Leahy warns Justice over terror policies

[sabra]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070102-111005-9521r.htm

Leahy warns Justice over terror policies
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday described as "disappointing" the Justice Department's refusal to release documents detailing the Bush administration's interrogation and detention policy for terrorism suspects.

Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, called on the department and the White House to "reconsider their response" and work with the committee "to promptly share this information, with any appropriate confidentiality safeguards."

Mr. Leahy, who bitterly criticized FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III last month during a committee hearing for refusing to discuss the Bush administration's domestic terrorist-surveillance program, has promised that as chairman he will target what he called the "unprecedented" efforts by the administration to "hide its own activities from the public."

"The department's decision to brush off my request for information about the administration's troubling interrogation policies is not the constructive step toward bipartisanship that I had hoped for, given President Bush's promise to work with us," he said.

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"I have advised the attorney general that I plan to pursue this matter further at the committee's first oversight hearing of the Department of Justice," he said.

[bdamomma]

1. I hope Senator Leahy and others hold these criminals to the fire

because they need it. Checks and Balances must be restored.

[maddezmom]

2. keep pressing them Sen Leahy

[Drum]

3. Go Pat! nt

[gratuitous]

4. Maybe the administration didn't hear

There's a new sheriff in town since the election. And unlike his predecessor, "Go away" isn't an answer he's going to settle for.

[TommyO]

5. I love the smell of subpoenas in the morning!

You can bet that if they continue to stonewall, now that we have subpoena power, there will be more than a few flying around.

[rodeodance]

6. stay Healthy Pat, the US needs you:-)

[williesgirl]

7. A subpoena is the appropriate answer to this "fuck you" from them recommended