U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa) Holds a Hearing On Possible Subpoena for Telephone Company Executives for Turning Over Records to the National Security Agency

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U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa) Holds a Hearing On Possible Subpoena for Telephone Company Executives for Turning Over Records to the National Security Agency

U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HOLDS A HEARING ON POSSIBLE SUBPOENA FOR TELEPHONE COMPANY EXECUTIVES CONCERNING NSA DATABASE

JUNE 6, 2006

SPEAKERS: U.S. SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER (R-PA) CHAIRMAN U.S. SENATOR ORRIN G. HATCH (R-UT) U.S. SENATOR CHARLES E. GRASSLEY (R-IA) U.S. SENATOR JON KYL (R-AZ) U.S. SENATOR MIKE DEWINE (R-OH) U.S. SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS (R-AL) U.S. SENATOR LINDSEY O. GRAHAM (R-SC) U.S. SENATOR JOHN CORNYN (R-TX) U.S. SENATOR SAM BROWNBACK (R-KS) U.S. SENATOR TOM COBURN (R-OK)

U.S. SENATOR PATRICK J. LEAHY (D-VT) RANKING MEMBER U.S. SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY (D-MA) U.S. SENATOR JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. (D-DE) U.S. SENATOR HERBERT KOHL (D-WI) U.S. SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D-CA) U.S. SENATOR RUSSELL D. FEINGOLD (D-WI) U.S. SENATOR CHARLES E. SCHUMER (D-NY) U.S. SENATOR RICHARD J. DURBIN (D-IL)

[*] SPECTER: We've waited 17 minutes for our colleagues to arrive. And I want to begin this executive session on the issue of a hearing from the telephone companies.

Our discussions with them have resulted in their willingness to come into a closed session without the necessity to issue any subpoenas.

We are advised, informally, that they will be precluded from providing any information because of the classified information.

I find that insufficient and unacceptable and not a basis to decline to call them in. But after extensive discussions, principally with Senator Hatch, who's been in touch wi...

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