Perino: No DOJ action will be taken on contempt citations

Yesterday the Senate judiciary committee voted to find Rove and Bolton in contempt of Congress and allow a floor vote The floor vote, if it ever happenes, is doomed, so the Committee vote was an empty gesture from the outset.

But in the extreme improbability that Congress affirmed the contempt citation, Dana Perino has assured that the Justice Department would not pursue the matter:

"The Department of Justice would not require a U.S. attorney to convene a grand jury or otherwise pursue a prosecution of an individual who carries out a president's instruction not to provide documents or testimony on the basis of the president's assertion of executive privilege," Perino said.

It looks like these situations aren't hypothetical to Mukasey anymore.

There is no pretense by the WH that DOJ will independently review the matter before it "officially" dismisses it, skipping that step promotes efficiency. The WH can now openly speak for the Attorney General. There was never a shred of doubt that Mukasey would be independent, but those who made that laughable claim are exposed, again.

Update:

This is from Chuck Schumer's Senate site:

Judge Mukasey is a lawyer’s lawyer. He will not leap to quick judgments. When we want him to do so, such as on torture, we will be disappointed. But when he resists those in the administration who want quick and facile answers, so they can get their way, so they can roll over civil liberties and blot out separation of powers, it is they who will be disappointed.

Will Chuck now tell us how sorry he is that the investigation into political corruption of DOJ by the White House has been thwarted by political corruption of DOJ by the White House?