Nonetheless, some MPs have called for him to testify under oath about his time in tabloids.
The inquiry will also have the power to summon witnesses to testify under oath.
Duncan refused last month to testify under oath before Congress, but he did consent to be interviewed privately by congressional staffers.
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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It will be led by senior judge Lord Justice Leverson and will have the power to summon witnesses to testify under oath.
Over the weekend, House Speaker Newt Gingrich had already suggested calling her to testify under oath should she decide against an independent counsel.
Republicans fault Lake for not agreeing to testify under oath, and suggest he may have misled Congress and the FBI about White House actions.
The report argued that Mr. Freeh failed to interview several key witnesses, that his investigators didn't have subpoena power and witnesses didn't testify under oath.
But that has not stopped the opposition gleefully demanding that Mr Izui testify under oath before the Diet (parliament) when it reconvenes later this month.
This follows a year of hearings in Washington that pushed the two companies into a harsh spotlight as executives were called to testify under oath.
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Karl Rove may not want to testify under oath before Congress, but he's more than willing to be grilled by another ferocious set: the nation's television reporters.
President Bush accused Democrats on Capitol Hill of playing partisan politics and said he would not allow his top aides to testify under oath about the firings.
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.
The report, which took about six months to complete, contended that Mr. Freeh failed to interview several key witnesses, that his investigators didn't have subpoena power and that witnesses didn't testify under oath.
It wasn't until the 1990s that Rhodes-Hughes was asked whether she would ever be willing to testify under oath -- an invitation coming not from a prosecutor or law enforcement official but from author Philip H.
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.
It's not clear who's telling the truth and I guess we'll find out because both Clemens and his accuser, Brian McNamee, the trainer, have testified under oath and will testify publicly.
He has been negotiating for weeks with Stewart's lawyers, who are trying to stave off a summons that would create a difficult choice for the Princess of Propriety: testify at the risk of contradicting herself under oath or assert her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
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