identified by our girth as opposed to other populations.
Hasn’t this in-the-closet hypocrite been subpoenaed already, on some other crime he’s perpetrated on the American Constitution? Haul his fat lying ass in, or toss it into Guantánamo where he belongs.
Yes Crumb, I remember the Jeff Gannon prostitue/fake reporter incident. The press couldn’t get away from that story fast enough, and yet, couldn’t get enough of Monica’s stained blue dress. I’d venture to guess, though, that Bush has had a taste of Guckert/Gannon himself as he had homosexual encounters as a skull and bones at Yale. “Hypocrites” is an apt description, but somehow doesn’t even begin to measure the depths of depravity and evil that Bush and Rove have unleashed on the entire planet. With all that family history with Nazi’s it’s no wonder. Could we the people just get one patriot to release one picture of Bush/Rove in the act? You know, that Great Oz moment? But wait, there actually is a photograph of Bush tenderly holding Guckert’s head. Reminds me of Clinton and Lewinsky which got endless press….www.mysite.verizon.net/myk15/bushhugsmanho.html
YUK!
I don’t know why they are threatening subpoenas, or anything for that matter? Why don’t they just do it? I’ll volunteer to draft them myself. The democratic controlled congress reminds us of the German Sheppard that barks and growls at you from the fence as you are walking down the steet. But when you walk up to the fence in it’s direction it runs away scared, but still barking at you. Trying to hide under the house barking from a safe distance. The fact of the matter is this “democracy” as many have noted and is true pertaining to the educational system, and the economic system……is a complete scam.
http://www.bccmeteorites.com/misconduct-planetary.html
SRD
Subpoena him? Throw the sorry SOB in jail!