On November 25, 1947 (the day after the House of Representatives approved citations of contempt for the Hollywood Ten), Eric Johnston, President of the Motion Picture Association of America, issued a press release on behalf of the heads of the major studios that came to be referred to as the Waldorf Statement.
McChrystal, in his confirmation hearings, acknowledged that some statements "look contradictory," but said his error was approving a citation "that was not well-written" — as if the problem was the clumsy language of his subordinates, and not his own.
(See Jon Krakauer's "Where Men Win Glory" for more on that). McChrystal, in his confirmation hearings, acknowledged that some statements "look contradictory," but said his error was approving a citation "that was not well-written"—as if the problem was the clumsy language of his subordinates, and not his own.
A writ of error from this court had been allowed in Washington on the 5th of April, and the supersedeas bond approved, and citation signed.
While that may be correct with respect to the U.S. Senate, which appears to be the focus of Mahler's discussion, the House of Representatives did approve contempt citations earlier this year for the key White House officials Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten.
Both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees have similarly approved contempt citations for former White House chief political aide Karl Rove.
McChrystal acknowledged he had suspected several days before approving the Silver Star citation that Tillman might have died by fratricide, rather than enemy fire.
And the family of Pat Tillman, the football star who became a Ranger after 9/11 and died in a "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan, criticizes McChrystal for approving Tillman's Silver Star citation for bravery "in the line of devastating enemy fire" just a day before distributing a memo saying that it was "highly possible" the former Arizona Cardinals safety was killed by his own colleagues.
The contempt citation, approved in July by the Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote, stems from the refusal of the two to testify before the panel in the investigation into whether several United States attorneys were dismissed for political reasons.
A writ of error from this court for the reversal of the judgment of the supreme court was duly allowed in Washington on the fifth of April, and a supersedeas bond approved, and a citation signed.
A civil citation approved Thursday by the House will likely not wind its way through the courts before Mr. Obama's term concludes at the end of this year, and few expect Mr. Holder to stay on if there is a second term.
