Pelosi wants contempt investigation
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked the Justice Department to open a grand jury investigation into whether President Bush’s chief of staff and former counsel should be prosecuted for contempt of Congress.
Pelosi (D-San Francisco) demanded that the department pursue misdemeanor charges against former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers for refusing to testify to Congress about the firings of federal prosecutors in 2006 and against Chief of Staff Josh Bolten for failing to turn over White House documents related to the dismissals.
She gave Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey a week to respond and said refusal to take the matter to a grand jury would result in the House’s filing a civil lawsuit against the Bush administration.
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