White House in Contempt
Dear Pete,
I wanted to take the opportunity to update you on the status of the contempt of Congress resolution in the House of Representatives.
As you may know, the Judiciary Committee passed a resolution before the August recess holding the White House and Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress for their failure to provide documents and appear before the committee as legally required by subpoena.
The information we have received to date from the Justice Department from our U.S. Attorneys investigation indicates the White House played a central role in the firing of the nine federal prosecutors. Yet, the White House has stonewalled and consistently refused to cooperate with inquiries into this matter.
At the heart of our investigation is the evidence uncovered suggesting that the nine U.S. Attorneys were fired for politically-motivated reasons, while others may have been retained because they were pursuing partisan investigations.
We have also discovered that job candidates' political contributions and affiliations were considered in hiring decisions for nonpartisan positions in the Department of Justice. Our job has been made more difficult by apparent misleading testimony from the Attorney General and other Department of Justice officials.
This politicization of our judicial system cannot be tolerated. Our citizens have a right to expect that federal prosecutions will be conducted in a fair and nonpartisan manner.
There are many steps we can take in this confrontation with the White House. Some are more extreme than others. What we must first do is get the facts that show who made these decisions in the White House. Only once we have this evidence can we adequately pursue justice.
What is now required is for the House to pass these contempt of Congress citations and pursue legal action against the White House and Harriet Miers for their failure to meet the requirements of the subpoenas. Hopefully this contempt of Congress resolution will soon have a vote on the floor of the House. I am not prepared to allow this administration to operate above the law.
Thank you for your continued support for a better democracy.
Your Friend,
John Conyers, Jr.
Hm, interesting. That's funny since that's not true. Of course, I had to call him on it. So, I clicked "reply" and typed up this:
Thanks for this email. The thing is, sir, you've been letting the White House operate above the law for years. Three years ago the GAO found the White House's production of Video News Releases that didn't credit the United States government as their source to be a violation of federal law, specifically, the federal law banning covert propaganda. If memory serves, the GAO also found that, since the White House used taxpayer money for this covert propaganda, they violated another federal law that prohibits the use of said taxpayer dollars on the production of propaganda. So, you and the rest of Congress have been allowing the Bush Administration to operate entirely above the law for some time now.
All it took for Bill Clinton to be impeached was lying under oath.
The really frightening thing is that this covert propaganda stuff is just the tip of the iceberg. There are stacks of other laws they've definitely broken and stacks more of laws they are likely to have broken.
Please do something about this. Save the reputation of Congress. Uphold the law. DO something. Do ANYthing to prove to me and millions of other Americans following your activities that the government can still function the way it is supposed to.
Thank you!
The stuff I mention is all stuff I've covered on ThePete.Com before, but then, I suspect Representative Conyers doesn't read my site. :( Of course, I had to shrug when the above email got bounced. I decided to try to submit my reply through JohnConyers.com, but their contact form threw me an error message: "You cannot send more than 3 messages per hour. Please try again later."
Whaaaa? That was just from clicking "Contact" in the menu bar underneath the header at the top of the page (where else would a header be? Duh). Ironically, at the bottom of the page, they have another email address seemingly aimed at campaign issues--which is odd, but I figure it's a valid email since it's there. So, I sent my reply there. Of course, it's just typed their in text, so it won't be long before spambots find it and start sending all sorts of penis-extension emails to it. Stupid spammers, Conyers is blaaaack! Penis-extension pills would be something he probably wouldn't need--IF you know what I mean...
Speaking of which, I used to think Conyers had balls, but it seems that his job is more important to him than America and the American system of government. To me it seems like he'd have even more public influence if he were to somehow lose his job for talking tough once again.
There was, after all, a long time where all I got, on his mailing list, were emails about impeaching Bush.
Maybe he needs those penis-extension pills after all.
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