Rove ignores House Judiciary Committee subpoena.
By on Feb 23rd, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Rove ignores House Judiciary Committee subpoena.
Pursuant to a subpoena issued earlier this month, Karl Rove was due to appear for a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee today. But as CongressMatters reports, despite being “expected” to appear this time, Rove was a no show. Contacted by ThinkProgress, the House Judiciary Committee confirmed the report of Rove’s absence. Days before leaving office, “Bush’s White House counsel, Fred Fielding, sent letters to Rove, Miers, and Bolten, instructing them to continue to ignore congressional demands for information about anything they did while at the While House.”
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I hope he keeps digging that hole -
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:08 pmSend out the U.S. Marshals and bring the whole bunch in wearing shackles. Let ‘em do a perp walk in front of the media, just to remind them that they are no longer in power. These arrogant bastards must be taught the meaning of “obeying the law”.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:08 pmHas Miers been disbarred yet? What about Fred Fielding?
Do you think they’ll televise the arrests live?
Sorry, but all I have today is questions.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:09 pmI think that they should subpoena this Fred Fielding and ask him by what legal justification he thinks that anyone can ignore a Congressional Subpoena.
In the meantime, tho… Contempt of Congress anyone?
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:09 pmMeh. He’ll continue to go untouched. Obama will probably pardon him anyway, bipartisanship and all. God what a con.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:10 pmHow bout they throw his fat ass in prison where he belongs?
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:10 pmWhat’s it going to be Conyers?
Did you grow a pair since the last election, or are you and your colleagues still a bunch of gutless weenies when it comes to practicing what you preach?
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:10 pmWhy not, Raynman? They have had nothing but contempt for the American people for the last 8 years. A change of administration doesn’t mean a change of attitude.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:11 pmZOMFG, Rove is actually risking the dreaded sternly-worded-letter!
Reid is probably composing Rove’s ‘howler’ even now…. *shudder*
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:11 pmENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
ARREST THE BUSTARD!
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:11 pmCuff him now !!!
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:13 pmWe have a congress that is so spineless that even with a two house majority and a democratic White House, they still can’t enforce a simple Subpoena.
I guess the Sergeant at Arms is sort of like the Maytag Repairman these days.
Nothing to do.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:14 pmRove ignores House Judiciary Committee subpoena.
Along with diet plans ………….And heterosexuality
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:14 pmkick him too
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:15 pmWhat I don’t get is the authoritarian punks in congress will happily go after any of us serfs that dare to defy their authority but this pig f$%ker Rove is allowed to operate with impunity. WTF
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:16 pmIt would do this country good to see this fat criminal pig hog tied and dragged through the streets of Washington DC and delivered to the committee for questioning. He should be locked up and televised. It might turn the economy around.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:16 pmObama/Holder said, “No one is above the lawhawhawhawhaw…
Sorry, couldn’t get through that with a straight face.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:16 pmI’m so sick of this. Throw this fat, un-American, fascist, treasonous POS in prison and leave his cowardly Reich-wing ass there!!!
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:18 pmthe brown acid Says:
but this pig f$%ker Rove is allowed to operate with impunity…
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Jesus, brown acid… you can’t call Rove a pig f$%ker…
I know, but we can make him deny it…
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:18 pmI guess Greenwald is right: We do have two levels of justice in this country. One level for you and I, another for those who are approved by the ‘village’. I guess that settles that.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:20 pmRove a pig f$%^ker? Wouldn’t that be a form of self-abuse?
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:20 pm19.The Republic of Stupidity Says: Jesus, brown acid… you can’t call Rove a pig f$%ker…
I know, but we can make him deny it…
He’ll go on Fox News Sunday and claim Clinton denied it first…
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:21 pmHis a$$ had better be toast this time..
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:22 pmWell by God, send another letter!
Pussy oversight.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:22 pmpig f$%ker Rove is allowed to operate with impunity. WTF
Lot’s of pics of Congressmen with Rove’s dick in their mouths?
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:24 pm24. nwmuse Says: His a$$ had better be toast this time..
It won’t be. He apparently knows where all the bodies are buried, and heaven forbid the leadershi(t) act on Constitutional grounds rather than CYA grounds.
Reducing our laws and rights to the worth of coffee grounds…
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:24 pmThey will send him a stern letter of disappointment…
…new guys same as the old guys…
…how sad.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:25 pmI look forward to Rove and his cronies being put into prison – not the country club kind, either. A nice touch would be to put them into the general population, and put a 24/7 webcam in their cells.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:26 pmHis arrogance continues to be in place.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:26 pmand put a 24/7 webcam in their cells.
He should work with Dumbya and charge an hourly fee to help fund the Shrub “legacy” institute.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:26 pmI am so GOD DAMNED sick of this shit.
Conyers-GROW A PAIR!
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:27 pmIf you can’t lead, then follow or get the HELL out of the way.
Judith Miller spent months in jail for refusing to testify to Fitzgerald. How are Rove/Miers/Bolton any different?
Not that I’m defending Miller by any means, but at least publish the new laws that apply to the few so that we the many will know when to just keep our mouths shut and look the other way when “our” laws are broken.
PEACE
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:28 pmAnyway, why should Rove comply with Obama working to protect bush’s emails? Seems there’d be plenty of information amongst those messages…..but Obama is subverting his own ‘transparency’ shtick by pulling the rug out from under accountability:
This stinks to high heaven. ‘Change’ my @ss…
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:31 pm.
S T E R N L Y
W O R D E D
L E T T E R S
.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:33 pmGod, what a difference Kucinich woulda made by now…
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:33 pmThink he might ignore that subpoena?
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:35 pmwhy shouldn’t rove continue to display his utter contempt for those gutless cowards in congress. perhaps if the house had done something a couple of years ago when miers/bolten/rove et al all spit in their faces, they wouldn’t be once again revealed as the toothless pussies they are.
yeah, i’m talking to you john conyers. maybe it’s time for another sternly worded letter….
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:36 pmRove’s contempt for Congress is a clear attack on the U.S. government and Constitution. Hence, Rove is now an enemy combatant.
What’s that thing we do with enemy combatants again? Lemme think…something about Gitmo and swimming???
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:37 pmKarl Rove, UBS, Bush White House e-mails, torture, domestic spying.
America is gone, replaced by some bizarre corporate state.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:39 pmOK – it’s time for the US Marshalls to visit him, cuff him and bring him in.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:42 pmNo more waiting, no more postponing — he is in contempt.
Damn, Big surprise. Not. I’ll just bet that Rove ignores his photo-radar tickets when he is is Arizona, too.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:43 pmAll Rove has to do is invoke the state’s secret privilege and Obama will comply.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/17/the-more-things-change/
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18063.html
You remember John Yoo. The guy that said it’s ok for the president to order the crushing of children’s testicles in order to get their parents to talk.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:43 pmIf only we could get a former Bush administration official to write a letter telling Rove to honor a subpoena. Their letters always work! Just look at the letter Gonzo had John Yoo write to him saying it was OK for Fredo to break U.S. and international law! It worked like a charm!
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:43 pmAt what point are they going to continue this charade? It’s ime to arrest the bastard and throw his white ass in jail for contempt.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:44 pmUp against the wall lard ass.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:44 pmIt’s ironic to note that amongst all the “give him time” Obamaphiles, there isn’t one who is crowing about how bloody fast Obama moved to cover up bush’s crimes; first with telecom immunity, then first day move to suppress the email lawsuit, then the state secrets madness.
Yeah, we need to give him more time to give bush’s crimes a proper burial…in an unmarked grave…
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:44 pmJudith Miller was a journalist. Rove is a political operative. Justice isn’t near the same for the two groups.
“Just Us” department is for politicians. A pox on both red and blue houses.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:46 pmThe judiciary needs to do it’s job. Legally in the Constitution it is required that they be arrested. They have thumbed their nose at the subpoena’s every time. And each time congress has rolled over. Enough is enough.
Send the sergeant at arms and the nearest sheriff and arrest the lot of them. My God Bush’s former Whitehouse lawyer is still calling the shots. What a bunch of Wus’s this congress is filled with.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:47 pm49. curious Says: The judiciary needs to do it’s job. Legally in the Constitution it is required that they be arrested.
Thanks for the laugh, curious…
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:49 pmWhat a bunch of Wus’s this congress is filled with.
Yup.
A bunch of lawyers who actually occupy a LOWER rung on the moral ladder than ambulance chasers.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:53 pmWHY is Congress behaving like a deer caught in the headlights — paralyzed and unable to do anything?
Cheney and his man-sized safe are gone. The parade of puppet AGs is gone. Rove no longer has a friend in the White House. And yet the Dems are still behaving as if they are being blackmailed.
WTF?????
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:55 pmSomeone had a good idea last night, action is required
I’m sending a link to these comments to
john.conyers@mail.house.gov
I’ll help flood his fax with copies of this page, you all need to help
202-225-0072 (Fax)
I’ll post to his blog also, you can’t just post your stuff here, get involved.
http://conyers.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=About.Blog&Blog_id=5e2d1f6c-57b2-43d4-b7fb-bf73c0665d32
Come on get on board, let him know how you really feel!!
DUac! DUac! To the barricades!!!
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:55 pmhanshiro Says:
It’s ironic to note that amongst all the “give him time” Obamaphiles, there isn’t one who is crowing about how bloody fast Obama moved to cover up bush’s crimes; first with telecom immunity, then first day move to suppress the email lawsuit, then the state secrets madness.
Yeah, we need to give him more time to give bush’s crimes a proper burial…in an unmarked grave…
___________
Know what’s really painful here? Even as Obama appears to be giving the GOOP all they cover they could ever wish for, they’ll STILL trying to stab him in the back every chance they get.
Painful… and sad… and more than a little infuriating.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:58 pmjacambece Says:
DUac! DUac! To the barricades!!!
_________
It would be easier to understand your incoherent mutterings if you’d pull your head out of your Cheney before talking.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:59 pmSo, where’s his next speech or golf outing or fund raiser?
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:03 pmPut a bounty on him and guess what will happen?
Outraged citizens might do the job that our gummint boys won’t.
It could happen.
Let’s have some change, for a change.
What are you smoking? With Kucinich as the nominee McCain would be President.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:03 pmIt’s time to frog march this slime ball right into jail. In chains.
Makes me sick to my stomach how much tolerance this law breaker is given by our law makers.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:05 pmhanshiro Says:
God, what a difference Kucinich woulda made by now…
No Crap! We would have those secret UFO records released by now for one thing.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:07 pmThese nasty aholes are gonna make President Obama’s DOJ handle turd, eyeliner, yosemite sam and gonzo. Good. Because I’m not gonna look ahead until they pay for their crimes.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:11 pmjacambece Says:
I’ll help flood his fax with copies of this page, you all need to help
202-225-0072 (Fax)
Make sure to set your fax to keep redialing, it took 13 trys for mine to get through the 1st time.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:11 pmjacambece Says:
Make sure to set your fax to keep redialing, it took 13 trys for mine to get through the 1st time.
__________
(Heh… whattafool… we got him doing our work for us… whattaputz… tee hee..)
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:15 pmShayne Says:
God, what a difference Kucinich woulda made by now…
What are you smoking? With Kucinich as the nominee McCain would be President.
_________
Perhaps hanshiro is simply making the point that what a difference a person w/ a actual conscience some moral bearings would make…
Sadly, Kucinich stood no chance what so ever in the election.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:17 pmIf I weren’t so heavily inclined to give Rove the benefit of the doubt (HA HA HA HA HA HA NOT NOT NOT) I would wonder if this wasn’t the stall tactic of feigning compliance to the last minute.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:18 pmRove needs his fat ass in jail, along with the rest of them. Some need to pay the ultimate price for their betrayal of our country.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:19 pmI’ve often thought about what would happen if I ever got arrested for anything. How can I claim the same privileges as those in Washington? And why can’t I?
Also, as long as we are eventually going to get Rove before congress (some day far far away), will it be alright to waterboard him because it’s not a form of torture, it’s just a means of getting information.
I can’t wait for the show – at least the one I’d produce.
…Rove didn’t show?
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:20 pmGet’a rope!
Let’s track him down, arrest him and lock him up until he talks. Let Segalman interrogate him. I don’t know about you but as for myself, I’m fed up with this cr*p. You or I try to ignore a congressional subpoena and see what happens; I don’t see why Rove, Miers, or Bolton is any different.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:22 pm57.Shayne Says: What are you smoking? With Kucinich as the nominee McCain would be President.
59. jacambece Says: No Crap! We would have those secret UFO records released by now for one thing.
It’s always funnier the 700th time around!
Lessee, the tax cuts Obama promised to revoke, aren’t.
Obama is perpetuating bush state secrets ‘laws,’ excusing bush’s illegal spying with telecom immunity, and seeking to stonewall access to the WH emails that would shed a glaring light on bush’s activities regarding the war, Plame, etc. All after ‘promising’ the opposite.
I’m not so sure ‘we’ won, frankly. And as far as the tired UFO and/or leprechaun jokes, I hope they’re as funny while Rove continues to walk scot-free while Obama has a few more mind ‘changes.’
That isn’t ‘change’ I can believe in…where I come from they’re called scumbag lies.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:29 pmWhat do you get a turdblossum who has everything? An orange jumpsuit, a case of grape jelly, a subscription to the soap on a rope of the month club, and several years to enjoy them.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:30 pm63. The Republic of Stupidity Says: Perhaps hanshiro is simply making the point that what a difference a person w/ a actual conscience some moral bearings would make…
Thank you TRoS, that is my point exactly!
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:32 pm“Cuff’em, Dano”
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:37 pmhanshiro Says:
Thank you TRoS, that is my point exactly!
____________
Yer welcome. That’s how I took yer comment. I’m sorry to see Kucinich so sidelined by his own party these days. I had hoped he would be tapped for a Cabinet position, perhaps has health care czar…
It’s sad when someone w/ real ethics is seen as a trouble maker.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:55 pmThis abject disregard for America’s system of government has demoralized me. What is our country all about if we can blow up citizens of another country’s on a mistake but we can’t make our own system of laws and rules apply? I am mind-boggled.
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:02 pmHow is this possible? Doesn’t everyone else get taken to jail for contempt?
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:12 pmHow is this possible?
fergus Says:
Rove a pig f$%^ker? Wouldn’t that be a form of self-abuse?
Besides, it gives animal husbandry a bad name.
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:15 pmARREST THE F#**CKING BASTARD NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:21 pmIt has been 2 hours and we are not hearing breaking news… arrest warrant for Karl Rove?
What the hell is going on?
callcongress.org
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Good thing I wasn’t holding my breath.
Yo Ryan, I don’t think they do anything at the “While House”
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:27 pmINHERENT CONTEMPT!! NOW!!! GODDAMMIT!!!
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:29 pmBuckie Boy Says:
They will send him a stern letter of disappointment…
…new guys same as the old guys…
…how sad.
There are very new new guys in congress. Change in President + no change in Congressmen = no change.
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:33 pmCongress is a laugh ……GOP is corrupt……Dems are weak and unable to do anything meaningful…..they are ALL f’d up.
If they can’t arrest Rove for contempt…..I don’t blame him for ignoring their feckless threats.
Dave
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:02 pmIf Holder doesn’t issue a warrant for his arrest, he’s not doing his job.
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:03 pmOOOOOh! I bet they subpoena him again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again…
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:25 pmMugsy. It’s not the Attorney General’s job to enforce Congressional subpoena’s.
It’s the job of the congress to enforce their own Subpoena’s. That’s why they have a police force, and a Jail in the capital.
The Sergeant at Arms would arrest Rove, and they’d toss him in the jail in the basement of the Capital.
That is of course assuming we actually had a Congress, and not a quorum of spineless jellyfish.
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:27 pmYay, Congress has no power whatsoever! Whee! Somebody build a time machine and let’s see what the Army-McCarthy hearings would have looked like if nobody had showed up.
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:30 pmjudith miller was a “journalist” only by title. By profession she’s a CIA misinformation specialist.
Her silence and so-called “imprisonment” was probably well compensated for by the agency after she got out. But in the end it was a media show to distract attention and an attempt to restore some measure of credability to her worthless carcass.
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:34 pmDidn’t you realize that these are important people who are above the law? The law is for the weak and poor to keep them in their place. Certainly not for Republicans. Checks and balances? Why, even the Democrats don’t really believe in that.
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:36 pmWAYNEBRO Says:
Mugsy. It’s not the Attorney General’s job to enforce Congressional subpoena’s.
Oh cut the guy a break, can’t all be geniuses like you.
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pmjacambece Says:
Unfortunaly too many people are MORONS like YOU
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:47 pmI’m sorry. In the circles I run in correcting inaccurate information with accurate information is considered a positive thing, not a negative one.
I guess it’s not the same in the circles you run in?
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:47 pmRendition Rove to Morocco. They know what to do with fat treasonous pigs.
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:47 pmCall out Palidin!
a nice wanted poster with some real money and per dium to get the man away from the dancing girls and fandango tables in San Francisco. he will bring him back tied to a horse.
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:17 pmWanted Dead or Alive!
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:26 pmWang111 Says:
Go away blogwhore
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:10 pm.
http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/oathoffice.html
Key phrases to watch for:
“against all enemies, foreign and domestic…”
“I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same…”
“I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion…”
“I will well faithfully discharge the duties of the office…”
But really, what’s an Oath of Office good for if those who take it do so with an intent to subvert the Constitution, ignore clear violations, and openly refuse to enforce it’s Laws?
Congressman John Conyers is a coward who has failed to “support and defend” the Constitution. He has done so with much heavy mental reservations, and in fact has gone to great lengths to construct reasons and attempt to give purposes of evasion as to why he should not be obligated to faithfully support and defend the entire Constitution of the USA.
VOTE
OUT
THE
OLD
ROT
John Conyers once was a good man…
… WAS!
Dear John CONyers,
George W. Bush once famously said, “You can fool me once…”
How did he end that, FOOL?
.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:33 am.
Q U E S T I O N:
If the first no-show was a simple case of contempt…
… Fought out in court, Rove, Miers, and Bolton lost that round…
And the second was a clear statement of contempt not only of the Committee but also of the prior ruling concerning Roves prior contempt/no-show…
… Where vacation plans trump a subpoena and the Committee is told to fukoff…
The third time around is just what then…
… Confirmation that anyone can ignore a subpoena, NO?
… Or just when it’s issued by one John CONyers?
.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:43 amI didn’t see this posted, so I’m weighing in with something that I believe is the meat behind chubbo’s potatoes. The thing about Karl Rove that boilerplates his ass from the pursuit of justice is his trademark “gotcha” m.o. Rove probably has a file–maybe as much as 15 million emails worth ;)–that would make J. Edgar Hoover green and erect with envy. They don’t want to prosecute him because he will pull out the Rove-Nukes and blow the lid on the entire corrupt, hypocritical arrangement in Congress.
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