The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Henry Waxmax, has subpoenaed Secretary of State Rice in order to ask her questions about the long-dispelled claim that Saddam Hussein attempted to buy enriched uranium from Niger.
Rice didn't take too kindly to the subpoena, indicating that she may not comply with it since "I addressed these questions, almost the same questions, during my confirmation hearing. This is an issue that has been answered and answered and answered."
She says she will answer the questions in a letter but not in person. There must be a reason. If she really thought that the questions had been answered. Furthermore, she's hiding behind executive privilege, the concept that presidential advisers cannot be forced to testify before Congress.
If all this is true, then why is she bothering to answer the questions in a letter? Why not just say "No."
I think it's just one more pissing match that Congress and the Bush administration are so apt to engage in. It's sad that our government is so broken that it has come to this.
Congress should have asserted its power while these things were going on, not 4 years later. Too bad nobody in Congress had the fortitude to do the right thing at the right time.
Rice signals rejection of House subpoena - Yahoo! News
Rice didn't take too kindly to the subpoena, indicating that she may not comply with it since "I addressed these questions, almost the same questions, during my confirmation hearing. This is an issue that has been answered and answered and answered."
She says she will answer the questions in a letter but not in person. There must be a reason. If she really thought that the questions had been answered. Furthermore, she's hiding behind executive privilege, the concept that presidential advisers cannot be forced to testify before Congress.
If all this is true, then why is she bothering to answer the questions in a letter? Why not just say "No."
I think it's just one more pissing match that Congress and the Bush administration are so apt to engage in. It's sad that our government is so broken that it has come to this.
Congress should have asserted its power while these things were going on, not 4 years later. Too bad nobody in Congress had the fortitude to do the right thing at the right time.
Rice signals rejection of House subpoena - Yahoo! News
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