Pelosi wants Bush aides investigated
San Francisco Chronicle
02/28/08
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked the Justice Department on Thursday to open a grand jury investigation into whether President Bush’s chief of staff and former counsel should be prosecuted for contempt of Congress. Pelosi, D-Calif., demanded that the department pursue misdemeanor charges against former White House counsel Harriet Miers for refusing to testify to Congress about the firings of federal prosecutors in 2006 and against chief of staff Josh Bolten for failing to turn over White House documents related to the dismissals. She gave Attorney General Michael Mukasey one week to respond and said refusal to take the matter to a grand jury will result in the House’s filing a civil lawsuit against the Bush administration...
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02/28/08
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked the Justice Department on Thursday to open a grand jury investigation into whether President Bush’s chief of staff and former counsel should be prosecuted for contempt of Congress. Pelosi, D-Calif., demanded that the department pursue misdemeanor charges against former White House counsel Harriet Miers for refusing to testify to Congress about the firings of federal prosecutors in 2006 and against chief of staff Josh Bolten for failing to turn over White House documents related to the dismissals. She gave Attorney General Michael Mukasey one week to respond and said refusal to take the matter to a grand jury will result in the House’s filing a civil lawsuit against the Bush administration...
http://tinyurl.com/23guyj
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Miers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Josh+Bolten
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mukasey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contempt
rudkla - 29. Feb, 13:48
