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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Leahy: "They would have laughed me out of court"

the senate follows the house's lead...
The Senate's Judiciary Committee voted this morning to authorize the issuing of subpoenas for White House officials linked to the firing of United States Attorneys. The authorization came after a lengthy, tense hearing where Republican and Democratic Senators debated whether or not Members of Congress should accept the offer of an unsworn discussion with White House aides in place of a public hearing.

Senator Patrick Leahy, who chairs the Senate committee, said that in spite of the White House's statements, he would go forward with the subpoena process if required.

"They came up and said, 'This is our offer. Take it or leave it. Accept these papers where we've erased 100 pages or more so you don't even know it's on there. Do a closed- door hearing where the public has no idea what was said, and then not under oath,'" Leahy said on NBC's Today this morning.

He added, "Well, nobody's going to take that. I was a prosecutor for eight years. If I had ever done that as a prosecutor with somebody, they would have laughed me out of court."

that light at the end of the tunnel is merely the headlight of the oncoming constitutional crisis...

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