Comey: White House pressed Ashcroft on wiretaps
Chillicothe Gazette
05/16/07
A top Justice Department official thought President Bush’s no-warrant wiretapping program was so questionable that he refused for a time to reauthorize it, leading to a standoff with White House officials at the bedside of the ailing attorney general, a Senate panel was told Tuesday. Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he refused to recertify the program because Attorney General John Ashcroft had reservations about its legality just before falling ill with pancreatitis in March 2004...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Comey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ashcroft
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
05/16/07
A top Justice Department official thought President Bush’s no-warrant wiretapping program was so questionable that he refused for a time to reauthorize it, leading to a standoff with White House officials at the bedside of the ailing attorney general, a Senate panel was told Tuesday. Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he refused to recertify the program because Attorney General John Ashcroft had reservations about its legality just before falling ill with pancreatitis in March 2004...
http://tinyurl.com/2rjckc
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Comey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ashcroft
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
rudkla - 17. Mai, 14:04
