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They did something wrong, you know it. Especially Rove.

Rove, Miers Agree to Testify Before House Panel
By Kate Phillips

Karl Rove, the top adviser to former President Bush, and Harriet Miers, a former White House counsel in the previous administration, have agreed to give testimony to the House Judiciary Committee in its investigation of the firings of United States attorneys, House leaders announced tonight.

The two will give sworn depositions; the Judiciary Committee reserved the right to ask them to testify in public.

For the moment, the agreement appears to have ended a lengthy standoff between top Bush advisers and Congressional leaders who had tried to compel them to testify under oath. Many of the attorneys’ firings were criticized as political, and the controversy led to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Just four days before Mr. Bush left office this year, his most recent White House counsel, Fred Fielding, had advised Mr. Rove that he should continue to resist testifying before Congress. The Bush White House had asserted that Mr. Rove had immunity from having to testify about advice he had given to the president and that these matters were protected under executive privilege.

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A little OT... Miner's Canary, take 2

Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Sudan's Leader

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/world/africa/05court.html

PARIS — Judges at the International Criminal Court ordered the arrest Wednesday of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan for atrocities committed in Darfur, but Sudanese officials swiftly retaliated, ordering Western aid groups that provide for millions of people to shut down their operations and leave.

 


Now that the precedent (pun intended) is set, ICC charging a sitting head of state, there's no turning back the clock. Former heads of state should take heed...