BUSH AND CHENEY SUBPOENAED

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 1:27pm

White House, Cheney's Office, Subpoenaed
Jun 27 01:12 PM US/Eastern
By LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday for documents relating to President Bush's warrant-free eavesdropping program.

Also named in subpoenas signed by committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D- Vt., were the Justice Department and the National Security Council.

The committee wants documents that might shed light on internal squabbles within the administration over the legality of the program, said a congressional official speaking on condition of anonymity because the subpoenas had not been made public.

Leahy's committee authorized the subpoenas previously as part of its sweeping investigation into how much influence the White House exerts over the Justice Department and its chief, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

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Updated On: 6/28/07 at 01:27 PM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 1:39pm

WHOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!

lets get it ON!!!!!!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 2:09pm

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 2:12pm

I can't WAIT to hear Cheney's explanation of why he need not answer this supoena. Will he claim that as a Resident of Montana he need not follow laws passed in DC? Or will he respond with a simple but heartfelt "Fcuk you!"

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 2:47pm

An excerpt from Chairman Pat Leahy's letter to White House counsel Fred Fielding:

“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,” Chairman Leahy wrote in letters accompanying the subpoenas to Bush Administration officials. “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.”

“There is no legitimate argument for withholding the requested materials from this Committee,” Leahy wrote. “The Administration cannot thwart the Congress’s conduct of its constitutional duties with sweeping assertions of secrecy and privilege. The Committee seeks no intimate operational facts and we are willing to accommodate legitimate redactions of the documents we seek to eliminate reference to these details.”
Senate Judiciary Committee Wants WH, DOJ's Own "Family Jewels"

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:23am

Bush won't supply subpoenaed documents

WASHINGTON - President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers' demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.

Bush's attorney told Congress the White House would not turn over subpoenaed documents for former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor

The Rest

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:36am

Checkmate!

So now we move to a new game, with higher stakes: "Constitutional Challenge"!

Who said the Democrats were ****whipped?