WSJ: White House Asks Judiciary Panel For Extension to Answer Subpoenas

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney's office acknowledged it has documents that "may be responsive" to an investigation into a secret eavesdropping program, although it indicated it would not turn over the papers without a fight.

Lawyers speaking on behalf of both President Bush and Mr. Cheney asked the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday for more time to respond to subpoenas involving a wiretapping program that Democrats in Congress have harshly questioned.

In a letter to committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, Mr. Cheney's counsel Shannen W. Coffin, reported that the vice president's office had identified more than 40 "Top Secret/Codeword Presidential Authorizations" and memorandums from the Justice Department that may respond to the subpoena. The documents listed in the letter are dated from Oct. 4, 2001 and December 2006.

"We continue our efforts to identify further documents that may be responsive to the subpoena and renew the request made in our letter of Aug. 10, 2007, for an extension of time," Mr. Coffin wrote.



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Please add your own verses: The 12 days of extensions

On the first day of extensions, my congress gave to me _____________