Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Oversight Committee to address four subpoenas.





<--Click on document. Waxman's letter to the RNC.
The Oversight Committee will hold a business meeting on Wednesday, April 25, at which four subpoenas for testimony and documents will be considered. The subpoenas under consideration are for:
· The testimony of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice regarding the fabricated claim that Iraq sought uranium from Niger and other issues;
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The testimony of former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card regarding the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert identity and White House security procedures;
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RNC documents related to possible violations of the Presidential Records Act and the Hatch Act by White House officials;
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Contacts between the White House and MZM, a federal contractor implicated in bribery charges.

Documents and Links
Update: The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has just voted 20-8 to authorize subpoenas for both RNC Chairman Mike Duncan and emails held by the RNC. They are set to vote on three more subpoenas this afternoon.
Update 2: By 21-10, the House oversight committee voted to issue a subpoena to Condoleezza Rice to compel her story on the Bush administration's claim, now discredited, that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa.

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