The Bush administration on Tuesday decided to allow Rice to testify publicly to the independent commission under oath, a reversal that came after weeks of public pressure to do so.
Forcing a woman to violate her religious beliefs to testify would seem to qualify as harassment and embarrassment.
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He is expected to testify next week, and President Clinton is tentatively scheduled to testify in late April to reject Hale's allegations and assail his truthfulness.
And he refused to allow Genger to testify without providing corroborating evidence to support his words.
Moroccan-born Ms Mahroug complained that the judges' decision not to allow her to testify in the case amounted to "psychological violence".
Then they persuaded Dan Burton, a Republican congressman well known for right-wing fervour, to issue a subpoena for Elian to testify before Congress, to stop him leaving the country.
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.
AOL's chief executive Steve Case, and Time Warner's Gerald Levin, are to be called to testify before Congress later this month to discuss the issue.
In February 2002, Lay was called before Congress to testify but invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify.
Now five international media organisations have supported his stand, urging the tribunal "to recognize a qualified privilege for journalists not to be compelled to testify about their news gathering before this court unless certain conditions are met - namely that the information is absolutely essential to the case and that it cannot be obtained by any other means".
The Defense Department has been asked to send someone to testify but is having a hard time finding anyone who wants to go on the record as supporting it.
Now, the heart of the managers' argument is that there was no way that an honest affidavit could achieve what the president and Ms. Lewinsky both wanted to have achieved, which was to avoid her having to testify.
The inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program is investigating whether the administration pressured GM to give the UAW special treatment, but the IG lacks subpoena power to force officials to testify.
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Prosecutors also want to have an FBI agent testify to his analysis of Mr. Valle's cellphone-data records, which prosecutors say show Mr. Valle placed calls that were routed through cell towers near some of the homes or workplaces of victims they alleged he was stalking.
The president made false statements to his aides and associates about the nature of the relationship, as we have seen, with knowledge that they could testify to that effect to the grand jury sitting here in Washington.
Subcommittee Chairman Curt Weldon took him to task for failing to testify honestly concerning additional steps Weldon previously had been told by BMDO could be taken to enhance a variety of U.S. theater missile defense programs.
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With lawsuits flying around and other shenanigans taking place (one lawsuit seeks to close down two schools that it said were full-time virtual schools, when they are in fact blended-learning schools, for example), I was pleased to have the opportunity about a month ago to travel to the Garden State to testify in a hearing before the Joint Committee on Public Schools about online learning.
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David Radler, once a key advisor to Conrad Black, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and agreed to testify against others in the case.
Were they to get information, or were they to get her to falsely testify when she was called as a witness?
Now, he refuses to answer interrogatories from Senator Lott and refuses to appear at this trial to testify on his own behalf.
That means police need to get a warrant before hooking up laptops to cars and forcing them to testify against their drivers.
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Two Commerce Department officials -- William Ginsberg, who was chief of staff to Ron Brown, and Timothy Hauser, the current deputy undersecretary for administration -- are expected to testify about Huang's desire to keep his top-secret security clearance when he left Commerce to join the Democratic National Committee.
He has forced a nervous Abramovich to testify under oath to embarrassing and illegal deeds under the loans-for-shares program and thereafter.
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The threat of long prison sentences creates an all-or-nothing situation in which top executives refuse to testify in order to avoid self-incrimination.
The trial court judge permitted the Sergeant to testify as to the authenticity of the printed pages of the MySpace site that contained the photograph in question.
Francisco Lopes, briefly appointed governor of the central bank at the time of Brazil 's devaluation in January, refused to testify under oath to a Senate inquiry into leaks of official information.
For example, they might be called to testify as to whether the snowfall in a given month was typical or atypical, in order to determine whether a roof that collapsed was properly designed.
Rove was also quick to dismiss the notion that his refusal to testify in a probe of the Bush administration's firing of federal prosecutors amounted to too much political baggage for a news analyst to carry.
This cuts court costs, but the system is open to abuse, especially if prosecutors use the carrot of a shorter sentence to encourage a suspect to testify against others.
He forced several journalists to testify to a grand jury as to who from the administration had told them about Ms Plame's job.
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