The Justice Department has asked to review the transcripts of secret Congressional hearings on the Sept. 11 terror attacks before they are handed over to a new federal commission that is also investigating the attacks, panel officials said today. The commission’s executive director, Philip Zelikow, said the Justice Department had expressed concern that material in the transcripts might “raise an issue of presidential executive privilege” and needed to be reviewed before it was shared among commission members. Mr. Zelikow said that he had no reason to believe that any material in the transcripts might raise such concerns, and that he had no indication that the Bush administration planned to try to block or limit the commission’s access to the transcripts, which record the testimony and questioning of a variety of witnesses with access to classified intelligence information. Full Story
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