{"id":6153,"date":"2008-07-09T05:22:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T12:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2008-07-09T05:25:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T12:25:44","slug":"waxman-schedules-vote-on-contempt-charge-against-attorney-general-michael-mukasey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6153","title":{"rendered":"Waxman Schedules Vote on Contempt Charge against Attorney General Michael Mukasey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensitoreview.com\/\">Pensito Review<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/articles\/alerts\/409\">BuzzFlash.com<\/a>. 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. <\/p>\n<p>Mukasey has refused to comply with the committee&#8217;s subpoena for FBI transcripts of a June 2004 interview with Dick Cheney about the leaking of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame. <\/p>\n<p>The administration has asserted that Cheney&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>The confirmation comes from Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the leak investigation:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">I can advise you that as to any interviews of either the president or vice president not protected by the rules of grand jury secrecy, there were no &#8220;agreements, conditions and understandings between the Office of Special Counselor the Federal Bureau of Investigation&#8221; and either the president or vice president &#8220;regarding the conduct and use of the interview or interviews.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>In early 2007, Cheney&#8217;s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, was found guilty of obstructing the inquiry by lying to investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s subpoena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cia-leak","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}