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Adam schiff take of. >> its a legal fight and he needs a bigger boat. someone added up all the investigations and came up with the number 17. i only had eight. so theyre ones that havent risen to the level where we talk about them every day. but some of the lawyers cant even be vetted and some of the lawyers he didnt get, like ted olson, robert bennet, brandon sullivan who have been through this kind of thing before said no to him. so while these may be some fine lawyers that are coming in, they...

Ordered his agents to prevent any attempts to remove comey from ashcrofts hospital room. when gonzalez and card arrived and urged ashcroft to sign off on the wiretapping program, the incapacitated attorney general made it clear in no uncertain terms that he was deferring to comeys judgment. the white house ultimately renewed warrantless program without doj approval prompting ashcroft, mueller and comey to threaten to resign en masse. the trio actually only relented when president bush agreed to ...

Is he already out of the country. this is really a standard practice, there is no specific secrecy attached to it. >> shepard: all right, catherine herridge in washington with an update for us. thank you. >> you are welcome. >> shepard: former justice department official who once stood up to the white house for surveillance is chosen by obama to be the next fbi director. job and family services comby was the fbi director under former george w. bush. praised for challenging the warrantless wireta...

The 94-year-old suspect and his family are saying now. a new miss usa has been crowned. the beauty who took that crown. welcome back to "early start" im john berman. >> im christine romans. new allegations of the man who leak sod many details of the wiretapping program. during the 2009 g-20 summit in london, the british and u.s. government were monitoring details. jessica is in ireland where the latest accusations, i imagine, have to be causing quite a stir, jessica? >> reporter: hi, john, g...

It sends? this in many ways is unprecedented territory. >> it is certainly very rare. to bring a case like this. lots of leak investigations are launched all the time. have been for quite some time, but it a very, very rare thing for them to actually find a leaker and charge the person as they did yesterday with mr. drake for disclosing classified information. now, actually, the stories in question, as we reported yesterday, these were stories by gorman, formerly of the "baltimore sun" now of th...

Charity and two american lawyers without a search warrant. the lawsuit was the last active case pending that challenged the so-called wiretapping program that ended back in 2007. it involved a conversation between a foundation member and the two lawyers about a recent treasury department declaration that the group supported terrorism. legal experts say the judges ruling focused narrowly on this specific case, touching vaguely on the larger question of the programs legality. that didnt top defens...

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