Posted on 08/20/2007 1:26:21 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top Senate Democrat on Monday threatened to hold members of the Bush administration in contempt for not producing subpoenaed information about the legal justification for President Bush's secretive eavesdropping program.
"When the Senate comes back in the session, I'll bring it up before the committee," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I prefer cooperation to contempt. Right now, there's no question that they are in contempt of the valid order of the Congress."
Leahy's committee on June 27 subpoenaed the Justice Department, National Security Council and the offices of the president and vice president for documents relating to the National Security Agency's legal justification for the wiretapping program.
White House lawyer Fred Fielding, in a Monday letter to Leahy, said that the administration needed more time.
"A core set of highly sensitive national security and related documents we have so far identified are potentially subject to claims of executive privilege and that a more complete collection and review of all materials responsive to the subpoenas will require additional time," Fielding said.
Leahy said they had waited long enough.
"It has been almost two months since service of the subpoenas, three weeks since the time they asked for additional time. And still, we have nothing at all," Leahy said.
Leahy also questioned whether the Senate would again reauthorize laws that expand the government's authority to spy on foreigners without the subpoenaed information.
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So when will Bush’s justice department open investigations on Feinstein, Schumer and Reid? That would be fair play.
“I prefer cooperation to contempt.’’,,,,,,,,,,,,,I prefer Leaky in a Batman costume, rather than serving in Congress!!!
This should be interesting.
I have contempt for anything Leahy does.
Senator lehey(sp) is up to no good on this one, and I hope he gets Cheney to testify, and I really hope that he will give leahy the same response he gave to another committee member in one of his last appearances (and you all know what that was!) It is too bad that we have to endure this type of crap when there are important things that need addressing. Is there anyone out there that can tell this loser to shut up and go home? If I were Gonzolas, I would turn my dogs on him and just find something on him to send him where he belongs.
OUTSTANDING FReeper comments! LOL!
I prefer to let Cick Cheney tell Leahy my thoughts
about him and the rest of the D’s on the Committee...
Schumer, Kennedy,etc. Second thought..Dick, tell
them to go after the doughnut hole too. JK
After all, he voted for it.
Bring it on...let’s have the constitutional challenge to executive privilege be decided once and for all so they will Shut up!
LOL, just too good.
Only in the NY Times.
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