Pressure increases on spy subpoena
A top Senate Democrat 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 J. Leahy (D-Vt.), 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.”
On June 27, Leahy’s committee 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 wiretapping.
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