While the Bush administration offered to allow congress to speak to White House officials without transcription and without taking the oath, congress actually wanted to accomplish something.
LA TImes/AP:
A congressional subcommittee Wednesday put itself on a collision course with the White House over the firing of U.S. attorneys, while Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under siege for his handling of the dismissals, took steps to repair his image.
Over Republican objections, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law authorized subpoenas for documents and testimony from top Justice Department and White House aides including political strategist Karl Rove. It seemed likely the next act in the political drama would be a separate vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee to approve a second set of subpoenas for Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and William Kelley, who was Miers' deputy.
The disclosures about the firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year have triggered allegations by Democrats that the White House and Justice Department conspired to replace the prosecutors for political reasons. The Justice Department denies that, saying the dismissals were based on performance issues.
Here's my question; if these subpoenas go forward, can we waterboard Karl Rove? What about Harriet Miers and William Kelly? If the evidence extracted from these aggressive interrogation techniques calls for it, can we waterboard Alberto Gonzales?...
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