Subpoenas! They must testify in public under oath. The House panel just approved subpoenas for Rove, former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, their deputies and Kyle Sampson, Gonzales' chief of staff, who resigned over the Federal Prosecutor firing uproar last week.
The House defied Bush. Bush will likely refuse. Then it will be a showdown that may end up before the Supreme Court. Bush says he doesn't want this to turn into a "spectacle". Clearly the "spectacle" he's worried about is that the truth will come out, and Rove and others will be forced out. But as Patrick Leahy says, "Testimony should be on the record and under oath. That's the formula for true acountability."
