Feds' wiretapping draws Senate subpoenas
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Blog: Angered by "stonewalling" over the once-secret NSA spy program, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy issues court orders to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other administration officials. But will he get what he wants?
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President George W. Bush headed toward a showdown with the Senate over his domestic spying program on Thursday after lawmakers approved subpoenas for documents the White House declared off-limits.
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Democrats issued their first major subpoenas yesterday since taking control of Congress, as a House subcommittee voted to compel testimony from four former U.S. attorneys who were part of a wave of firings by the Justice Department.
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Maximus Inc., which manages federal programs for state and local governments, disclosed yesterday that federal prosecutors have subpoenaed records connected to Medicaid reimbursement claims it prepared for the District.
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Two congressional committees are issuing subpoenas for testimony from former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor on their roles in the firings of eight federal prosecutors, according to two officials familiar with the investigation.
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The Senate on Tuesday approved new rules for government eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, giving the White House much of the latitude it wanted and granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that helped in the snooping after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry into accounting practices at Fannie Mae has escalated into a formal investigation, after commissioners voted to give the agency staff the power to subpoena documents and testimony from witnesses, according to sources briefed on the case.
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A federal grand jury investigating California GOP Rep. John Doolittle's ties to jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff has subpoenaed the House official responsible for maintaining lawmakers' old e-mails and other records.
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Five additional witnesses have been subpoenaed to appear Thursday before a Congressional hearing on the Hewlett-Packard spying case.
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Regulators investigating Fannie  Mae's accounting practices have sent subpoenas to the No. 1  U.S. mortgage finance company in connection with the probe, a  source familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee  are complaining that the National Security Agency has played politics in support of the secret program to intercept phone calls between alleged terrorists in the United States and abroad.
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The House ethics committee approved nearly four dozen subpoenas Thursday as its investigation of a page sex scandal sprang to life with a promise by its leaders to go "wherever the evidence leads us."
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The FBI once regularly (and surreptitiously) broke into Americans' homes, offices. Now a Senate bill seems to offer immunity to anyone who helps the government do just that.
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Justice Department investigators have sought to have senior federal prosecutors take polygraph examinations in an effort to determine who leaked the name of a confidential
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The FBI, working with an Alaska oil contractor, secretly taped telephone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) as part of a public corruption sting, according to people close to the investigation.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee sent subpoenas to the White House, vice presidentâs office and the Justice Department.
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A Senate chairman heading an investigation into the Bush administration's warrantless domestic spying program subpoenaed documents on Wednesday from the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney's office, the National Security Council and Justice Department.