Cafferty File: Questions for Rove & Miers about U.S. attorney firings?

06 March 2009
From The Cafferty File:
Former top Bush aides Karl Rove and Harriet Miers have finally agreed to testify under oath before Congress about the firings of those U.S. attorneys.

The Bush White House had fought attempts to force them to testify — citing executive privilege — but an agreement has now been reached between lawyers for Presidents Bush and Obama. Rove and Miers will appear before the House Judiciary Committee in closed depositions. The committee says it might also call on them for public testimony. Rove was President Bushs top political adviser for most of his presidency; and Miers was the top White House legal adviser for about two years.

The controversy goes back to those 2006 firings of federal prosecutors in nine cities and includes allegations of political interference. According to an e-mail from a former Justice Department official, some of these U.S. attorneys were singled out because they were not loyal Bushies.

Committee chairman John Conyers says this is a vindication of the search for truth. And for his part, Karl Rove tells Fox News that hes looking forward to telling the committee about his alleged role in the firing of federal prosecutors — although he says it could turn into a show trial. Rove says Conyers probably has more interest in him than other former White House aides, stating I understand they may be the hors doeuvres, but Im the main course. Some Democrats would love to have me barbecued.

As documents continue to surface from the Bush era theres a hunger in some corners to set the record straight about the legality of a lot of stuff that happened over the past eight years.

Heres my question to you: What would you ask Karl Rove and Harriet Miers about the firing of those U.S. attorneys?