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Justice Official: Details of Surveillance Program Tightly Guarded

Dan Eggen writes in The Washington Post:

Only four top officials at the Justice Department were given access to details about a warrantless surveillance program that Justice lawyers ultimately determined was partially illegal, a former department lawyer testified today.

Jack L. Goldsmith, former head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that access to the surveillance program was so tightly controlled that even the attorney general did not know all the details.

Goldsmith also testified that the White House initially resisted allowing then-Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey to be briefed on the program at a time when the Justice Department was undertaking a legal review of the effort.

posted by Fergie @ 10/02/2007 03:02:00 PM