Since the memos are out on the internet.............

[elf]

.............can Ashcroft still be charged with contempt of Congress by not deliver them???????????

[havocmom]

1. One would think if he did not deliver them to Congress, yes, he would be

in contempt. One would also surmise that if something is already on the internet, the junta cannot make any silly executive privilege claims

[Timefortruth]

2. Why hasn't the senate subpoenaed the records?

That would call Ashcroft's hand wouldn't it?

[Spazito]

4. The repubs would have to agree to the subpoena and...

from the ass-kissing that went on from the repubs yesterday during the hearing, that doesn't look likely, at this point anyway. If there were to be a subpoena for them, I wonder if the case would go, in the end, to the USSC?

[Stephanie]

3. Does anyone have another link for them?

That MSNBC link won't load on my dial-up.

Thanks!

[elf]

5. Try this

http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=0Shrzgi8q7&Content=385

[Justice]

6. I don't think they are all out there

only some of them are out there (and there are likely more that we don't even know about).

[kofijoe]

7. Sorry, but...

... what memos are you guys talking about?

[sundancekid]

8. welcome to DU, kofijoe ... the memos relate to dimson's position

on Geneva Conventions being applicable to conflict in Afghanistan (and then Iraq by consequence) ... here are links to 2 of the memos, one by WH counsel Gonzales (jan 25 2002) and Powell's response (jan 26 2002); note that these memos refer to the "OLC" which is the Office of Legal Counsel within the Justice Dept (read: A$$croft) -- there are supposed to be many more memos, but A$$croft yesterday defied the Senate Judiciary Committee in his appearance claiming HE WILL NOT release those many memos to Congress because of the same ol' "national security" and "executive privilege" crappola we've been hearing for years ...
all this brouhaha got his the now-famous Biden response of: 'YOU MAY BE IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS'

links:

Isikoff story http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4999734/site/newsweek/
Gonzales Memo http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4999148/site/newsweek/
Powell's response http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4999363/site/newsweek/

[kofijoe]

11. Thanks very much! (eom)

[phoebe]

9. - heard a lawsuit is being filed this afternoon regarding these memos.

n/t

[elf]

10. Where, can you specify a bit, please?

[AP]

12. The memos on the internet--IIUC--have an anex that isn't on the internet

and that annex presumably describes exaclty what they were doing in the prisons (what kind of torture they were using).

It's that document that congress wants Aschcroft to produce.