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House chairman threatens subpoenas on torture policy

Posted by Anders den april 30, 2008

AP News / Wiredispatch.com: House Judiciary chairman threatens White House with subpoenas on torture policy

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Monday threatened to serve subpoenas on former Attorney General John Ashcroft and two others associated with the Bush administration’s interrogation policies if they don’t agree to testify.

If the three — including John C. Yoo, the former assistant deputy attorney general, and David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff — do not reply by Friday, “I will have no choice but to consider the use of compulsory process,” Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., wrote in letters to them. . . .

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