A blog devoted to stopping the terror and destruction wrought on the lives, human rights, and environment of all people. This blog will highlight the credibility gap between what the rich and powerful and their enablers in the mainstream media and elsewhere tell us and what the truth really is.
We have this thing called impeachment and it's bleeping golden and we've used it the right way."
-- Illinois state Sen. James Meeks (D), quoted by the AP, mocking former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's expletive-laden words as captured by the FBI on a wiretap.
Just four days before leaving office, Newsweek reports that President Bush "instructed former White House aide Karl Rove to refuse to cooperate with future congressional inquiries into alleged misconduct during his administration."
A letter to Rove's lawyer said that Rove "should not appear before Congress" or turn over any documents relating to his time in the White House because Bush "was continuing to assert executive privilege over any testimony by Rove -- even after he leaves office."
The letter sets the stage "for what is likely to be a highly contentious legal and political battle over an unresolved issue: whether a former president can assert 'executive privilege' -- and therefore prevent his aides from testifying before Congress -- even after his term has expired."
