Congressional Requests for White House Documents on Domestic Surveillance Rebuffed

Follow up to August 20, 2007 posting, White House Fails to Comply With Subpoenas on Domestic Surveillance Program – additional related government documents and news:

  • Letter from Fred Fielding, Counsel to the President, to Chairman Leahy, August 20, 2007
  • Letter from Shannen W. Coffin, Counsel to the Vice President, to Chairman Leahy, August 20, 2007
  • Conyers Announces Further Investigation of Warrantless Surveillance Releases Notes from FBI Director Concerning Ashcroft Hospital Incident: “The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert Mueller, has provided the House Judiciary Committee with notes requested by the Committee that he took recounting the circumstances surrounding the dramatic White House efforts to push then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to recertify a warrantless surveillance program that had already been rejected by the Justice Department.”
  • Washington Post: “Vice President Cheney’s office acknowledged for the first time yesterday that it has dozens of documents related to the administration’s warrantless surveillance program, but it signaled that it will resist efforts by congressional Democrats to obtain them.
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