House Leaders Demand FBI Return Papers
 

Well, this should give everyone something to chew on. Let's hear the take from those here who don't seem to give a rat's ass that the current administration is running roughshod over the Constitution.

Oh, and this one crosses party lines...sounds like fun to me!



May 24, 9:05 PM (ET)

By LAURIE KELLMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) - In rare, election-year harmony, House Republican and Democratic leaders jointly demanded on Wednesday that the FBI return documents taken in a Capitol Hill raid that has quickly grown into a constitutional turf fight beyond party politics.

"The Justice Department must immediately return the papers it unconstitutionally seized," House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement.

After that, they said, Democratic Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana must cooperate with the Justice Department's bribery investigation against him.

The leaders also said the Justice Department should not look at the documents or give them to investigators in the Jefferson case.


The developments capped a day of escalating charges, demands and behind-the-scene talks between House leaders and the Justice Department that ended with no resolution, according to officials of both parties.

House officials were drafting a joint resolution frowning on the raid. And Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., announced a hearing next week titled, "Reckless Justice: Did the Saturday Night Raid of Congress Trample the Constitution?"


Anyone...anyone...Buehler?

They are united in all having something to hide.

But, I'm sure that the Republicans have nothing to hide. After all, they're all good conservatives, right?

They are all self-serving crooks. I'm becoming more and more convinced of this every day.

You could probably count all the 'good conservative' Republicans on one hand.

About damn time. ;)
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Edit: LOL...I like this line:

"The leaders also said the Justice Department should not look at the documents ..."

Rriigghhtt.

A bunch of fat shirts worried about potentially protecting their behinds in the future. I'm with Legion.

I've got to side with congress on this one. Searching his home and finding the money is one thing. Searching another branch of government's office is another. I guess in this world of GWB all laws and expectations of our founding fathers are just suggestions.

Yep, yet still head and shoulders more honorable than anything the Dems have to offer.

Interesting...some members of Congress are quietly saying that this fight could cause a public backlash against all of Congress:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060525/ap_on_go_co/raid_on_congress