Let me get this straight. They vote to approve a program they know nothing about, and then they subpoena information about it? Is that right?

Though Congress is on vacation, majority Democrats are keeping alive various fights with the White House with one common thread: Congress’ access to administration documents and testimony to which President Bush has claimed executive privilege.

Smack in the middle of the August break, the White House faces a new deadline for producing subpoenaed information about the legal justification for the president’s secretive eavesdropping program.

And aides in both chambers are considering a selection of ways to deal with Bush’s refusal to let current and former advisers testify publicly about their roles in the firings of federal prosecutors. Contempt proceedings could begin in the House as early as September.

Still other officials are considering ways to, in the words of one Republican, “end the tenure of Attorney General Gonzales.” That would be Alberto Gonzales, longtime presidential friend and embattled head of the Justice Department whose congressional testimony has drawn quiet, if any, defense from White House allies on Capitol Hill.

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