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Bush Blocked Internal Justice Probe of Wiretaps
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The president withheld security clearances from lawyers investigating those who approved and oversaw the NSA surveillance program.
By Richard B. Schmitt, Times Staff Writer
July 19, 2006
WASHINGTON — President Bush personally sidetracked an internal Justice Department probe into the warrantless domestic surveillance program earlier this year, even as other Justice officials were assigned to defend the program in court and investigate who may have leaked information about it to the news media, according to administration officials and documents released Tuesday.
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-legal19jul19,0,5316810.story
Bush Blocked Internal Justice Probe of Wiretaps
The president withheld security clearances from lawyers investigating those who approved and oversaw the NSA surveillance program.
By Richard B. Schmitt, Times Staff Writer
July 19, 2006
WASHINGTON — President Bush personally sidetracked an internal Justice Department probe into the warrantless domestic surveillance program earlier this year, even as other Justice officials were assigned to defend the program in court and investigate who may have leaked information about it to the news media, according to administration officials and documents released Tuesday.
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-legal19jul19,0,5316810.story
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