Tweet
Specter tells Cheney to stop interfering
CAPITOL HILL A fellow Republican is calling on Vice President Cheney to butt out of a congressional investigation.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter is firing off a three-page letter to Cheney. At issue is the committee's review of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program. The letter asks Cheney to stop lobbying other committee Republicans to oppose subpoenas for phone company executives.
Specter is the most vocal member of the G-O-P to be against monitoring the calls and e-mails of Americans without a judge's warrant. The White House says the program requires that terrorism be suspected, and that one of the parties be overseas.
CAPITOL HILL A fellow Republican is calling on Vice President Cheney to butt out of a congressional investigation.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter is firing off a three-page letter to Cheney. At issue is the committee's review of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program. The letter asks Cheney to stop lobbying other committee Republicans to oppose subpoenas for phone company executives.
Specter is the most vocal member of the G-O-P to be against monitoring the calls and e-mails of Americans without a judge's warrant. The White House says the program requires that terrorism be suspected, and that one of the parties be overseas.
Comment