Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review.
Via BuzzFlash.com. On Tuesday, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced that he has scheduled a vote for July 16 on whether to charge Attorney General Michael Mukasey with contempt of Congress.
Mukasey has refused to comply with the committee’s subpoena for FBI transcripts of a June 2004 interview with Dick Cheney about the leaking of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
The administration has asserted that Cheney’s interview cannot be shared with Congress. However, Waxman has confirmed that the interview was not covered by a secrecy agreement, primarily because it was part of grand jury inquiry into the leak.
The confirmation comes from Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the leak investigation:
The committee is looking into allegations that Cheney directed the unmasking of Plame, a specialist in the black market for terror weapons, because her husband, Joe Wilson, had criticized him in a newspaper.
In early 2007, Cheney’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, was found guilty of obstructing the inquiry by lying to investigators.
We can only hope that history is repeating itself and that Cheney will be found guilty of crimes like Nixon’s vice president, Spiro Agnew, was.
Wonder how things are going for Jeffery Skilling.
Of course comparing Spiro Agnew with Dick Cheney is like comparing George Bush with Charles Manson. Manson is much less dangerous.
Yo Larry, is that cheney or is that his ghost of a demented mind your seeing?
Waxman deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor. He is calling out Mukasey, a man who dirties the Office of Attorney General of the US. Go Waxman, and get the scumbags. Cheney et al MUST be held accountable, and we are starting with Mukasey, who should be removed for Contempt of congress!
Um duh….;-)
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