Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Senators press for spying details

U.S. senators on Tuesday accused the Bush administration of “stonewalling” a congressional investigation into the legality of the National Security Agency’s domestic spying. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the senior Democrat on the Judiciary committee, said that the White House apparently believes that “there’s no place for congressional or judicial oversight of any of its activities related to national security.” “They’re running roughshod over the Constitution, and they’re hiding behind inflammatory rhetoric” about the war on terror, Leahy said during a hearing that lasted almost three hours. Because of administration “stonewalling,” Leahy added, the committee may have to resort to issuing subpoenas to obtain the information it wants.

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