Monday, August 20, 2007

Leahy Threatens Contempt Proceedings Over NSA Wiretapping Program

An AP newswire article by Jesse J. Holland, via The Boston Globe, reports that:

A top Senate Democrat on Monday threatened to hold members of the Bush administration in contempt for not producing subpoenaed information about the legal justification for President Bush's secretive eavesdropping program.

Leahy's committee on June 27 subpoenaed the Justice Department, National Security Council and the offices of the president and vice president for documents relating to the National Security Agency's legal justification for the wiretapping program.

White House lawyer Fred Fielding, in a Monday letter to Leahy, said that the administration needed more time.

Leahy said they had waited long enough.

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