Up Chuck And Di-Fi

Gee, Schumer and Feinstein, are you happy?

Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday refused to refer the House's contempt citations against two of President Bush's top aides to a federal grand jury. Mukasey says they committed no crime.

Mukasey said White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential counsel Harriet Miers were right in refusing to provide Congress White House documents or testify about the firings of federal prosecutors.

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"The contempt of Congress statute was not intended to apply and could not constitutionally be applied to an executive branch official who asserts the president's claim of executive privilege," Mukasey wrote, quoting Justice policy.

"Accordingly," Mukasey concluded, "the department has determined that the noncompliance by Mr. Bolten and Ms. Miers with the Judiciary Committee subpoenas did not constitute a crime."

Marcy has the reaction from Pelosi and Conyers.

Not to state the obvious but there are too many Republicans in the Democratic* caucus.

*At first I accidentally spelled this "Demoncratic." Freudian slip? You decide!

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