Yoo, Feith, Ashcroft Agree to Testify; Subpoena Authorized For Addington

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Yoo, Feith, Ashcroft Agree to Testify
By Paul Kiel - May 6, 2008, 10:47AM


Earlier this morning, the House Judiciary Committee authorized a subpoena for David Addington, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, to testify about the administration's torture policy.

And now the AP reports that John Yoo, probably the most infamous of the infamous characters that walked the halls of the Justice Department during the Bush administration, has agreed to testify as well without compulsion. That's a departure from his original position, when he said that he could not testify about his role in authorizing the use of torture because he had not received the green light from the DoJ.

The AP adds: "Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith, and former Assistant Attorney General Dan Levin have also agreed to give testimony at a future hearing. Former CIA Director George Tenet is still in negotiations with the committee."

"I don't recalls" are we going to hear??? Bastards, they should not be still walking around free.

:sarcasm:

but the proof and Truth will slowly get out

Bush will probably pardon them as he leaves but thats OK cause he will be signing his protection of war criminals letter when he does

Do these men, for the work they did for the government, answer to the people's representatives or not? What is this "negotiations" nonsense?

Lordy, I'm so tired of this damned administration.

Aren't we still waiting for Gonzales and Harriet Miers? WTF is up with that? :grr:

The system is FUBAR.

America needs to know whether republicon moonies are the ones dragging us down into the bowels of Hell.

...I can't WAIT to see Addington try and squirm his way out of this one...

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that "executive privilege" shit must end.

claim executive privilege because they aren't the "executive"

years ago--i forget who, but they testified without being sworn in

during the hearing on domestic surveillance. Thanks, Arlen.:sarcasm:

Ted Kennedy was pissed.

On edit: Added the sarcasm smilie just in case anyone misinterpreted.

(if memory serves me correctly)

when they're expected to testify.

I wish I could be in DC the day these torturers testify.

LOL. :hi:

but something tells me those three wouldn't have agreed to that.

If it's "voluntary" (i.e. not under oath), it doesn't mean shit. We will learn nothing, but they'll be able to say "hey, we testified!" and we will have learned NOTHING.

That is what I want to hear, those asswipes pleading the 5th.

He's an unusual guy. His agenda with the RW is his personal morality. Remember how he covered the statues? I think that when something runs directly counter to his moral code he is less inclined to violate it.
9\11 provided moral justifications for violating civil liberties. That was never his strong suit anyway. "The only people who have anything to worry about are the ones who are doing something wrong" right?
Torture might have hit a nerve, though.
It will be interesting to hear what he has to say.

He does have his limits on what he will go along with.
He didn't seem enthusiastic about allowing Torture.

No Chairman Shilly-Shally, torture does not demand "scrutiny and oversight."

It demands action. (Read the treaties.) Impeach or get off the pot.

Give Wexler the gavel and watch how a real leader acts.

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Make no mistake. This failure to impeach is losing the election to McCain. It wreaks weakness. And Friedman has already exposed the plan to trumpet "strong and wrong" as better than "weak and right" out of the Mighty Euphemedia Wurlitzer.

If Hillabama were going to cut it, we'd see that in polls by now. It's not there and not coming. It's impeachment or uninterupted bushcheneyism (yes, really -- or are you under the delusion that cheney needs his stinking "I'm the veep" badge to pull McCain's puppet strings?)

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