Leahy sets final deadline for White House on wiretapping docs

Nick Juliano, Raw Story

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has given the White House another 12 days to hand over documents it requested nearly six weeks ago regarding the administration’s legal justifications for its warrantless wiretapping program.

“Despite my patience and flexibility, you have rejected every proposal,” Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) wrote in a letter to White House counsel Fried Fielding. The administration has “produced none of the responsive documents, provided no basis for any claim of privilege and no accompanying log of withheld documents.”

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