House rejects request for Cunningham papers

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House rejects request for Cunningham papers

NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

May 16, 2006

WASHINGTON – Justice Department investigators and lawyers for the House of Representatives are wrangling over a request by the department for congressional documents related to its expanding inquiry into the bribery scheme that involved former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a Republican congressional official said yesterday.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego has asked for copies of “tens of thousands” of documents from the House Appropriations, Intelligence, and Armed Services Committees, the official said, as part of its inquiry into whether Cunningham illegally influenced the process the committees use to designate money for military projects.

But lawyers for the Republican-controlled House rebuffed the request as unreasonably broad, the official said, and asked the U.S. Attorney's Office for a shorter list.


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[AlCzervik]

1. buying time imo.

[The Deacon]

2. A shorter list?

What, the Majority Leader's shredder can't handle that big a job?

[TomInTib]

3. I wonder what the response would be if Pelosi was the target.

"Here's the key to her office, boys"

[zbdent]

9. "We'll hold her down as you do a strip-and-body-cavity search

on her . . ." They'd just say that they were "co-operating" . . .

[gratuitous]

11. They're not that ham-handed

A simple anthrax scare, everybody out of Pelosi's office as the decon team mobilizes in their white hazmat suits. The door closes, the suits come off, and it's several hours of unsupervised rummaging. So much easier to conduct a search when the subject or her attorneys aren't there to say, "Hey, wait a second."

[Ravy]

4. Unreasonably broad??? As in the phone records of every American...

isn't.

Have they no shame?

[Zenlitened]

5. THIS is where the republicans decide law enforment activities...

... are "unreasonably broad"?

Why am I not shocked?

:puke:

[Kagemusha]

10. They claim the request will shut Congress down.

If that's true, they have ample reason to say it's unreasonably broad under the separation of powers doctrine.

Though that's a significant if and I have no personal knowledge of the matter.

[Zenlitened]

12. *snort* They will claim anything to cover their asses. - nt

[HuffleClaw]

6. their continued contempt for the law is appalling

but its been made pretty clear they feel themselves above the law.

[nolabels]

8. Which one's?

http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/commodore/commodore_soft_c64.htm

[Botany]

7. "Hold on .... got to get a few things in order ... just a second."