Black said investigators should have provided notice they were going to seize the records.
Attorney General Eric Holder said the move was necessary because the leak was "very, very serious," and confirmed that Deputy Attorney General James Cole had signed off on the decision to seize the records.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Daley, who was first elected in 1989 and will this winter become the city's longest-serving mayor (seizing the record held by his father, Richard J ., said his office had no comment on Mr. Emanuel's aspirations.
Thorpe nearly seized the record back in the second semifinal, recording a 1 45.37 that meant he would have to settle for Lane 5 instead of his customary Lane 4 in Monday's final.
It has also seized the records of one company that sells conversion kits by mail and is considering criminal charges.
They show that the government seized the records of only those players who tested positive for steroids.
Mr. Limbaugh's lawyers had said that seizing the records from doctors in Florida and California violated his privacy.
When the police seized the recording at the airport from Paul Pritchard, who was returning home to Victoria, British Columbia, they characterized it as an important piece of evidence.
In the Rosen case, as Ryan Lizza reported, Machen seized the records of more than thirty phone lines, at least five of which appear to have been at Fox News.
James Martz, an assistant state attorney for Palm Beach County, told the panel that his office had scrupulously followed state law when it seized the records, which were immediately sealed.
In the kind of enforcement action that is almost unheard of in aviation, federal agents seized the records of several of Alaska Airlines' MD-80's.
