Monday, April 28, 2008
Torture Subpoenas? (8:16 pm)
John Yoo, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, and Vice Presidential Chief of Staff David Addington have now all declined to testify before the House Judiciary committee on the White House’s torture policies. Committee Chairman John Conyers first responded to their objections, and now has threatened to issue subpoenas.
“I will have no choice,” Conyers says, “but to consider the use of compulsory process.” Stay tuned.
Every citizen must demand - from every candidate for office, from every Congressional Representative and Senator now in office an answer to the question:
What have you done to fulfill your Oath of Office, to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, in the face of the many credible allegations of impeachable offence leveled against George W. Bush and Richard Cheney?
How can you, standing for office, ask anyone to vote for you in the face of such failure? How can you ask us to believe, that once elected, you will honor the oath you have, so far, failed to honor?
And, from every journalist, newscaster, interviewer and media pundit –
How, as journalists, can you justify your failure to demand an answer to this question?
posted by William H. Bassett on 4-29-08 at 10:18 PM