{"id":7322,"date":"2009-07-26T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T17:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7322"},"modified":"2009-07-27T04:26:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T11:26:46","slug":"conyers-you-go-first-holder-no-you-go-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7322","title":{"rendered":"Conyers: You Go First!; Holder: No, You Go First!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Conyers_Holder_pointing.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">In response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5h0cN1F9Fa9GXh2ztnS5iHhPTTp2wD99L0K500\">AP&#8217;s Friday headline<\/a> announcing &#8220;Conyers wants criminal probe of Bush &#8216;abuses,'&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/afterdowningstreet.org\/node\/44759\">David Swanson posts this<\/a> &#8220;important breaking sarcasm&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><b>Holder Joins Conyers in Demanding Action<\/b><\/p>\n<p>House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has called on Attorney General Eric Holder to open a criminal investigation into the misdeeds of former president George W. Bush and former vice president Richard B. Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>Holder, in turn, has now called on Conyers to open impeachment proceedings against former head of the Office of Legal Council Jay Bybee, now a judge in the Ninth Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Conyers, in response, has demanded that Holder open a complete investigation of 14 different areas of criminal enterprise and appoint an independent counsel, offering a list of eight possible candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Holder, in reply, has insisted that Conyers reissue all of the subpoenas his committee has failed to enforce over the past two and a half years and use the Capitol Police to enforce them at once.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Conyers&#8217; office has issued a new report on the need to weed out corruption and undo politically motivated prosecutions by the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, the attorney general remarked at a televised press conference, &#8220;Chairman Conyers proposed five months ago to extend to 10 years the statutes of limitations on crimes allegedly committed under the previous administration. Introducing a bill might be a way to begin making that happen. Just an idea. I&#8217;m no expert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, John Conyers removed a large Easter bonnet that had been disguising him, stood up in the back of the room and shouted&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afterdowningstreet.org\/node\/44759\">See Swanson for the rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to AP&#8217;s Friday headline announcing &#8220;Conyers wants criminal probe of Bush &#8216;abuses,&#8217;&#8221; David Swanson posts this &#8220;important breaking sarcasm&#8221;&#8230; Holder Joins Conyers in Demanding Action House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has called on Attorney General Eric Holder to open a criminal investigation into the misdeeds of former president George W. Bush and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,405,299,223,64,404,211,56,366,127],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-bush-legacy","category-democrats","category-dept-of-justice","category-dick-cheney","category-eric-holder","category-john-conyers","category-karl-rove","category-torture","category-the-constitution"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7322"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}