(Oye!) White House rejects ‘tone’ of Dems’ inquiry

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/white-house-rejects-tone-of-dems-inquiry-2007-07-09.html

White House rejects ‘tone’ of Dems’ inquiry
By Klaus Marre
July 09, 2007

Presidential counsel Fred Fielding on Monday accused the chairmen of the Senate and House judiciary committees of having already made up their minds to escalate a fight with the White House over access to documents and staffers.

In again denying Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) access to former White House counsel Harriet Miers and an aide to Karl Rove, Sara Taylor, Fielding took issue with the tone that congressional investigators struck in recent correspondence.

“We are troubled to read the letter’s charge that the president’s ‘assertion of executive privilege belies any good faith attempt to determine where privilege truly does and does and does not apply,’” Fielding said in response to a June 29 letter from Leahy and Conyers.

The White House counsel prefaced his response with “a note of concern over your letter’s tone and apparent direction in dealing with a situation of this gravity.”

Fielding also said the only conclusion that can be reached from how the June 29 letter is worded is that “the committees have already prejudged the question” of whether Bush has the authority to assert executive privilege and whether the subpoenas should be enforced.

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America is pretty concerned with the 'tone' coming from the White House. Ignoring subpoenas. Destroying evidence. Outing COVERT CIA agents. Starting a war based on lies. Corruption. Cronyism.

All good reasons to be suspect that something foul is going on in the White House.

FFF!

You are forewarned!

call it cheating and whine to the public how unfair it is.

I'd suggest you look in the mirror for the cause of that and many more problems but you most likely would not throw a reflection. My tone has changed considerably since you bastards started thinking the constitution just doesn't fucking apply to you and your supporters. How's that for tone ya bitch?

What you said, BOSSHOG!

:thumbsup:

The balls these people have to refuse to comply with the law and then reject the "tone" of the inquiry?

question of whether Bush has the authority to assert executive privilege in this case based on the past Supreme Court rulings. Guess I've 'prejudged the question' too.

There is no other option now.

If the pretensions of the Executive branch, to establish a dictatorship are not high crimes, and an outrageous injury to the Constitution and the Separation of Powers , I don't know what is.

Sara Taylor was a aide to a political hack-kkkarl rove. Why should she be allowed priviledge?

then Xpriv goes out the window am I correct in that?

...and then when you scream...they say....

"you don't have to scream at me like that"....

This is the childish way the White House is behaving...they break the rules over and over again...and like a child they say..."I don't like the tone you are using with me..."

That sums it up in a nutshell.

Now can the Democrats find someone to say that exact same thing out loud on one of the talking head shows in the corporate media and just repeat it and repeat it.

Executive privilege my arse, they're subverting the Constitution of the US and they f*cking know it.

They, who are of "good faith", demand executive privilege because they are above the law & are entitled to resist all oversight at all costs. They are entitled to change the rules if they don't like them. The stonewalling at every turn & the obfuscatory non-replies given during oversight hearings are justified. And, dammit, none of their staff members should testify against them unless there are no oaths given (to ensure against perjury charges) or no transcripts taken (to ensure that their testimonies won't be scrutinized & checked).

It seems they've added more than a few pages to Nixon's Policies & Procedures Manual.

"a note of concern over your letter's tone"? Who writes this crap?