YOU CAN'T SUBPOENA ME I'M THE PRESIDENT

Was this at all unexpected? I just hope they find their balls and impeach his ass for contempt of Congress.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Night Phoenix

Which will do nothing at all, because a conviction is virtually impossible.

Other than restore faith that the American Political system isn't entirely broken to the billions of disillusioned people across the world watching the disaster that is this administration?

Impeachment is quite simple since it just requires a majority vote. Conviction, while difficult, is not impossible to believe since (A) the proof that he's guilty is quite evident and (B) even his own party doesn't like him.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Night Phoenix

Guilty of WHAT?!

Be fucking serious.

Not answering a subpoena is Contempt of Congress, a criminal offense. Did you not read my post?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Night Phoenix

The President and the executive branch have a thing called Executive privilege . That privilege exempts the particular information Congress wants from subpoena.

At least that is the argument of the Bush Administration. Whether or not it is a crime is to be decided by the federal courts. Until such time a federal court says that the Administration has to surrender the requested information to Congress and the Administration refuses, they have committed no crime.

So I'm going to have to ask you to try again, fuck boy.

Contempt of Congress has a long history of being upheld by the courts. Bush's definition of 'Executive Priveledge' has none. So until Bush's views are upheld, a crime has been committed. Try again.

How ya doing, buddy?

Night Phoenix: Contempt of Congress is a crime of omission. You don't need to prove he DID anything - his inaction is in and of itself criminal. The court proceeding is largely a formality - "We subpoenaed him to do this. He didn't."

I was speaking idiomatically.