Attorney General Refuses Lawmakers' Demands 
Saturday, December 15th, 2007

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I am definitely going to have to create a whole new section for "Political News That Quietly Happens On A Friday After 5 pm,"  because that is becoming a real trend with the Bush Administration lately to keep attention down, and I do not like it!

On that note, Attorney General Michael Mukasey sent letters to Congress yesterday (Friday), telling the House and Senate Judiciary committees that he refuses to provide the details of the CIA terrorist interrogation tapes.  Lawmakers demanded Mukasey divulge material key to the investigation as to why the tapes were destroyed by the CIA in 2005.

Mukasey said in the letters that he refuses because providing this information could be seen as bowing to "political influence."

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said in sa statement in response to the letters, "I will ask Attorney General Mukasey - in public and on the record - more about the department's knowledge of and role in the existence and destruction of these videotapes at the committe's next oversight hearing, which I intend to call early next year."

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