Waxman agrees to investigate Clinton White House.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/11/waxman-agrees-to-investigate-clinton-white-house/

Waxman agrees to investigate Clinton White House.

As part of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation into the Bush White House’s potentially illegal partisan briefings at various government agencies, Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) has agreed to a request by Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) to determine whether Clinton did it too. The Clinton White House was thoroughly investigated both during and after its term. Waxman said he believes most of the documents Davis is seeking are already in the committee’s archives:

“You have asked that the committee make a number of document requests of the National Archives for records of the Clinton administration,” Waxman wrote. “The Clinton administration was subject to vastly more scrutiny by this committee than the Bush administration has been, and many of the records you seek may already be in the committee archives.

“However,” Waxman continued, “I do agree that the committee would benefit from requesting copies of any political briefings that the Office of Political Affairs in the Clinton administration may have given to federal agencies.” (…)

Waxman added that the committee’s “own archives of Clinton-era documents are so broad and voluminous that they should already contain” other documents Davis wanted, if they exist.

Vultures looking for rotting meat.

they keep ranting "Clinton did it too!" on every complaint against bush as if (1)it were true and (2)that made any difference

Good move on Henry's part - throw him a meaningless bone and then tell him to shut the fuck up

face. Sounds like a time-waster to me.

investigate Clinton WH for what purpose??

how about agreeing to something we Democrats have been asking of you for years:

LET SIBEL EDMONDS TESTIFY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

all over again...and time is wasted while another Clinton investigation goes on? This is disappointing to hear from Waxman. By now it would seem our Democrats could put a stop to this partisan witch hunting by Repugs. Yet, they seem to bend over backward to graciously agree with every request and every stonewalling. What is going on here? :shrug:

...they'll need to investigate the Bush administration to the same level of depth and detail for a proper comparison. For example, Clinton official A said this and that in his testimony; comparable Bush official B refused to appear before the committee or release comparable documents. This is a very shrewd response by Waxman, IMHO.

Waxman's no idiot.

Davis, on the other hand, is only making himself look petty and desperate.

But I trust Waxman. I agree, he's one of the best (Along with DK and Conyers)...:patriot:

Spit Clinton's penis out and move on with your life. Your boys Bush & Cheney are fucking WAR CRIMINALS.

With all that is going on, they're going back to investigating the Clintons???? Waxman should have told them all to go to hell. We'll talk about that OLD shit AFTER we get Rove, Maier's etc (list is too long)in here and face the music. WTF. First thing in the morning and I am already ratcheted up!

How could Davis or other Repubs object... oh wait, that's the Hypocrite Party...

godalmighty what a fucked up system we have.

What an outrage. Not only should the answer to such a request be "No," it shouldn't even be given until all requested documents have been delivered by the current administration.

I'm speechless beyond expletives...

Be a REAL oversight chairman.

Will Mr. Davis skulk off with his tail between his legs, humiliated beyond any hope of rehabilitation? Of course not. He'll then say that the evidence has been tampered with, and demand an investigation into the investigation. It never ends with the Republicans, and Waxman of all people should know this by now.

In Chertoff's record, shades of politics
His past at Justice may be a hurdle if he's picked to succeed Alberto Gonzales as attorney general.

By David G. Savage and Tom Hamburger, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
September 4, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-chertoff4sep04,1,4610879.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=true


WASHINGTON -- Shortly after President Bush took office in 2001, Michael Chertoff, then head of the Justice Department's criminal division, met with the conservative group Judicial Watch. It wanted criminal charges brought against Hillary Rodham Clinton in connection with a lavish fundraising event in Los Angeles the year before.

"Chertoff personally assured us he would pursue it," the group's president, Tom Fitton, said recently, recalling the meeting with several top Justice officials. "They said they weren't afraid of taking on the Clintons."

....

In the mid-1990s Chertoff, acting as counsel to an investigative committee led by then-Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato (R-N.Y.), led an aggressive investigation of then-President Clinton and his wife. He probed the Clintons' Arkansas real estate dealings, Hillary Clinton's Little Rock law firm, and the actions of her staff after the suicide of White House lawyer Vincent Foster.

At Justice, Chertoff set in motion a little-noticed policy change that led to more aggressive prosecutions. ..

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who the fuck is the majority these days anyway? it sure doesn't seem like the dems.