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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (763845)	7/26/2007 1:31:26 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 769670

"This is pathetic," Mr. Snow said. "This looks like an attempt to provoke something that falls more into the area of political theater than respectful, good governance and trying to do oversight." Ranking Republicans on the House committee said there was no evidence of wrongdoing to legally justify the citation. "There is a lot of myth," said Rep. Chris Cannon, Utah Republican. "There is not a lot of ... evidence that the White House did anything wrong." Mr. Conyers said in response that Mr. Cannon's "appeal for evidence is before the fact." "We are trying to get to the evidence," Mr. Conyers said. President Bush has invoked executive privilege in the face of congressional subpoenas for information about the U.S. attorneys' firings, and he has offered Congress limited access to White House officials and documents. Mr. Bush said he must protect the privacy of the executive branch's internal deliberations. The White House yesterday stood by its offer to allow private interviews with Miss Miers and other administration officials, and attacked Democrats for wasting time and taxpayer money. "Here's what we have seen since the beginning of the Congress," Mr. Snow said. "More than 300 executive branch investigations or inquiries; 400 requests for documents, interviews or testimony. We have had more than 550 officials testify. We've had more than 600 oversight hearings, 87,000-plus hours spent responding to oversight requests, and 430,000 pages made available to Congress for oversight. "We have hundreds of hearings that have produced bupkis," said Mr. Snow, who added that Democrats have engaged in "inquisitions."