If and when Democrats do win Congress, they'll have the power to subpoena key administration officials and hold constant hearings harassing the White House and executive branch agencies for wrongdoing.
Detectives Kima Greggs and Lester Freamon, as part of the major crimes unit, investigate Avon Barksdale's political donations and serve several key figures with subpoenas.
WASHINGTON — The lawyer for Roger Clemens and the staff for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform had discussions here Monday that made it more likely Clemens would give a sworn deposition and agree to provide a tape of an interview with his accuser without the panel's having to resort to subpoenas, a key staff member said.
Encrypting such messages is only a partial solution, the researchers argued, because encryption systems can be broken or keys can be subpoenaed.
The panel also agreed to take additional steps to enforce subpoenas to two key figures in the bridge scandal that is engulfing the administration of the Republican governor and possible 2016 presidential candidate.
Finally, a grand jury issued a subpoena, also demanding the keys.
Two days later, I was served the first subpoena for the encryption keys.
Along with Pao, who left Kleiner in late 2012 and is currently serving as the interim CEO of Reddit, a number of key Silicon Valley power players have been subpoenaed to testify as witnesses in the case.
When Gonzales was nominated, the key issues (torture, wiretapping, enforcing Congressional subpoenas, etc) were mostly theoretical.
Wire the White House from top to bottom, and put the results under lock and key, rigidly protected by law from congressional subpoena or citizen lawsuit, for some suitable period of time, say forty years.
