June 07, 2007

Official: Cheney Urged Secret Spy Program Despite Justice Dept. Concerns

Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday. The meeting came one day before White House officials tried to get approval for the same program from then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, who lay recovering from surgery in a hospital, according to former deputy attorney general James B. Comey.

Official: Cheney Urged Wiretaps, Washington Post, June 7, 2007.