“The Bush administration,” says TPM Muckraker, “may have broken over two dozen federal laws and regulations — some of them multiple times — according to an unreleased report from the House Judiciary Committee Democrats.”
Reportedly, the list includes laws against making false statements to Congress; laws and international treaties prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; laws concerning retaliating against witnesses and other government employees; Executive Orders concerning leaking and other misuse of intelligence; regulations and ethical requirements governing conflicts of interest; the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; communications privacy laws; the National Security Act; and the Fourth Amendment.
TPM Muckraker says the report is scheduled for release sometime next week and is “several hundred pages long, with over a thousand footnotes.”
Addendum: Talking Points Memo has the report in advance, although not in easily-downloadable pdf it seems.
