Senate Democrats Want Ashcroft Memos

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/49_141/news/5970-1.html (subscription required)

Senate Democrats are pushing for a floor vote, possibly as early as this week, on their effort to compel Attorney General John Ashcroft to turn over Justice Department memoranda regarding legal opinions on torturing prisoners of war.

Hoping to put the entire Senate on record regarding one of the Bush administration’s most controversial figures, Judiciary Committee Democrats won assurances from Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) that he will push the Ashcroft subpoena issue onto the floor.

“If we cannot complete our efforts satisfactorily in the committee, we will look for the appropriate vehicle and do it on the floor,” Daschle said Thursday just before a party-line 10-9 vote in Judiciary turned back the Democratic subpoena request.

Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) dismissed the issue out of hand, calling the subpoenas a “fishing expedition” and a “dumb-ass thing to do.” Hatch and other Judiciary Republicans instead have said they would like to give Ashcroft and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales more time to meet the committee’s request that they turn over the documents, a request that was made at Ashcroft’s June 9 appearance before the panel.

they just get in on the internet like we did. Maybe someone can send them an email.

F^**ing permision?????????

Biden was ready to explode and rip A a new one.

like they always do.

They make me sick. He's in contempt of congress and he knows it and he doesn't care, he'll try to hang on to them as long as possible, maybe someone will just give up and leak them in the middle of the night .

while being contemptuous of Congress and being held in contempt by most democrats ... well all democrats, actually, not including Republicans masquerading as democrats, he is not actually "in contempt of Congress" until the Committee, or the body acting as a committee of the whole, finds him in contempt.

When practicing law there were many times that is held the Court in contempt, but that didn't make me "in contempt of court" ... but then there were those times too.

:dem:

They can't get a warrant without at least some Republicans going along with it.