House leaders demand FBI return documents
Bloomington Pantagraph
05/24/06
In rare, election-year harmony, House Republican and Democratic leaders jointly demanded on Wednesday that the FBI return documents taken in a Capitol Hill raid that has quickly grown into a constitutional turf fight beyond party politics. 'The Justice Department must immediately return the papers it unconstitutionally seized,' House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement. Within hours, according to several Republican officials, White House aides were involved in talks with Hastert's staff concerning the possible transfer of the documents, possibly to the House ethics committee...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
05/24/06
In rare, election-year harmony, House Republican and Democratic leaders jointly demanded on Wednesday that the FBI return documents taken in a Capitol Hill raid that has quickly grown into a constitutional turf fight beyond party politics. 'The Justice Department must immediately return the papers it unconstitutionally seized,' House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement. Within hours, according to several Republican officials, White House aides were involved in talks with Hastert's staff concerning the possible transfer of the documents, possibly to the House ethics committee...
http://tinyurl.com/eancr
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 25. Mai, 17:37