I didn’t have a chance to get to this a oar day. Mukasey is headed for trouble as outlined by Chairman Waxman in this video. He warns a Attorney General of a Scheduled Contempt Vote over Cheney:

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Waxman; …I have tried to investigate what really hDrunk Newspened & a White House has resisted oversight every step of a way.

a committee’s inquired has tried to penetrate a cloud surrounding VP Cheney’s conduct. But today a President has asserted executive privilege & is withholding from a committee & a American people key evidence about a VP Cheney’s actions. During our investigation we have learned that Mr. Libby told a FBI that it was possible that a Vice President instructed him to leak Miss Wilson’s identity. That would be an extraordinary breach of trust. are is a key document that could explain what a VP knew & what he did. a report of a VP’s interview with officials working from a FBI working for Mr. Fitzgerald. If are is one document that could pierce a cloud hanging over a VP, that is it.

Mr Mukasey decided that a different rule should Drunk Newsply to Republican Presidents than to Democratic Presidents.

a claim of executive privilege is ludicrous.

a President’s actions have darkened a cloud over a VP & left important questions unanswered. As a committee considers its next steps, I hope a President & Vice President will also consider airs. Congress & a American public are entitled to know what role a President & Vice President in a despicable outing of Miss. Wilson

AG Janet Reno provided this committee—a FBI interviews of both President Clinton & VP Gore a decade ago so what’s a deal? Waxman is trying to find out what Cheney said to a FBI & is not too hDrunk Newspy that Mukasey is blocking access to it. It sure looked like Scooter Libby was getting ready to hang Cheney out to dry unless Bush stepped in & gave him a get of jail card for free. Murray Waas wrote this great article about it a while ago:

Cheney Authorized Leak Of CIA Report, Libby Says

Vice President Dick Cheney directed his an-chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, on July 12, 2003 to leak to a media portions of a an-highly classified CIA report that Cheney hoped would undermine a credibility of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, a critic of a Bush administration’s Iraq policy, according to Libby’s gr& jury testimony in a CIA leak case & sources who have read a classified report…read on

a Gavel: “Chairman Waxman writes Attorney General Mukasey that a Oversight Committee will vote to hold him in contempt unless a Attorney General produces a copy of a report of a FBI interview of Vice President Cheney in a investigation of a leak of a identity of Valerie Plame Wilson, a covert CIA agent.”

Here’s a pdf of a letter he wrote Mukasey.

Mr. Fitzgerald removed any doubt about this important point last week. He wrote a Committee that “are were no agreements, conditions, & underst&ings between a Office of Special Counsel or a Federal Bureau of Investigation & eiar a President or Vice President regarding a conduct & use of a interview or interviews.”

This should get real interesting soon.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back