House rejects request for Cunningham papers | The San Diego Union-Tribune

House rejects request for Cunningham papers | The San Diego Union-Tribune: "May 16, 2006

WASHINGTON – Justice Department investigators and lawyers for the House of Representatives are wrangling over a request by the department for congressional documents related to its expanding inquiry into the bribery scheme that involved former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a Republican congressional official said yesterday.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego has asked for copies of “tens of thousands” of documents from the House Appropriations, Intelligence, and Armed Services Committees, the official said, as part of its inquiry into whether Cunningham illegally influenced the process the committees use to designate money for military projects.

But lawyers for the Republican-controlled House rebuffed the request as unreasonably broad, the official said, and asked the U.S. Attorney's Office for a shorter list."