COMMANDING YOUR PRESENCE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Congress of the United States

To Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff to the President:

Pursuant to lawful authority, YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to appear before the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate of the United States, on August 2, 2007, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., at their committee room 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building, then and there to testify what you know relative to the Committee’s inquiry into the preservation of prosecutorial independence and the Department of Justice’s politicization of the hiring and firing of United States Attorneys, and to bring with you the documents described in Attachment A under the terms and conditions stated therein.
Hereof fail not, as you will answer your default under the pains and penalties in such cases made and provided.
To any Committee staff member or U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms to serve and return.

Given under my hand, by authority vested
in me by the Committee, on this 26 day
of July , 2007____.

Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman,

Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate

Documents Subpoenaed
1. Complete and unredacted versions, including complete paper and electronic versions, of any and all documents in your possession, custody or control related to the Committee’s investigation into the preservation of prosecutorial independence and the Department of Justice’s politicization of the hiring and firing of United States Attorneys, including possible misrepresentations to Congress and other violations of federal law. The documents produced shall include, but not be limited to:
A. Any and all documents related to the: 1) evaluation of or decision to dismiss former U.S. Attorneys David Iglesias, H.E. “Bud” Cummins, John McKay, Carol Lam, Daniel Bogden, Paul Charlton, Kevin Ryan, Margaret Chiara, Todd Graves, or any other U.S. Attorney(s) dismissed since President Bush’s re-election (hereinafter “dismissed U.S. Attorneys”); 2) evaluation of any U.S. Attorney(s) considered for dismissal since President Bush’s re-election (hereinafter “U.S. Attorneys considered for dismissal”); 3) the implementation of the dismissal and replacement of the dismissed U.S. Attorneys; and 4) the selection, discussion and evaluation of any possible replacement or interim or acting appointment to fill any vacancy with respect to dismissed U.S. Attorneys and U.S. Attorneys considered for dismissal.
B. Any and all documents related to the testimony of any official at the Department of Justice to the United States Congress regarding any of the matters set forth in paragraph A, above.