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Rove, Miers to Testify

Ex-Bush aides had refused earlier requests in attorneys scandal.

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This should be interesting: Former Bush aides Karl Rove and Harriet Miers have struck a deal with the House Judiciary Committee and will testify as part of a probe into the Bush administration’s firings of US attorneys. The on-the-record interviews, sadly, will be given in private—but will be transcribed and released to the public, Politico reports. The deal resolves a battle over executive privilege: President Bush had sought to block the testimony of his former aide and counsel, arguing that as presidential advisers, they were not obliged to testify before Congress.

Read it at Politico

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