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Leahy Wants Wiretapping/U.S. Attorney DocsBefore Confirming Gonzales Replacement

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Leahy Threatens Bush Aides With Contempt

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"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.

"When the Senate comes back in the session, I'll bring it up before the committee," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I prefer cooperation to contempt. Right now, there's no question that they are in contempt of the valid order of the Congress."

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."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070820/democrats-subpoenas/

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Leahy: Cheney Told GOP-Led Congress It Was ‘Not Allowed To Issue Subpoenas’

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"Today in a press briefing, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) revealed that the White House had missed its 2:30 PM deadline to turn over documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding legal justifications for the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping program. The Committee had already pushed back the original July 18 deadline twice after the White House requested more time."

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/20/cheney-leahy-subpoena/

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