It’s funny, I watched quite a bit of cable news tonight and I saw no mention of the fact that Karl Rove was deposed for eight and a half hours by the House Judiciary Committee today. I guess that is in part because the deposition was done behind closed doors and with a confidentiality agreement of sorts, but it still seems like a major dropping of the reporting ball.
Rove has been bucking a congressional subpoena from John Conyers’ committee for years. He finally complies and I have to look to Politico to even learn about it. Apparently, and I think I missed this too, Harriet Miers was quietly deposed sometime in June.
I have no idea when Conyers will let us know what he learned. I hope that it I learn when Rove and/or Miers go on trial.
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WASHINGTON, June 25 PRNewswire-USNewswire — Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers is scheduled to keynote an unprecedented conference about political prosecutions by the Bush DOJ on June 26 from 8am-11am at the National Press Club.
Experts from Congress and federal courts along with defendants and legal commentators will discuss evidence before the Judiciary Committee that the Bush administration targeted defendants on the basis of political party. Elected Democrats were seven times more likely to be investigated than GOP officials, according to a leading study.
“The biggest scandal in American politics is prosecution misconduct against Democrats, which is just as indefensible as racial bias.”
Patriot Act Prohibits Conspiracy To Torture
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I missed that. Thanks for reporting.
Now what’s all this about Michael Jackson?