The Justice Department under new Attorney General Michael Mukasey is up to old its tricks. The Washington Post’s Carrie Johnson reports that justice has still yet to produce the key legal documents that underpinned its warrantless wiretapping program and the procedure for treating Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Pat Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Mukasey has been a “slight improvement” in producing documents compared with disgraced AG Alberto Gonzales. But Justice contends that they’re not uncooperative—they’re just understaffed and overwhelmed by all of Congress’s requests. Given that the federal bureaucracy is generally understaffed and overwhelmed there could be a little truth in that. Maybe. Read Johnson here. MB

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