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Leahy to Bush: Expect more scrutiny
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published December 14, 2006
WASHINGTON - President Bush should expect tougher oversight of the war on terrorism and a closer look at his administration's policies on torture and other human rights issues, the incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said his panel also will look at recommendations by the Iraq Study Group that law enforcement officials from the FBI and other offices in the Justice Department be sent to Iraq to boost a police force riddled with corruption. Leahy said he also plans to create a subcommittee focused on legislation on such issues as torture and detainee treatment. Leahy said he wants to examine the administration's warrantless wiretapping program and its legal and physical treatment of detainees, saying that White House policy has violated Americans' civil rights and the human rights of war prisoners. Leahy also criticized Bush's habit of issuing so-called signing statements, in which the president has laid out which parts of laws he has just signed that he will follow and which he won't.
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