It seems that the Bush administration has promised to fight any subpoena of White House advisors all the way to the Supreme Court. The inherent problem with this is that by the time it gets before the courts, it will be too late: Bush will have left office or his term will be so close to over that accountability will only come in the form of criminal charges in the normal sense. I was infuriated at this attempt to utterly obstruct justice and throw it upon the courts, which they hope they have biased in their favor. How unfair is that? Are we just going to sit here and take that kind of abuse of power used merely to firewall themselves from Justice? So I started to make some phone calls and at one point got reach of a staffer at the House Judiciary Committee to ask him about what I had heard about using the sergeat-at-arms to enforce the law if the DOJ refused. What I was told was that the committee was considering this option. This leads me to believe that they've beaten all of us to the punch on this idea. I'm pretty optimistic that this is the route that will be taken.