LAT on "contempt"

In an editorial today, the LAT argues that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are in contempt of Congress for failing to produce "operational details" of the NSA terrorist surveillance program. The Intelligence Committees of both houses of Congress know the operational details. The subpoenaed documents relate to the U.S. attorneys firings, of which the administration has already supplied 8,500. In addition, the president has offered to allow Karl Rove and other administration insiders to testify before the Judiciary Committees, just not in public and not under oath. But congressional Democrats don't want documents or testimony. They want an issue, and a show trial if they can get one.