After over a year of demands, four months of subpoenas and an immeasurable amount of acrimony and mutual distrust, the White House has finally agreed to let Senators Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) — and possibly even the whole Senate Judiciary Committee — review the legal basis for the warrantless surveillance program. Apparently politics can compel what subpoenas can’t. Congressional Quarterly:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179516