Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Waxman to Atty Gen: Stop ignoring my requests for Plame info

Waxman to Atty Gen: Stop ignoring my requests for Plame infoNick JulianoPublished: Tuesday December 18, 2007
Recently appointed Attorney General Michael Mukasey seems not to be living up to his pledge to remain independent from White House meddling, and he apparently is ignoring a long-standing request for Justice Department documents regarding former CIA operative Valerie Plame's outing by former Bush administration figures, according to a top congressional Democrat.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman on Tuesday reiterated his previous appeal to Mukasey for documents from Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of the Plame leak. Waxman said that the attorney general has no reason to obstruct his committee's investigation, as Mukasey did last week with a congressional inquiry into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes.
Waxman noted that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby -- the former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney who was convicted after Fitzgerald's investigation -- has dropped his appeal, and the Justice Department is not conducting any further investigations. Therefore, the California Democrat says, Mukasey has no excuse to continue withholding the documents.
"Thus," he wrote in a letter to Mukasey, "I request that you provide the Committee by January 3, 2008, with the documents requested in the Committee’s July 16 letter to Mr. Fitzgerald, including the reports of interviews with President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and other White House officials."
more...
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Waxman_to_Atty_Gen_Stop_ignoring_1218.html
I can just hear Dana Perino saying, "Due to Congressman Waxman's ongoing investigation, we cannot discuss the matter publicly. Really, I've heard them say things more Orwellian than that.


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