Taylor to accept subpoena.
By on Jun 13th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Taylor to accept subpoena.
A lawyer representing freshly subpoenaed Sara Taylor, the former Rove deputy and White House political director, said today he “would accept the subpoena issued by the Senate Judiciary Committee in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys.”
But that doesn’t mean Taylor will testify. The White House appears likely to assert executive privilege try to block the subpoena. That would set up a court fight. [...]
It’s thought to be unlikely that Taylor would seek any kind of immunity, as former Justice Department official Monica Goodling did.
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Subpoena Rove!!
June 13th, 2007 at 4:56 pmI echo Tom 3’s demand…
Subpoena Rove!!!!!
June 13th, 2007 at 4:57 pmHow can the WH evoke EP when the conversation about the firings didn’t involve the presidentt?
Unless….
June 13th, 2007 at 4:58 pmIt’s time to get the whole White House under subpoena and then bring in a Special Prosecutor to handle the impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney. If the Democrats want to look like the party in control then that is precisely what they MUST do!!
June 13th, 2007 at 4:59 pmBottom line – Taylor is “accepting” a subpoena knowing that she may not have to testify. How courageous of her.
This is just another tactic designed to obfuscate and delay.
June 13th, 2007 at 5:00 pmHow can you REFUSE a subpoena? I mean — they’re not invitations to a fricking party.
June 13th, 2007 at 5:04 pmCan the White House claim executive privilege when the e-mails that were released yesterday, showing Taylor’s and Jennings absolute involvement and thereby causing the subpoenas, were sent on their Republican National Committe e-mail accounts? That system is outside the realm of the Presidential Records act.
June 13th, 2007 at 5:07 pmThe White House will stall because they know after Taylor and Meier, next up is Rove.
June 13th, 2007 at 5:36 pm#4 Bill
It’s time to get the whole White House under subpoena and then bring in a Special Prosecutor to handle the impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney. If the Democrats want to look like the party in control then that is precisely what they MUST do!!
I say we stomp our feet and shake our fists at them.
June 13th, 2007 at 5:52 pmBaby Doc George can claim EP, even though thre is clearly no grounds for it. It gets kicked into the court system and won’t be resolved until after January of 2009 and the pukes get away with it.
June 13th, 2007 at 6:03 pmI think this requires some PR work. Frame it as such: Bush and Rove have no interest in getting to the facts. If they did, they’d let these people testify under oath. The only reason not to have them under oath is to allow them to lie. It’s just that simple, and the public can understand it.
It’s just like the 9/11 Commission hearings when they tried to get Bush to testify. He wouldn’t do it under oath and had to have Cheney with him. Why the Dems didn’t play that up is beyond me. If I had the money, I’d have made a commercial out of it and played it day and night.
They’re liars. They lie all the time. The public understands that. Inform the public that Bush is blocking investigations into the White House’s attempts to turn the DoJ into an arm of the GOP.
June 13th, 2007 at 6:15 pmSo Sara Taylor is now out of the White House, right? But the White House says that doesn’t matter- she still can’t testify, even if she wanted to.
Huh? How can the White House keep a now-private citizen from testifying about anything? (I mean, short of national security secrets- only the VP can let stuff like that slip). If she really DID want to testify, what could they do to prevent it? Throw her in jail? “Disappear” her?
I suspect she wouldn’t WANT to testify, but if she did, I can’t see how anyone could stop her.
June 13th, 2007 at 6:19 pmLet Georgie take it to court. He will lose. He doesn’t exactly have a good track records in the courts these days. Even his hand-picked judges are turning on him. He can’t use Executive Privilege for conversations that took place between two co-workers not including him. The way he interprets “executive privilege” is anyone who ever worked for me or who worked for anyone who works for me can’t be called to testify. That would pretty much cover the entire government. But, then, he thinks it is “his government” so it’s not unusual that he would think that way.
Hopefully the Democrats will serve the subpoenas ASAP and when they refuse to comply, hold them in contempt of congress and see what Bush does then.
June 13th, 2007 at 6:27 pmThe investigation moves a major step forward now, with the document dump that followed this subpeona. Congress is now tracing this scandal into the WH. Remeber Bush is the one who is sad to see this “druuuuug out.” Be patient – they are losing every single battle in this ongoing war. The issue at the heart of this is voter supression, so for the dems it’s win or die.
June 13th, 2007 at 6:39 pmEP is meant to protect the WH from disclosing information that might possibly threat or jeopardize national security; politicizing the DOJ does not fall under it’s umbrella.
June 13th, 2007 at 6:57 pmi shook a magic 8-ball, and it said this:
“signs point to taylor prepping for several weeks only to say under oath that she can’t recall anything, then blame it all on someone who’s already testified, who in turn will issue a statement saying that taylor’s testimony was not accurate, at which point she will send a letter to congress to ‘clarify’ her testimony.”
June 13th, 2007 at 7:19 pm