One day before nomination Harriet Miers’ nomination to the Supreme Court is withdrawn, we learn this:
A U-S Senate panel may seek testimony from a former Texas lottery official during hearings on Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers of Dallas.
Another lottery official has claimed Miers let a company keep its contract because one of its lobbyists helped President Bush get into the National Guard in the 1960’s.Miers, who’s now the White House counsel, chaired the three-person Texas Lottery commission from 1995 to 2000.
Another lottery official has claimed Miers let a company keep its contract because one of its lobbyists helped President Bush get into the National Guard in the 1960’s.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on November seventh will begin hold hearings on the Miers nomination.
Committee members recently asked lottery contractor G-TECH whether it would object to testimony from Lawrence Littwin.
Littwin, who was the lottery’s second executive director, was fired in 1997 after just four months on the job.
He sued G-TECH, but late settled.
Littwin, who signed a confidentiality agreement, declined to comment other than to say he would agree to testify if subpoenaed.
A G-TECH official says the confidentiality agreement allows Littwin him to discuss the issues with government authorities.
G-TECH, which denies wrongdoing, says it will provide any additional information the senators need.
Bush didn’t WITHDRAW Miers, he RUSHED to head off an investigation of his National Guard past. This wasn’t a cave-in to his base, this was a desperate, “Oh, Shit!” backtracking to avoid a national inquiry into his AWOL past.