TPMMuckraker Pat Leahy: April 2009
Pat Leahy
Leahy to Bybee: Why Not Give Us Your Side Of Torture Story?
Zachary Roth | April 29, 2009, 1:49PM
As the calls for his impeachment grow louder, Jay Bybee -- the Bush OLC lawyer who wrote one of the torture memos, and who is now a federal judge -- has been given the chance to share his side of the story.
The unlikely invitation comes from Pat Leahy, the chair of the Senate Judiciary committee. In a letter sent to Bybee today, Leahy invites him to testify before the committee about his role in writing the memos.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (9) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (9)Topics: George Bush, Jay Bybee, Justice Department, Pat Leahy, Senate Judiciary Committee, Torture
Barack Obama
Biden Mum On State Secrets Bill He Once Supported
Zachary Roth | April 14, 2009, 2:15PM
Et tu, Joe?
Last year, while trying to win the Democratic nomination for president, Joe Biden co-sponsored a bill to restrict the use of the "state secrets privilege" by the Department of Justice. But today, asked by the Huffington Post for Biden's current stance on the legislation, a spokesman for the vice president replied: "No comment on this from here." That "no comment" follows a similar tight-lipped stance from the White House itself.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (9) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (11)Topics: Arlen Specter, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Justice Department, Pat Leahy, State Secrets, Wiretapping
Barack Obama
White House Won't Say Whether It'll Back Effort To Roll Back State Secrets Privilege
Zachary Roth | April 13, 2009, 9:51AM
A good advance on the state secrets story, from Greg Sargent over at the Plum Line.
Greg reports that the White House declined to tell him whether it would support a Democratic effort to roll back the use of the state secrets privilege.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (7) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (4)Topics: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Justice Department, Pat Leahy, State Secrets
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