Conyers: Bush Should Waive Exec. Privilege, ‘Do What Clinton Did’ And Explain Commutation - TP

[Eugene]

Source: Think Progress

Conyers: Bush Should Waive Exec. Privilege,
‘Do What Clinton Did’ And Explain Commutation

This Wednesday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers
will hold a hearing on the use and misuse of presidential clemency
power, looking specifically at whether President Bush’s commutation
of Scooter Libby’s prison sentence was an abuse of power.

Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Conyers said exists a “suspicion that
if Mr. Libby went to prison, he might further implicate other people
in the White House.” Conyers noted “there was some kind of
relationship here that does not exist in any of President Clinton’s
pardons… (and) it’s never existed before.”

Conyers said he is requesting Bush waive executive privilege and
“do what President Clinton did — namely to bring forward any of his
pardon lawyers or anyone that can put a clear light on this and put
this kind of feeling that is fairly general to rest.”

Conyers was also asked about subpoenas that he has issued to the
White House for information relating to the U.S. Attorney’s purge.
The Washington Post reports this morning, “The White House has
decided to defy Congress’s latest demand for information regarding
the dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys, sources familiar with the
decision said yesterday.”

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Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/08/conyers-libby-hearing

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Also: `Suspicion' About Libby's Commutation - AP

[zbdent]

1. Okay, Conyers ... let's put Scooter Libby on the witness stand

and have him explain why Marc Rich needed to be pardoned ...

[emulatorloo]

2. LOL n/t