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...This is not Harriet Miers, the under-qualified candidate proposed by President George W Bush in 2005, only to withdraw amid general acrimony....
...From ‘Chilli Notes’ by Thomasina Miers (Hodder)...
...Then in October, Mr Bush ran into a huge backlash after nominating his lawyer Harriet Miers, who later withdrew, to the Supreme Court....
...Bush tapped his legal lap dog Harriet Miers for the court, it was the Republican right, which did not know her, that rose up in opposition....
...The committee has asked a US district court to enforce contempt charges against Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel, and Joshua Bolten, Mr Bush’s chief of staff, after both refused to comply with...
...Miers, for the Supreme Court, two years back....
...Her exit comes after other members of the Texas clan – a group that included Harriet Miers, Karl Rove, Dan Bartlett and Alberto Gonzales – have left the administration, sometimes under a cloud....
...The others – the so-called “Texas mafia” that included Harriet Miers, the former counsel, Dan Barlett, director of communications, Karen Hughes, a senior adviser, Alberto Gonzales, the out-going attorney-general...
...The House voted to hold Josh Bolten, White House chief of staff, and Harriet Miers, former White House counsel, in contempt for ignoring subpoenas to testify about the fired attorneys....
...Miers, White House counsel - January 2007 John Bolton, UN ambassador - December 2006 Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defence - December 2006 Norman Mineta, transportation secretary - July 2006 Robert...
...He is the third long-serving Texan adviser to quit the administration since January, when Harriet Miers stepped down as Mr Bush’s legal counsel....
...On Wednesday, the House judiciary committee issued a contempt citation against Josh Bolten, the White House chief of staff, and Harriet Miers, a former White House lawyer, for refusing to testify on the...
...The contempt citations, issued against Josh Bolten, the White House chief of staff, and Harriet Miers, Mr Bush’s former senior counsel, mark a significant escalation of a six- month tussle between the executive...
...Bush’s chief political strategist, and Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel....
...However, in a January 2006 e-mail to then White House counsel Harriet Miers, Mr Sampson offered four replacement candidates for US attorneys who were eventually fired....
...Other Texan loyalists to have recently left the administration include Karl Rove, former White House political adviser, Alberto Gonzales, former attorney-general, and Harriet Miers, former White House counsel...
...The Senate judiciary committee last week authorised subpoenas to five top Justice Department officials but put off a decision on Mr Rove and former White House counsel Harriet Miers....
...Mr Bush has offered to make Mr Rove and Harriet Miers, former White House counsel, available for private informal interviews but has said he would fight efforts to force them to testify in public or under...
...Miers, the former White House counsel, to testify....
...Yet, unlike many of the other Bush confidantes who have resigned recently – including Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, Karen Hughes and Harriet Miers, Townsend was an outsider....
...Mr Rove is the third White House official embroiled in the controversy to have quit this year, following Harriet Miers, the former legal counsel, and Sara Taylor, former political director....
...In January, Fred Fielding, a veteran of the Nixon and Reagan administrations, was appointed White House legal adviser in place of Harriet Miers, a close friend and former personal lawyer to Mr Bush....
...A House of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday authorised subpoenas that would require Mr Rove and Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel, to testify under oath about the affair....
...Bush’s top adviser, and Harriet Miers, his former counsel, to appear before Congress to explain their roles in the affair....
...The president was responding to Democratic anger over his refusal to accede to their request that Karl Rove, his senior strategist, and Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel, testify over the controversial...
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