H-E-L-L-L-L-OOOO! Senators Leahy and Specter! The White House is NOT going to stop stonewalling

TPMmuckraker reports...

In a joint letter today, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) and ranking member Arlen Specter (R-PA) wrote to demand documents relevant to the administration's domestic surveillance program, specifically the the legal justifications and analysis for the program.

Noting that the committee has been seeking these documents for the last 18 months, the two wrote, "Your consistent stonewalling and misdirection have prevented this Committee from carrying out its constitutional oversight and legislative duties for far too long."

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The two requested the documents by no later than June 5, 2007.

a commenter adds...

They've been seeking them for 18 months?! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This "oversight" is such a freaking joke. Please tell me Monica Goodling is going to make it all okay because right now I don't have a lot of faith in justice being served.

so, ONE MORE TIME...

the white house is not going to stop stonewalling... here's the warning label that bushco prominently affixed to its post-2006 election plans last october...

(from time magazine...)

In fact, when it comes to deploying its Executive power, which is dear to Bush's understanding of the presidency, the President's team has been planning for what one strategist describes as "a cataclysmic fight to the death" over the balance between Congress and the White House if confronted with congressional subpoenas it deems inappropriate. The strategist says the Bush team is "going to assert that power, and they're going to fight it all the way to the Supreme Court on every issue, every time, no compromise, no discussion, no negotiation."

anybody who has been paying the slightest bit of attention can see that they are following their game plan to the letter... we have a clear, full-blown constitutional crisis... when are we going to start treating it that way...? enough of this pussyfooting around...

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