# Judge Orders White House to Cough Up Info

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-orders-white-house-to-cough-up-info/470754>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 2, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-orders-white-house-to-cough-up-info/470754 "2008-11-02T20:25:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-orders-white-house-to-cough-up-info/470754/1 "2008-11-02T20:25:01Z")

</div>

[Judge orders White House to turn over documents related to warrantless wiretaps.](http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4A11QJ20081102?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews)

> [@](#):
>
> The Bush administration must give to a federal court documents related to government wiretapping of domestic communications without a warrant after the September 11 attacks, according to a recent court order.
> 
> U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy signed the order on Friday requiring the U.S. Justice Department to provide the court for private review certain documents that were sought in lawsuits filed by the civil liberties groups.
> 
> Kennedy ordered the administration to provide the documents from the White House Office of Legal Counsel by November 17, and said he will review them in private to see if their release would endanger national security.

One small step. . .

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-orders-white-house-to-cough-up-info/470754/2 "2008-11-02T20:26:26Z")

</div>

I’ll bet you $100 they don’t do it.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-orders-white-house-to-cough-up-info/470754/3 "2008-11-02T20:28:48Z")

</div>

I’ll bet the next administration will.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-orders-white-house-to-cough-up-info/470754/4 "2008-11-02T20:31:32Z")

</div>

Note that the only reason to stall now is for political reasons. (As if that wasn’t the reason all along.)

The next Prez, regardless of who wins, is going to be far less secretive about such things. One way or another, come Feb. the judge is going to have them.