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Send Karl Rove To Jail. The law is crystal clear on this issue. The detail of the law broken, below the fold...

Karl Rove flees the U.S. to avoid a subpoena.

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Does he have a new house is Paraguay, like George W. Bush?

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Cheney has a new house in Dubai. The silver lining: Iran invasion unlikely for the sake of Halliburton.

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Nancy Pelosi has told Dennis Kucinich to shut up with articles impeachment. It might be too late after Bush leaves office to hold the administration guilty of high crimes.

Yesterday, Karl Rove was supposed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, and didn't.

In fact, Karl Rove is apparently on "a long scheduled foreign trip."

Short diary here.

MSNBC is reporting that Rove, as predicted, is refusing to testify before congress, and has thus "defied a congressional subpoena to testify Thursday about allegations of political pressure at the Justice Department."

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A transplanted Midwesterner puts down roots in Alabama and helps show how "loyal Bushies" have corrupted our justice system.

Since day one, Pelosi has held that impeachment is off the table, but is that what she REALLY means? I think not! Follow me below the fold to find out more.

Congress has filed a lawsuit against the Bush Administration because of the failure of Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten to appear before Congress in response to a Congressional Subpoena.  Old news.

The NY Times editor today, in an editorial entitled, "Time to Vote Contempt" came out forcefully in favor of charging Miers and Bolton with contempt of Congress. They also mentioned another player in this, US Attorney Christopher Christie, who I hadn't heard of before... more below...

My all time favorite former governor is currently suing the EPA for not allowing California to save the planet a little bit.  Recently, Attorney General Jerry Brown had a meeting with Senator Barbara Boxer on this subject.  As reported in theLA Times, White house interference [!] may have been involved.  Please take note of the AGs comments:

"Subpoena these guys," he urged Boxer. "Send the marshals out. Get them to tell us under oath. They are not going to get away with this. Sooner or later, we are going to uncover real corruption . . . that is dangerous to California and to the whole world."

Brown said that the Bush administration may be able to delay court action a year, until the president's term is over, but that Congress may be able to speed the process. "What you have is a bunch of scofflaws in the White House," he said. "This fellow [EPA administrator Stephen L.] Johnson is becoming a stooge in a really pathetic drama that hopefully will not play out much longer."

So, why didn't we elect this guy president?

According to RollCall, a former staffer for the House Appropriations Committee that worked for then Chairman Jerry Lewis said he intends to defy a federal subpoena he was served today from the US District Court for the Central District in California. You may have read about Lewis' attempts to obstruct investigations into his conduct here, when USA Debra Wong Yang was paid $1.5 million to leave the Justice Dept. and work for the firm defending Lewis.  

UPDATE: The staffer's name is Greg Lankler. He worked as an assistant on the Appropriation Defense Subcommittee. Thanks to wanderindiana for the find.

I have my senator, Dianne Feinstein, on speed dial on my cellphone, both the San Francisco and the DC offices, so I can double up on my calls. (Love me some free long distance package!) I call several times a week, because she pisses me off so much.

Lately I have been pestering her office over the Judicial Committee subpoenas which were ignored by Harriet Miers, Karl Rove and Josh Bolten.  I want to know why they haven't been arrested.

The Feinstein staffers usually refer me to committee chairman Pat Leahy.

More on the other side...

It's coming up on a month now since I told you about the passage of yet another Congressional deadline for information from the White House in one of the many investigations the "administration" is basically ignoring. In this case, it was the September 10th deadline set by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman, for the production of information about those 5 million "missing" White House e-mails.

At the time, the White House claimed that they'd contracted out the archiving they're required to do by law to a private company, but -- get this -- wouldn't tell the committee who that contractor was.

Yeah. Seriously.

Ridiculous, right?

It gets better.

When Congress asked about 5 million executive branch e-mails that went missing, a White House lawyer pointed the finger at an outside IT contractor.

The only problem? No such IT contractor exists, according to sources close to the investigation of a possible violation of the Federal Records and Presidential Records acts.

Uh oh.

Hey, what's the remedy for this sort of thing?

Oh, charges referred to the U.S. Attorney? Right. Forgot about that.

Carry on, everyone!

Just in case you were wondering whether there might actually be something else going on this week besides the Petraeus Show, there is.

Nothing serious, though.

Just the latest in a series of deadlines set by Government Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, demanding the delivery by the "administration" of reports generated by the still-unknown private contractor who claims to have "lost" those 5 million White House e-mails.

Deadline: Today.

In a letter to Fielding, Rep. Henry Waxman set a Sept. 10 deadline for the White House to turn over information about the missing e-mail, a problem that apparently was discovered by administration officials in 2005.

The letter from Waxman, D-Calif., revealed new details about the issue that came from two White House lawyers who briefed Waxman's staff about problems archiving electronic messages. White House e-mail problems first came to light during a special prosecutor's investigation into whether someone on President Bush's staff illegally leaked a CIA agent's identity and again during congressional inquiries into the role of presidential aides in firings of U.S. attorneys.

Yes, we've known about this since 2005. And yes, it was discovered in the investigation of the Plame outing.

And yes, we're still waiting.

P.S. -- Also still pending: Contempt of Congress charges against Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten. Both still at large.

Yep they are all piling on Pat Leahy. Critics are slamming him for his "weak" inability to get any concession or cooperation from the Bush administration. They destroy documents illegally, redact everything else, and then refuse to turn anything over that is left. The administration's excuse? Executive privilidge, national security.

Does anyone want to guess how this will play out?

Today at 2:30 p.m., the clock runs out on the latest deadline for the White House to turn over materials regarding the National Security Agency's eavesdropping program to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The documents were originally subpoened on June 27th and were to be turned over to the committee on July 18th.  After a request from the White House the deadline was extended until today, and now White House Counsel Fred Fielding is saying that the gathering of the documents is, "by no means complete," and wants another extension.  Last week Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said:

...he'd wait no more.

"You have rejected every proposal, produced none of the responsive documents, provided no basis for any claim of privilege and no accompanying log of withheld documents."

And when the White House ignores this latest deadline, what will Leahy do?  Will he issue another sternly worded letter or will he act to find the administration in contempt of Congress?  

Fred Fielding's latest letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee/Chairman Pat Leahy lays out exactly what kind of cooperation Leahy, Democrats, and the American public can expect from the Bush Administration:

Nothing.

But that's not all. They're planning to get us to roll over for them again, and perhaps appropriately, given Dick Cheney's famous outburst, get us to screw ourselves. You'll see how (don't worry, no pictures) -- after the jump.

I've been waiting anxiously for word from the House Judiciary Committee about whether the Republican National Committee has complied, pusuant to subpoena, with supplying e-mails and other documents from key White House officials regarding the firing of the nine U.S. attorneys.

*UPDATE: Conyers Response at end of diary...

In a letter from John Conyers to Robert Kelner[pdf], the RNC was allowed an extension to supply the requested e-mails relating to the attorney firings and a roster of all documents withheld and a reason.  This extension expires at 5pm today, July 31, 2007.

If anyone has any information about RNC compliance of this subpoena, please do share.  So far I only hear crickets....

Update: Grammar Correction
Update: 5pm Deadline