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...crime she's worried about? The mention of Libby suggests that it's perjury, but as Professor Orin Kerr, a criminal law expert at George Washington Law School, points out, you can't take the Fifth to avoid being prosecuted for lies you plan to tell under oath...
...Another possibility is that she believes Democratic members of Congress are on a mere witch hunt and will cook up charges against her, no matter what she says under oath. Her lawyer's letter alludes to this by mentioning that some members have already decided they were lied to by Bush Administration officials, and plan to "use the hearings to promote [their] political party." As a reason to plead the Fifth, though, "That's a new one," says Kerr. "I don't think I've ever come across that one before...
...Although President Bush has not yet invoked executive privilege in the U.S. attorneys standoff, White House counsel Fred Fielding alluded to it when he mentioned "the constitutional prerogatives of the presidency" in a letter offering a compromise to Congress. Democratic members had demanded that Administration officials testify under oath about why eight U.S. attorneys were fired, and this morning a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee approved, but did not issue, subpoenas for Bush adviser Karl Rove, former counsel Harriet Miers and several White House deputies...
...Fielding offer would allow those officials to speak with Congress, though not on the record or under oath. A federal statute makes lying to Congress illegal, even when no oath is taken, says Professor Michael Dorf of Columbia Law School, but some have suggested that the absence of a record would make proof of lying difficult. In any event, if Congress continues to reject the offer, and the White House spurns any subpoenas on the basis of executive privilege, the result could be a tense constitutional stalemate headed for the Supreme Court...
...more bending to the will of Democrats in Congress. He said he was willing to allow Karl Rove, Harriet Miers and other key aides to be privately interviewed about the controversy over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Such private interviews do not need to be done under oath. "We will not go along with a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants," Bush said. "I proposed a reasonable way to avoid an impasse." He insisted that "there's no indication... that anybody did anything improper." The response from Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy was swift and uncompromising...