TPMmuckraker talks about Condi Rice ignoring Waxman's supoena:
"After receiving a subpoena last Wednesday from House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) regarding, among other issues, those words and how exactly they found their way into the President’s address in the midst of the march to war with Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went barnstorming across the Sunday Shows yesterday to explain why she feels entirely uncompelled to comply with Waxman and testify before his committee. The crux of her argument: this one’s already been fully investigated; nothing to see here."
I don't really like the article that basically says, I've investigated this a lot and trust me she's lying, but about at least one thing she is. It's true the Senate Intelligence Committee report explicitly didn't investigate this. When she says it's been fully investigated, she's lying. And I don't known why journalists, interviewers, Senators, Congressman, and the American people should let her get away with it.
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Waxman is actually in a pretty weak position. Condi realizes that public pressure will eventually force her to testify, but she had to shape the situation to her advantage: the act of the subpoeana has already driven the Republican members of the committee to her side.
If Rice was actually scared of Waxman, she wouldn't be baiting him like this. But she is, so that tells me she's actually quite confident of her ability to go up there and ream him a new one.
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