Word: subpoenaing
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...showdown. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has ordered two reporters, including TIME White House correspondent Matthew Cooper, to tell a grand jury who might have disclosed to them the identity of a covert CIA officer during a tangled political dustup in the summer of 2003. TIME sought to quash the subpoena through most of 2004, but last week a federal appeals court ruled that Cooper and Judith Miller of the New York Times must testify or face civil contempt penalties, which usually means jail. Both TIME and the New York Times will appeal the ruling, going...
Since then judges have argued that Republican politicians--always eager to look tough on crime--have been tightening guidelines and further chipping away at their prized independence. House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Sensenbrenner once threatened to subpoena a federal district judge's records to see whether he had been too lenient, and a year later, Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered federal prosecutors to report judges who were similarly showing too much forgiveness...
Graner's attorney has said his client and the other MPs are "scapegoats." But the presiding judge has refused defense attempts to subpoena higher-ups like Donald Rumsfeld. The Pentagon, the FBI and the CIA are still investigating prisoner mistreatment in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guant??namo Bay, but no high-ranking official has faced charges so far. Some have even been promoted. --By Mitch Frank
...Democrats, would usurp G.O.P.-led Senate committees by convening oversight hearings on issues--such as flawed prewar intelligence on Iraq--that Democrats feel have not been sufficiently probed. The policy committee normally promotes party positions on issues and has the statutory authority to hold hearings, but it can't subpoena witnesses. Frist spokesman Bob Stevenson says, "This is a political stunt, nothing more, nothing less...
Indeed, from the PATRIOT Act on, the Bush Administration has failed to win the trust of those concerned with the civil liberties of students. Earlier this year, federal authorities in Iowa served a subpoena ordering Drake University to turn over the records of student peace activists. Just last month, the FBI conducted raids on student dorms at North Carolina State University in the wake of a non-student demonstration in another part of town. And immigrant students have been subjected to especially intense surveillance under the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS...