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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I cannot help but think of the Clintons when this crap comes from the Dems.
If President Bush had the cojones, he would direct the Department of Justice to open an investigation into Senator Leahy’s national security leaks in the past. That would shut him up.
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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.
Didn’t the Democrats just assist in passing legislation for a secretive eavesdropping program? Hmmm
Leaky Leahy and Dims= bratty bunch of kids
Sure, get people killed because you are feeling dissed.
Oh the Clintons taught us how to handle this:
Just say: “I can’t recall”
Repeat as often as necessary.
When does Bush subpeona Leahy’s aides or is this just a one way street? Can you imagine the bluster coming out of Congress if Bush went after Congressional aides like these idiots come after Bush’s aides?
I think tit for tat is appropriate when there is zero evidence of wrong doing and it is all a show for their Bush Derangement Syndrome audience.
I forget, how many years did it take the Hildebeast to find those pesky billing records in the White House?
What'll he do when they don't comply, whack them with a stick?
I’m sure that all the members of the Bush Administration have held you in contempt for a long time Senator Leaky....btw, I would pay BIG $$$$$$$ for the privilege of watching this communist and traitorous slime hung on the steps of the capitol.....would be a cable moment.
yawnnnnnnnnn
I think that phrase deserves the DougFromUpland treatment, to the tune of "If I Had a Million Dollars..."
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