This just in from the House Judiciary Committee:
Conyers Issues Subpoena to Addington
Washington, DC- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers issued a subpoena to David Addington, Chief of Staff to the Vice President, compelling him to testify before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on June 26 at 10 a.m. Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Yoo, who has agreed to testify voluntarily, will testify on that day as well.
A committee staffer tells me no date is set yet for former Attorney General John Ashcroft to testify, though he has agreed to. And in answer to what some of our commenters wanted to know after my earlier post on this subject, the staff member tells me that Conyers intends to ask Yoo, Addington and Ashcroft only about the Administration’s policy toward interrogation of terrorism suspects–and whether they constitute torture. However, the staffer left open the possibility that other members would expand the questioning into areas like the Bush Administration’s domestic surveillance program.
