http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/10/chertoff.nomination.ap/index.html
At issue is a three-page, heavily edited e-mail, marked "Secret" and dated May 10, 2004, that was sent from FBI agents seeking guidance about questioning terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Chertoff, who left the Justice Department in 2003, told lawmakers during his February 2 confirmation hearing that he knew nothing about the memo, who might have written it, or precisely what it discussed. That prompted Levin and Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Connecticut, to ask the Justice Department for unedited copies of the e-mail.
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"It is such an extreme, such a radical, such a total unsustainable position by the Justice Department," Levin said. "To say that the Privacy Act denies Congress the right to government documents -- we're talking about government employees, government activity -- to black out their names you can't have any oversight."
A Justice Department spokesman did not have an immediate comment.