White House wants more time on Senate subpoenas

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White House wants more time on subpoenas

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer Fri Aug 17, 6:47 PM ET

CRAWFORD, Texas - The White House on Friday asked a Senate panel for more time to produce subpoenaed information about the legal justification for President Bush's secretive eavesdropping program.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy had set Monday as the deadline for administration officials already subpoenaed to provide documents and testimony about the National Security Agency's eavesdropping program.

The White House already has been given one extension, said an aide to Leahy, D-Vt.

"In requesting that last extension, the White House counsel suggested that the administration would be ready to respond by Aug. 1," Leahy spokeswoman Erica Chabot said Friday. "The new deadline is three weeks past the time the White House counsel had estimated was needed. The committee looks forward to the administration complying with the subpoenas."

In a letter to Leahy, White House counsel Fred Fielding contended that the subpoenas sought production of "extraordinarily sensitive national security information" and that much of the information — if not all — could be subject to a claim of executive privilege.

Fielding asked Leahy to suspend the deadline until after Labor Day.

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[MissWaverly]

1. mission accomplished - 2003

we are still not anywhere near accomplishing the mission, this crew has no intention of complying
and sees compromise and compliance as weakness.