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...Will the oversight committee investigate the Libby pardon? -Stephen Henslin, spicer, minn.I haven't decided. The commutation and pardon authority is exclusive to the President, and Congress has no role it in, but I still think we need answers...
...Canada has a choice when it comes to defending our sovereignty over the Arctic. We either use it or lose it. And make no mistake, this government intends to use it.' STEPHEN HARPER, Canadian Prime Minister, on his administration's decision to raise the country's military presence in the Arctic to better display Canada's authority over the Northwest Passage...
...Stephen H. Wentland, HOUSTON...
...regarded Miers' no-show as an affront when he asked, "Are Congressional subpoenas to be honored, or are they optional?" His was one of the morning's calmer statements, with Utah Rep. Chris Cannon, the ranking Republican member, calling the entire investigation a "preposterous, prefabricated, partisan scam" and Rep. Stephen Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, calling for a contempt citation, saying "What we've got here is an empty chair. That's as contemptuous as anybody can be of the government...
...Stephen Hess, a former White House staffer and current scholar at The Brookings Institute, has seen the executive privilege card played a few times - with former Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton - but it usually is resolved by some sort of compromise before it reaches the courts. That might not happen this time. "There's less of a chance of this being settled out of court, both because of what's involved and even because of the psychological stakes on both sides. I don't see anybody who wants to settle out of court, which is too bad because every...