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Associated Press

04/28/08

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Monday threatened to serve subpoenas on former Attorney General John Ashcroft and two others associated with the Bush administration’s interrogation policies if they don’t agree to testify. If the three — including John C. Yoo, the former assistant deputy attorney general, and David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff — do not reply by Friday, ‘I will have no choice but to consider the use of compulsory process,’ Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., wrote in letters to them...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Conyers Subpoenas Addington in Torture Probe

Reuters reports: "US Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff was subpoenaed on Wednesday to testify in a congressional probe of the administration's treatment and possible torture of enemy combatants."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050908B.shtml



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