White House Doesn’t Want Rove and Miers to Testify In Public or Under Oath or with Transcript

Brian Zick

Pete Yost for AP reports: The White House offered Tuesday to make political strategist Karl Rove and former counsel Harriet Miers available for interviews — but not testimony under oath — before congressional committees investigating the firing of eight federal prosecutors. (…) "Such interviews would be private and conducted without the need for an oath, transcript, subsequent testimony, or the subsequent issuance of subpoenas," Fielding said in a letter to the chairman of the House and Senate judiciary committees.

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