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• Dept. Of If Nixon Had Only Thought Of All This ...: Karl Rove To Ignore Senate Supoena

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:57 pm

  Tags: Bush Administration, Dept Of If Nixon Had Only Thought Of All This, Impeachment, Karl Rove, Patrick Leahy, Senate

  Patrick Leahy has subpoenaed Karl Rove, which means Rove must testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee — but not really, although the Senate and House continue to sort of act like they...

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• Senate subpeona’s Karl Rove

  Published: July 26, 2007, 4:11 pm

  Tags: Harriet Miers, Patrick Leahy, U S Attorney Firings, U S Attorney Firing Scandal, Josh Bolton, Power Games, Gop Culture Of Corruption, U S Senate, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Politics

  Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Thursday issued a subpoena for top White House adviser Karl Rove to compel him to testify about the firing of several U.S. attorneys. The evidence shows that senior White House political operatives were focused on the political impact of federal prosecutions and whether federal prosecutors

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• White House Subpoena Watch

  Published: August 20, 2007, 12:25 pm

  Tags: George W Bush, Patrick Leahy, Fred Fielding, Warrantless Wiretaps, Subpoena, Senate Judiciary Committee

  week Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said: ...he'd wait no more. "You have rejected every proposal, produced none of the responsive documents, provided no basis for any claim of privilege and no accompanying log of withheld documents." And when the White House ignores this latest deadline, what will Leahy do?  Will he issue

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• Whose Deadline Is It Anyway?

  Published: August 20, 2007, 7:32 pm

  Tags: Patrick Leahy, Fred Fielding, Warrantless Wiretapping

  wiretapping program, Senator Patrick Leahy's office had a four-word response: The deadline is 2:30. And so it was.  And naturally the administration once again refused to comply, so this afternoon Senator Leahy held a press conference and boldly proclaimed: When the Senate comes back in the session, I'll bring it up before the

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• White House, Senate headed for subpoena showdown

  Published: August 21, 2007, 6:07 am

  Tags: Sen Patrick Leahy, Contempt

  secrecy," Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said at a Capitol Hill press conference Monday afternoon.The Vermont Senator said he'll begin contempt proceedings in the Judiciary Committee if the Bush administration does not comply with the subpoenas by the end of the current congressional recess. A majority of Judiciary Committee members would have

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• The deadline that wasn't a deadline

  Published: August 21, 2007, 11:32 am

  Tags: Patrick Leahy, Subpoenas, Contempt Of Congress

  it's true. Milbank nails Leahy. [The White House has] stalled or ignored Leahy's requests as his committee looks into the wiretapping program and the travails of Gonzales. They have calculated -- accurately so far -- that the Dynamic Duo of Leahy and Schumer would deliver harsh words but no punishment of consequence. "The time is up. The

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• Restore America's Moral Authority

  Published: September 17, 2007, 8:18 pm

  Tags: Chris Dodd, Arlen Specter, Patrick Leahy, Habeas Corpus

  introduced today by Senators Leahy, Dodd, and Specter. Here's what today's Time's says about the effort: In 2006, acting in reckless haste before an election, 65 senators and 250 members of the House defied the Constitution, endangered the safety of American soldiers and hurt the nation’s global reputation by passing the Military

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• Want to restore habeas corpus in the US? Contact your Senator ASAP

  Published: September 18, 2007, 6:32 pm

  Tags: Law, Politics News, Chris Dodd, Civil Liberties, Habeas Corpus, Military Commissions Act, Patrick Leahy

  Sens. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), have introduced an amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization bill that would restore habeas corpus -- the right of detained by the US to appear before a judge and demand proof that they have been lawfully arrested. That right, enshrined in the US Constitution, was vacated by passage of

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• Congress Seeks Secret Memos On Interrogation

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Congress, Seeks, Secret, Memos, Interrogation, George W Bush, Central Intelligence Agency, U S Department Of Justice, The White House, United States, Alberto Gonzales, Steven G Bradbury, Fran Townsend, John Mccain, Michael Mukasey, Patrick Leahy, Doj Office Of Legal C

  Democratic lawmakers assailed the Justice Department yesterday for issuing secret memos that authorized harsh CIA interrogation techniques, demanding that the Bush administration turn over the documents. But officials refused and said the tactics did not violate anti-torture laws.

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• White House to Give Senate Panel Surveillance Program Documents

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: White, House, Give, Senate, Panel, Surveillance, Program, Documents, Michael Mukasey, Patrick Leahy, The White House, John Conyers, United States, Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Fred Fielding, Jonathan Weisman, Joseph Lieberman, Kit Bo

  The White House agreed yesterday to give Senate intelligence committee members and staff access to internal documents related to its domestic surveillance program in a bid to win Democratic lawmakers' support for the administration's version of an intelligence measure.

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• White House to Give Senate Panel Surveillance Program Documents

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: White, House, Give, Senate, Panel, Surveillance, Program, Documents, Michael Mukasey, Patrick Leahy, The White House, John Conyers, United States, Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Fred Fielding, Jonathan Weisman, Joseph Lieberman, Kit Bo

  The White House agreed yesterday to give Senate intelligence committee members and staff access to internal documents related to its domestic surveillance program in a bid to win Democratic lawmakers' support for the administration's version of an intelligence measure.

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• Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate, Bush, Agree, Terms, Spying, Bill, George W Bush, United States, Al Qaeda, Arlen Specter, Osama Bin Laden, Patrick Leahy, The White House, Central Intelligence Agency, U S Republican Party, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Cable News Network Lp Lllp

  Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government's domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have...

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• Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate, Bush, Agree, Terms, Spying, Bill, George W Bush, United States, Al Qaeda, Arlen Specter, Osama Bin Laden, Patrick Leahy, The White House, Central Intelligence Agency, U S Republican Party, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Cable News Network Lp Lllp

  Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government's domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have...

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• Next Stop: Nirvana

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Next, Stop, Nirvana, Michael Mukasey, Patrick Leahy, U S Department Of Justice, Dalai Lama, George W Bush, Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Arlen Specter, Ben Cardin, Capitol Hill, Herb Kohl, Jeff Sessions, John Cornyn, Joseph Lieb

  The Senate Judiciary Committee was meeting yesterday to hear from attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey, but Chairman Pat Leahy's thoughts kept drifting to the mountains of Tibet.

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• Bipartisan Dining With the Devil?

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bipartisan, Dining, The, Devil, Charles Schumer, Patrick Leahy, Rahm Emanuel, Dalai Lama, John Murtha, Ray Lahood, Michael Mukasey, Bp Plc, Federal Election Commission, California, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Brad Ellsworth, Doc Hastings, Fred Upton, Heath Shuler, Jo A

  What's up with this bipartisanship fad? Last week it was the Senate majority and minority leaders, Sens. Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), all playing nice at the McConnell Center in Louisville. Now we learn that Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) has been cozying up with the very people...

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