Senate Panel Presses Bush on War's Plan

[kskiska]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — Faced with a refusal by the Bush administration to provide certain documents related to prewar intelligence on Iraq, the Senate intelligence committee voted in a closed session on Thursday to move toward a possible subpoena, according to senior Congressional officials.

The bipartisan vote on the Republican-led panel sets a three-week deadline for a voluntary handover by the administration, after which the committee would employ unspecified "further action," which could only mean a subpoena, the officials said.

In a brief telephone interview, the top Democrat on the panel said that "there's no other interpretation" of the committee's action if the White House fails to turn over the documents by late March.

"We need these things, we want them, and if we don't get them, we will resort to other means," said the Democrat, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, who declined to discuss the committee's deliberations in detail.

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[SilasSoule]

1. How bout a subpoena for the Aug. 6 2001 PDB

While they're at it.

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[HootieMcBoob]

2. It seems like every week somebody's gonna subpoena something

but nothing ever happens. If somebody would just have the balls to stand up to these criminals, I'd fall over in a dead faint. I'll believe it when I see it.

[dusty64]

6. Ain't that the truth.

How many times have they simply refused to accept them and gotten away with it. I've never seen anyone get away with the shit they do over and over. No wonder one party rule is so VERY bad.

[kysrsoze]

3. This thing needs more press. This is so obviously a cover-up

attempt by the White House. Otherwise, they'd be fully willing to supply the documents.

[Leilani]

4. Things must be pretty bad

if Repubs on Committee voted against White House.

[radfringe]

5. docs not turned over because

the whitewash-paint isn't dry on them