Word: subpoena
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Rather than agree to a meaningless level of access to the PDBs, the 9/11 commission should demand full disclosure from the White House. If the administration refuses to be more forthcoming, the panel should make use of its subpoena powers, which it has already deployed to procure important documents from the Federal Aviation Administration and the Pentagon. The security of high-level intelligence is imperative, but that security is more than sufficiently guaranteed within the auspices of the independent investigative commission. Our leaders must not forget that it is the physical security of the United States that is paramount...
...reporters who know what happened are not likely to cooperate. Journalists are loath to break a promise of confidentiality to their sources. Moreover, under Justice Department rules, investigators may subpoena, wiretap or seize the records of journalists only with the Attorney General's approval and only after other investigative means have been exhausted. That's not to say it doesn't occasionally happen. In 2001 the Justice Department subpoenaed AP reporter John Solomon's home-telephone records without his knowledge in an effort to glean his sources in a case involving former Senator Robert Torricelli. Other attempts to discover journalists...
...account of the beating was substantiated by the testimony of several other BPD officers—speaking under a prosecution subpoena and immunity agreements—who witnessed the assault in part...
MARVIN GAYE Few pre-1975 songs made the subpoena hit list--with the notable exception of Gaye's Let's Get It On [TWO AND HALF HANDCUFFS...
...would assume we would look at any subpoena on its own merits,” said Assistant Provost for Information Technology Daniel D. Moriarty. “The legal advice we’re getting is that not complying with a subpoena would be really inconsistent with the University’s response to subpoenas in general...