Most Wanted Surveillance Documents

1. Memorandum prepared by former Deputy Attorney General James Comey which, according to Comey, was sent to the White House shortly after March 10, 2004. The memorandum followed a review of the classified surveillance program (to which Comey referred in his May 15, 2007 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee) and it apparently explained why the Department of Justice in 2004 would not certify the surveillance program as lawful.
2. Memorandum from Department of Justice former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith, who participated in the DOJ’s review of the classified surveillance program. This memorandum was attached to the Comey memorandum and was prepared in the same time frame as that document.
3. Department of Justice Office of Intelligence Policy and Review legal memorandum discussing the classified surveillance program, and drafts of that document. The final document was probably prepared in early March, 2004.
4. Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memorandum prepared in early 2004 -- by Comey's account -- laying out OLC’s legal concerns about the classified program.
5. Memorandum from then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales received by Comey shortly after March 10, 2004 that responded to the determination by the Department of Justice not to certify the lawfulness of the classified surveillance program.
6. January 10, 2007 orders of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorizing what the warrantless surveillance program the Administration calls the Terrorist Surveillance Program.
7. Court order applications related to the FISC authorization of the Terrorist Surveillance Program.

And relevant to this blog, subpoenas voted on the illegal wiretapping program:

http://thinkprogress.org/20...

George W. Bush falls below Jimmy Carter's lowest approval point in latest Newsweek poll.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...

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26%.  (Of course, that's higher than Congress' rating at the moment...)

Did you see Cheney decided the Records Act doesn't apply to his office?

Cheney decided the Vice President's office doesn't fall under the Executive Branch.

Which also means Cheney can't use executive privilege as an excuse. I hope it comes back and bites him in the ass.

Mattloch, the ShrubCheney strategy is simply to run out the clock.  It has a good chance of working, too, but I think the hearings will boost Democrats' chances in '08. 

Subpoenas won't do all that much to help convict, I fear.  That's why BushRove poisoned the Justice Department.

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 Bush is set to use his veto (which he didn't use at *ALL* with Republican pork) against half-a-dozen bills in the near future, in order to stir up the Congress.  The Republican minority is all for it, as they don't really care about running the country. 

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Did you see Cheney decided the Records Act doesn't apply to his office?