Scream louder. Maybe another strongly worded letter is appropriate.
Two weeks ago, when Rove failed to appear for his congressional subpeona, he was out making bling that most wage earners get in a year.
I'm referring to the new Newsweek article that details what Raw Story told us the day after his failure to appear. The same day (I think) Conyers issued his July 15th deadline.
All I really have is a few choice quotes below the fold. The rest is up to the readers, which I guess means scream louder.
An Empty Seat and An Exotic Getaway
Isikoff, Newsweek
What they didn't know is where Rove was that day: on a jet flying to a speaking engagement at Yalta, the historic Black Sea resort in Ukraine. Rove, who generally charges a reported $40,000 per talk, appeared on a premier panel (along with Democratic strategist Bob Shrum) on the upcoming U.S. election at the fifth annual conference of the YES Foundation, a confab of world luminaries bankrolled by billionaire Victor Pinchuk, the Ukrainian steel magnate and son-in-law of the country's former autocratic president, Leonid Kuchma.
Karl Rove and Bob Shrum? As guests to the corporate heirs of an autocratic government? Anyone care to comment? World luminaries? 40k bucks?
Democrats on the judiciary panel were outraged when they heard about Rove's overseas jaunt on the day he'd been ordered to testify. "That's just extremely contemptuous—it shows the disdain that he has for Congress and which he has encouraged in the Bush White House," said Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee. But Robert Luskin, Rove's lawyer, said the criticism was "fatuous" because, before he took off, Rove had been directed by White House counsel Fred Fielding not to show up. The reason: as a former presidential adviser, the White House views anything he might say to the panel as covered by executive privilege. "What was he supposed to do, sit at home with his lights off?" said Luskin. "I understand that people are unhappy that he didn't show up." But the no-show "was not something we concocted so he could make money in Yalta." Rove himself did not respond to a request for comment. But last week in an appearance on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News show, Rove dismissed the Democrats' demand for his testimony: "They want a circus," he said.
So, apparently Bush administration lawyers get to decide who is above the law. We don't want a circus, we want your ass frog marched to the Hague.
For the love of all that it true and just, can we not impeach, and then have a war crimes tribunal for these bastards?