Mukasey subpoenaed to release Bush interview report

A House panel on Monday issued a subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey to force the release of documents related to President Bush’s interview with investigators regarding the leaking of a CIA operative’s name.

{mosads}The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued the subpoena to get Mukasey to send to the panel the FBI interview reports of Bush and Vice President Cheney, as well as other documents related to the outing of former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson.

Earlier this month, the Department of Justice (DoJ) rejected a request to release the documents on the grounds that the demand “raises serious separation of powers and heightened confidentiality concerns.”

“Although these reports will not be made available to the committee, we remain open to any reasonable suggestions on how to provide information that the committee believes it may need,” said Keith Nelson, DoJ’s principal deputy assistant attorney general, in a letter to committee chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.). “It continues to be our belief that the extensive interview reports for White House staff and other documents that have been and may be made available for review will satisfy the committee’s needs.”