- From: Congressman Robert Wexler
- Date: June 9, 2008
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- Breaking Impeachment News: McClellan To Testify
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- Our campaign for accountability for the Bush administration
is making legitimate progress.
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- I am pleased to announce to you that the House Judiciary
Committee has met my public call for Scott McClellan's immediate testimony
with action:
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- Today, Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers officially
invited Mr. McClellan to testify under oath on Friday, June 20th at 10AM.
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- After all of our hard work pushing for impeachment hearings
for Vice President Cheney the McClellan hearing provides our cause
with a legitimate opportunity to showcase the crimes and violations of
this Administration for the American people, the mainstream media, reluctant
members of the Democratic party, and sensible Republicans. This hearing
provides us our first genuine opportunity to enter the public consciousness
and change the dynamics that have prevented true accountability for Bush
and Cheney.
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- Mr. McClellan was a major figure in the Valerie Plame/CIA
scandal, as well as a leading propagandist for the Bush White House's deliberate
attempts to hide the true costs of this war from the American public.
As such, Mr. McClellan will testify under oath (and be subject to perjury
charges should he lie) and be asked about the following matters:
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- 1. What role did President Bush, Vice President Cheney
, and key administration officials take in the effort to reveal the identity
of covert CIA agent Valeria Plame Wilson thus destroying her network
and putting lives in jeopardy?
- 2. What role did President Bush, Vice President Cheney,
and key administration officials take regarding the firing of U.S. Attorneys
or political reasons?
- 3. What role did President Bush, Vice President Cheney,
key administration officials take in conspiring to blatantly break U.S.
and International laws prohibiting the use of torture?
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- I call on Mr. McClellen to immediately accept this invitation
and testify under oath as he previously agreed to while being interviewed
on national television.
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- During the hearing I will have roughly five short minutes
to question Mr. McClellan and undercover the illegalities committed by
this Administration which is why it is critically important that
every representative on the Judiciary Committee hears your voice. Please
let them know that you demand answers to these questions.
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- Nor should it stop there: Karl Rove has thumbed
his nose to the Judiciary Committee's subpoena joining Harriet Miers,
Joshua Bolten and Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff David Addington
as the only Administration officials in history to claim Congress has no
power to even bring them before a committee to be questioned.
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- I have called for Karl Rove to be held in inherent contempt
and for the other renegade officials to appear as required by their subpoenas,
or be forced to do so by the House Sergeant of Arms.
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- What the Judiciary's request of McClellan proves is that
if we stay vigilant if we call loudly and repeatedly for accountability
- that we become very difficult to ignore.
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- Please stay tuned. I hope for more developments soon.
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- With great respect,
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- Congressman Robert Wexler
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