Here comes the Congressional oversight
The Bush administration can run, but it can't hide:
As for Gonzales, he's been politely told to refresh his memory by next week by Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter:
In rapid succession, congressional committees today ramped up their investigations of the Bush administration by approving a subpoena for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and granting immunity to a former key aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.Were the previous Republican rubber stamp Congress still in power, we wouldn't be seeing any of this. Now that Democrats have control of both chambers, there can be accountability and a check on executive power.
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The House oversight committee also issued subpoenas for the Republican National Committee for testimony and documents about White House e-mails on RNC accounts that have apparently gone missing, in violation of the law.
As for Gonzales, he's been politely told to refresh his memory by next week by Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter:
We believe the Committee and our investigation would benefit from you searching and refreshing your recollection and your supplementing your testimony by next Friday to provide the answers to the questions you could not recall last Thursday.Read the whole letter here. All we have to add is: it's about time.
