CREW MEMBER

(Washington Prowler) - Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and his House Judiciary Committee majority staff sent a subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey for materials involving the Joseph Wilson scandal, using as the basis for the subpoena a laundry list of materials the left-wing extremist group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) provided the committee.

Included in the list of demanded materials are transcripts and notes from FBI interview notes of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former White House chief of staff Andrew Card, and senior Bush advisers Karl Rove and Dan Bartlett. The committee is also seeking confidential legal documents, analysis and memoranda going back to the fall of 2001 and post 9/11, and any and all documents the Department of Justice might possess related to other linger cases -- in the minds of Conyers and CREW. Included in the subpoena were demands for documents related to a host of unrelated cases, including the investigation of former Alabama Gov. Donald Seligman, the firing of a U.S. Attorney, and several other prosecutions of Democrats.

"CREW has its hands in almost every one of these cases, and basically, Conyers is doing its discovery work for them," says a House Republican Judiciary Committee staffer. "This has been an ongoing problem, and no one is calling them on it."

Conyers is using the appearance and testimony of former White House press secretary Scott McClellan as the impetus for the new request.