AP: Deal Reached on Cunningham Subpeonas

[Eugene]

Deal Reached on Cunningham Subpeonas

The Associated Press
Tuesday, February 27, 2007; 7:29 PM

WASHINGTON -- Three House committees subpoenaed in connection with the
bribery investigation into imprisoned former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham
and his associates reached an agreement with prosecutors Tuesday allowing
the subpoenas to be withdrawn.

Under the agreement, five outstanding subpoenas will be withdrawn and the
committees will voluntarily hand over documents in addition to material already
provided, according to a statement released by Brendan Daly, a spokesman for
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Two committee staffers will appear March 1 before the federal grand jury in San
Diego that has been considering evidence stemming from the Cunningham case,
Daly said.

-snip-

"The agreements permit the committees to cooperate with the investigation in a
manner that respects the constitutional prerogatives of the House and does not
impair the committees' functioning or compromise their legislative and oversight
responsibilities," Daly said.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/27/AR2007022701371.html

[williesgirl]

1. K&R

[Liberty Belle]

2. They're burying links to Hunter and others, it appears.

Republican Duncan Hunter, presidential candidate and former chair of the House Armed Services committee, was hailed by Duke as his "mentor" in Congress - and took money from all the same bad apples as Duke.

First Carol Lam gets the axe, now this. Why did the Dems roll over?


:kick:

[cascadiance]

3. Maybe it isn't as sinister as it sounds...

If all of these committees are under Democratic Party control now, perhaps they are providing far more information to the prosecutors than they would have provided under subpoena (and under Republican control) and perhaps when prosecutors have more time to review the data they'll issue further subpoenas later. Ideally, you'd like to see people testifying under oath now, but perhaps we still need to hear more. Given the Democrats' penchant recently for knuckling under on other things, I'm not holding my breath!

[Supersedeas]

4. having a new attorney on the case means they turn over what they want