Word: subpoenaing
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...interview with Miers said: "We would appreciate the opportunity to interview you, hopefully on a voluntary basis, about your knowledge and activities concerning the termination of these U.S. attorneys." The clear implication is that if Miers or the White House should resist making her available to the Committee, a subpoena could be issued to compel her testimony...
...ethical lines. Human Bionics, a neuroimaging firm that sells cognitive-assessment and lie-detection services, has hired Illes as an adviser and come up with a 180-page ethics policy that places limits on what the company can extract from the scans and who can access them without a subpoena...
...National security letters permit the executive branch to seek records about people in terrorism and spy investigations without a judge's approval or grand jury subpoena...
Come January, however, the man that the liberal Nation magazine once called the "Eliot Ness of the Democrats" can do even more, thanks to the two words that strike fear in the heart of every government official: subpoena power. As the new chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, Waxman will have free rein to investigate, as he puts it, "everything that the government is involved with." And the funny thing is, Waxman can thank the Republicans for the unique set of levers he will hold. Under a rules change they put through in the days when they used...
...That familiar victor's olive branch did little to placate worried Republicans, who are preparing for life under a Democrat-led House, which will mean the loss of subpoena power and committee chairmanships that comes with defeat. G.O.P. strategists blamed the defeat on two factors: badly run races in the northeast and the wave of scandal that overtook the party. "The scandal seats clearly hurt us and our performance in the northeast was not good," said National Republican Campaign Committee spokesman Carl Forti. But he claimed some solace in races the party appeared likely to pull out in Connecticut...