Team Cheney Sits on Wiretapping Documents
On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney's office allowed that it has "dozens of documents" detailing the Bush administration's controversial warrant-free overseas wiretapping program, according to The Washington Post, but it doesn't seem likely that Cheney's cohorts will fork them over without a struggle.On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office allowed that it has “dozens of documents” detailing the Bush administration’s controversial warrant-free overseas wiretapping program, according to The Washington Post, but it doesn’t seem likely that Cheney’s cohorts will fork them over without a struggle.
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The committee’s chairman, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), said yesterday [Monday] that he will pursue contempt proceedings against administration officials if the documents are not produced.
“When the Senate comes back in the session, I’ll bring it up before the committee,” Leahy told reporters yesterday. “I prefer cooperation to contempt. Right now, there’s no question that they are in contempt of the valid order of the Congress.”
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During a visit to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Attorney General Michael Mukasey irked certain senators by wiggling out of directly stating whether or not he believes that waterboarding is a form of torture, an expected but apparently exasperating dodge in the estimation of Sens. Edward Kennedy and Patrick Leahy, among others.
Add Karl Rove to the mix of White House bigwigs whose feet may be put to the fire by the Senate Judiciary Committee in relation to the U.S. attorney firing scandal, which has jeopardized Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (even though his cronies continue to support him).
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