[JURIST] A spokesman for US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) reacted coolly [press statement] Friday to a White House bid to extend until after Labor Day the deadline for compliance with committee subpoenas [JURIST report; subpoena packets, PDF] for materials relating to the Bush administration's proffered legal justification for refusing to comply with earlier Congressional calls for documents on the warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. The spokesman said:

These are materials the Committee has been seeking for two years. The subpoenas have been outstanding for two months. The Committee has already extended the initial deadline. In requesting that last extension, the White House counsel suggested that the Administration would be ready to respond by August 1. The new deadline is three weeks past the time the White House Counsel had estimated was needed. The Committee looks forward to the Administration complying with the subpoenas