The classified notes focus on a March 2004 meeting with congressional leaders about a national security program that was about to expire. Efforts to renew the program sparked an intense Bush administration debate that played out at the hospital bedside of then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. The memo was prepared by Gonzales' legal team as a response to a report being finalized by the Justice Department's inspector general. |
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