A Limited White House Offer

In his letter to members of Congress offering the Judiciary committees the right to interview Harriet Miers and Karl Rove, White House counsel Fred Fielding wrote that the interviews may cover "and would be limited to, the subject of (a) communications between the White House and persons outside the White House concerning the request for resignations of the U.S. Attorneys in question; and (b) communications between the White House and Members of Congress concerning those requests."

Read the letter here.

As currently drafted, the proposal limits the discussion to the resignations issue. Discussion about, say, communications about replacing fired U.S. attorneys would apparently be off limits.

That may be of concern to lawmakers who wish, for instance, to query Rove and Miers about their participation in the naming of Rove's onetime colleague, Tim Griffin, as U.S. attorney in Arkansas.

--Kent Allen