For Immediate Release
April 28, 2008 |
Contact: Jonathan Godfrey
Melanie Roussell |
(Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) sent letters to former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Yoo, chief of staff to the vice president David Addington, and former Attorney General John Ashcroft urging them to agree to testify voluntarily at the committee's upcoming hearing about the recently released Office of Legal Counsel memos on torture and interrogation, and related subjects. In each of the letters, Conyers provides a May 2 deadline for response or, he says, "I will have no choice but to consider the use of compulsory process."
The letters to the potential witnesses are linked below, along with their responses to the committee's original invitation.
Letter from VP Counsel Wheelbarger to Judiciary Committee Chief Counsel
Response to Chairman Conyers About Yoo Invitation to Testify
Response to Chairman Conyers About Ashcroft Invitation to Testify
Response from Chairman Conyers to Yoo Attorney Millian
Response from Chairman Conyers to VP COS Addington
Response from Chairman Conyers to Ashcroft Attorney Cooper
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