Here is the latest sign that President George W. Bush is turning into Richard Nixon (via Chicago Tribune):

President Bush personally blocked an internal Justice Department investigation of the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program earlier this year, Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday.

The president didn't see the need for a Justice Department investigation (via CNN.com):

...at the White House, spokesman Tony Snow said the eavesdropping program is reviewed every 45 days by senior officials, including Gonzales. The president did not consider the Justice unit that functions as a legal ethics watchdog to be the "proper venue," Snow said.

"What he was saying is that in the case of a highly classified program, you need to keep the number of people exposed to it tight for reasons of national security, and that's what he did," Snow said.

One Congressman felt that President Bush was being inconsistent (via CNN.com):

An internal Justice Department memo in April, released Tuesday, said the administration had granted clearances to a "large team of attorneys and FBI agents" to investigate news leaks of the NSA program. Lawyers defending the department against lawsuits involving the program also had no trouble getting clearances, according to the memo.

"With so many other lawyers in the Department of Justice being granted clearance, it raises the obvious question of whether there was some interest on the part of the administration in not having that opinion given," Specter said.