Nonetheless, in the nine hundred thousand documents that were subpoenaed from Abacus, there was no explicit communication from any senior management condoning any of the activities cited in the indictment.
A memo written by Republicans, citing e-mail and internal Fed documents that were subpoenaed from the central bank, is building a case that Mr. Bernanke was a Machiavellian autocrat who forced Bank of America to go through with a disastrous merger that it no longer wanted to complete.
Sixteen of the 55 paintings were located, and the majority of these had to be subpoenaed from their owners (rather than be offered willingly) to be used as evidence, according to Peter Youngblood, an assistant U.S. attorney who was involved in the case.
That travel helped lead to an investigation into Mr. Abbruzzese and Mr. Bruno by the former State Lobbying Commission, records from which were subpoenaed by federal prosecutors last year.
In addition, a business run by Mr. Hevesi's son, Daniel Hevesi, has been subpoenaed by investigators from the attorney general's office.
Additionally, were fund-raisers organized or arranged by Zoellick and/or family members that would have brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars more? Shouldn't a Chairman or Ranking Member with such close links with an individual to be subpoenaed recuse themselves from any such role?
One Senate rule bars witnesses from being subpoenaed if federal prosecutors believe it might compromise their case, a fact Mr. Blagojevich complained bitterly about to reporters on Friday.
The Hague tribunals, created by the United Nations Security Council to handle war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda, did give United Nations peacekeepers and International Red Cross workers considerable protection from being subpoenaed as witnesses, on the theory that they needed neutrality and independence to do their work and not become targets of retaliation.
Commentators such as Johnson point out that this action was illegal, and that in deferring the investigation to the ICAO, the Reagan administration effectively precluded any politically or militarily sensitive information from being subpoenaed that might have embarrassed the administration or contradicted its version of events.
Query data from all four of the big search companies — Yahoo, Google, MSN from Microsoft and AOL — was subpoenaed by the Justice Department last year, as part of the agency's efforts to enforce an online child pornography law.
Reluctant ones will be subpoenaed.
