Leahy sets final deadline for wiretapping docs

[kpete]

Leahy sets final deadline for wiretapping docs
By Kara Oppenheim
August 08, 2007

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Wednesday set an Aug. 20 deadline for the Bush administration to produce documents related to the panel’s probe of the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program.

“Despite my patience and flexibility, you have rejected every proposal, produced none of the responsive documents, provided no basis for any claim of privilege and no accompanying log of withheld documents,” Leahy said in a letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding.

On June 27, the committee had issued subpoenas to the Department of Justice, the National Security Council, the White House Office and the Office of the Vice President to provide documents in conjunction with the controversial program.

The files were originally due July 18, but Fielding and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten requested an extension to allow for a more thorough collection and review of documents. Leahy said the two White House officials, in a phone conversation, had indicated that they might only need until Aug. 1 to complete that task.

more at:
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/leahy-sets-final-deadline-for-wiretapping-docs-2007-08-08.html

[The Vinyl Ripper]

1. Wasn't there a Mony Python skit about this?

[frylock]

2. after which a final, final deadline will be set..

lather, rinse, repeat.

[L. Coyote]

3. Congress seeks surveillance documents

Congress seeks surveillance documents
Leahy sets Aug. 20 deadline for testimony about eavesdropping program
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20192507/

Aug 9, 2007

WASHINGTON - Though Congress is on vacation, majority Democrats are keeping alive various fights with the White House with one common thread: Congress' access to administration documents and testimony to which President Bush has claimed executive privilege.

Smack in the middle of the August break, the White House faces a new deadline for producing subpoenaed information about the legal justification for the president's secretive eavesdropping program.

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Ending Gonzales' tenure
Still other officials are considering ways to, in the words of one Republican, "end the tenure of Attorney General Gonzales."

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Contempt citiation pending
On the U.S. attorneys probe, House officials expect by the end of the month to decide when and under what circumstances to bring a contempt citation to the floor against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential legal counselor Harriet Miers.

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[sakabatou]

4. But the real question is...

will they comply?

[L. Coyote]

5. I think we know they will not. What then becomes the question.

At some point the People will have their say in all this.