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White House Orders Miers to Clam Up

M. Morris — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:12:57 CDT

On President Bush's orders, Harriet Miers will ignore a subpoena and will not appear tomorrow before a House committee investigating the US attorney firings. The ex-White house counsel "has absolute immunity from compelled congressional testimony," current counsel Fred Fielding wrote to her lawyer in a letter made public this afternoon,...

Bush Directs Aides to Defy Subpoenas

Dustin Lushing — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:12:00 CDT

In an aggressive use of executive privilege, President Bush instructed two of his former aides yesterday to disregard congressional subpoenas demanding they testify about the attorney firings scandal. In a letter to Congress, Bush's counsel rebuffed Democratic senators for encroaching on internal White House affairs, bringing the two branches closer...

White House Stonewalls on Subpoenas

Dustin Lushing — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:35:56 CDT

The White House shot down attempts to subpoena internal documents concerning the US attorney firings today by invoking executive privilege. Though not a surprise, the refusal moved the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee to accuse the administration of "Nixonian stonewalling." If the committee doesn't back down, the Times reports,...