White House to Harriet Miers: Wave Middle Finger at Stupid Dems

[Jerry Okamura]

"If" you were asked to testify, what would you do? The smart thing to do is
plead the fifth. The dumb thing to do, is open yourself up for a possible
criminal prosecution.

Apparently, many common criminals are a whole lot smarter than so-called
smart people, because they would not say anything that could get them in
trouble later.

"Patriot Games" <Crazy_Bastard@The_Beach.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/7/11/153355.shtml?s=us
>
> White House to Harriet Miers: Don't Testify
>
> President Bush ordered his former White House counsel, Harriet Miers, to
> defy a congressional subpoena and refuse to testify Thursday before a
> House panel investigating U.S. attorney firings.
>
> "Ms. Miers has absolute immunity from compelled congressional testimony as
> to matters occurring while she was a senior adviser to the president,"
> White House Counsel Fred Fielding wrote in a letter to Miers' lawyer,
> George T. Manning.
>
> Manning, in turn, notified committee chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., that
> Miers would not show up Thursday to answer questions about the White House
> role in the firings of eight federal prosecutors over the winter.
>
> Conyers, who had previously said he would consider pursuing criminal
> contempt citations against anyone who defied his committee' subpoenas,
> revealed the letters after former White House political director Sara
> Taylor testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
>
> Taylor said she knew of no involvement by the president in the firings of
> the U.S. attorneys.
>
> She irked senators by refusing to answer many questions from a panel
> investigating whether the firings were politically motivated. She said she
> was bound by Bush's position that White House conversations were protected
> by executive privilege.
>
> Conyers said of Miers, Bush's former White House lawyer, "As a former
> public official and officer of the court, Ms. Miers should be especially
> aware of the need to respect legal process, and we expect her to appear
> before the committee tomorrow as scheduled."
>
> Fielding said the Justice Department had advised the White House that
> Miers had absolute immunity from compelled congressional testimony.
>
> "The president has directed her not to appear at the House Judiciary
> Committee hearing on Thursday, July 12, 2007," Fielding wrote.
>
>

 

[Patriot Games]

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White House to Harriet Miers: Don't Testify

President Bush ordered his former White House counsel, Harriet Miers, to
defy a congressional subpoena and refuse to testify Thursday before a House
panel investigating U.S. attorney firings.

"Ms. Miers has absolute immunity from compelled congressional testimony as
to matters occurring while she was a senior adviser to the president," White
House Counsel Fred Fielding wrote in a letter to Miers' lawyer, George T.
Manning.

Manning, in turn, notified committee chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., that
Miers would not show up Thursday to answer questions about the White House
role in the firings of eight federal prosecutors over the winter.

Conyers, who had previously said he would consider pursuing criminal
contempt citations against anyone who defied his committee' subpoenas,
revealed the letters after former White House political director Sara Taylor
testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Taylor said she knew of no involvement by the president in the firings of
the U.S. attorneys.

She irked senators by refusing to answer many questions from a panel
investigating whether the firings were politically motivated. She said she
was bound by Bush's position that White House conversations were protected
by executive privilege.

Conyers said of Miers, Bush's former White House lawyer, "As a former public
official and officer of the court, Ms. Miers should be especially aware of
the need to respect legal process, and we expect her to appear before the
committee tomorrow as scheduled."

Fielding said the Justice Department had advised the White House that Miers
had absolute immunity from compelled congressional testimony.

"The president has directed her not to appear at the House Judiciary
Committee hearing on Thursday, July 12, 2007," Fielding wrote.

 

[Patriot Games]

"Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote in message
news:46961fa6$0$8960$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> "If" you were asked to testify, what would you do? The smart thing to do
> is plead the fifth. The dumb thing to do, is open yourself up for a
> possible criminal prosecution.

Good advice for an ordinary person.

But its pretty clear the Dems have nothing to do except harass Bush and his
Administration so Bush has decided to slap them around at every
opportunity....