This congressional subpoena for Donald Rumsfeld struck me as uncommon. I made some calls, and what do you know — it is uncommon.
I’ve spoken with two Capitol Hill authorities (who wouldn’t be named), and neither could remember more than one or two congressional subpoenas issued to the Bush administration.
One came in 2001, as part of a congressional probe into how the Justice Department in Boston had used (and protected) a murderer as an informant. Another was in 2005, when Sens. Collins and Lieberman were trying to get base closure information out of the Pentagon.
A copy of the subpoena, rare flower that it is, now lives on our site. You can see it for yourself right here.
