Raw Story: White House, Cheney Issued Subpoenas

[Hissyspit]

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Cheney_others_served_with_subpoenas_by_0627.html

Cheney, others served with subpoenas by wiretapping investigators
Michael Roston
Published: Wednesday June 27, 2007

The Senate Judiciary Committee has served Vice President Dick Cheney and other officials in the White House and Justice Department with subpoenas over President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping programs.

"Over the past 18 months, this Committee has made no fewer than nine formal requests to the Department of Justice and to the White House, seeking information and documents about the authorization of and legal justification for this program," Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement released to RAW STORY. "All requests have been rebuffed. Our attempts to obtain information through testimony of Administration witnesses have been met with a consistent pattern of evasion and misdirection."

The subpoenas were authorized last week by the Judiciary Committee by a 13-3 vote, and target "documents related to authorization and reauthorization of the program or programs; the legal analysis or opinions about the surveillance; orders, decisions, or opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) concerning the surveillance; agreements between the Executive Branch and telecommunications or other companies regarding liability for assisting with or participating in the surveillance; and documents concerning the shutting down of an investigation of the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) relating to the surveillance," according to the release.

In the subpoena letters, Leahy made particular reference to the Bush administration's attempts to roll back existing oversight of the domestic spying program conducted through the National Security Agency.

"This Committee’s inquiry into this warrantless electronic surveillance is essential to the performance of its constitutional legislative and oversight responsibilities," he wrote. "The Administration has asked Congress to make sweeping changes to FISA – a crucial national security authority over which the Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction. It is impossible to make informed legislative decisions without understanding fully the Administration’s interpretation of FISA and the perceived flaws in that legislation that led the Administration to operate a program outside of its provisions for more than five years."

[SpiralHawk]

1. Stop spying on loyal, law-abiding Americans, you fascist republicon cronies

Why do the republicons HATE America and Americans?

[Fovea]

2. And an AP story on HuffPo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070627/eavesdropping-subpoenas/??

Now, don't back down on this, Dems!

[soothsayer]

3. have we finally got them on the run???

[Fovea]

5. I think they are reloading

but looking at the advancing attack as they do so.
Cheney has told Rove to Cheney himself over a Puggie thousand year Reich.

They are circling the wagons, and even the DLC is starting to smear on the warpaint.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

4. EW!!! I want to know the "3" who voted against holding this administration accountable!!!

:grr:

I am, nevertheless, encouraged to see more resistance against this administration's extreme and gross abuses of office.