House To Consider Subpoenas For Rove, Miers, Sampson

Via Raw Story, here's a press release that should cause a few sphincters to flutter.

"The Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (CAL) will meet TOMORROW, March 21st at 10:15 am in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building to consider subpoenas for Kyle Sampson, Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, William Kelley, and Scott Jennings, as well as White House and Justice Department documents, which have not been provided to date."

WHO: House Judiciary CAL Subcommittee

WHAT: Authorizing Subpoenas for White House, Justice Officials and Documents

WHEN: TOMORROW, March 21st, 10:15 am

WHERE: 2141 Rayburn HOB

As I've said before, I don't consider myself to have enough lived-in nuance about US legal and political minutae to be competent attempting detailled analysis of the AttorneyGate story. That doesn't mean I'm not following it as best as I can.

One thing I do know, and it is true of politic everywhere: when a nation's leader expresses full confidence in an official during a major scandal, it means that official is on a slippery slope to unemployment and perhaps jail time.

Rumsfield, Libby and Brownie all enjoyed similiar vouchsafing of having Dubya's complete confidence. Look what happened as soon as the next elements of the scandal broke.

There should be no doubt that Alberto Gonzales has participated in just about every excess of the Bush administration as an instigator (in the case of various totalitarian excesses) or as someone who has helped in the cover-ups (Wade/Foggo). His ouster will be a positive thing. I fully expect that, in the process, more scandal will be uncovered which will put other Bush administration members in the firing line.

And the folks most likely to do it are the bloggers at Talking Points Memo: without their sterling work on Wade's corruption and bibery, AttorneyGate, the Foley affair and many others we would not be at this point where the Bush regime is unravelling at a quickening rate. If you have some spare time, go give them a hand to sift through the thousands of pages of documents relating to the current scandal which have now been exposed to scrutiny in a late night DoJ document dump.