Who’ll be the lucky Justice Department official?
Today House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers (D-MI) wrote Attorney General Michael Mukasey to request that a Department official show up for a hearing he’s scheduled this Thursday on the interrogation of detainees. You see, he doesn’t think too much of the Department’s decision to rebuff all Congressional investigation of the CIA’s destruction of the torture tapes. “Parallel congressional and executive investigations occur frequently, and therefore should not be used as a shield against proper and necessary oversight,” is the way he puts it.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179152