The leaked NSA Inspector General report detailing the history of the domestic spying program reveals, "At a 8 December 2003 meeting with the Department of Justic Associate Deputy Attorney General to discuss collection of metadata and an upcoming NSA Office of the Inspector General compliance audit, NSA's Inspector General and Deputy General Counsel request to see the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel legal opinion. The Counsel to the Vice President, who unexpectedly attended the meeting, denied the request and said that any request to see the opinion had to come directly from General Hayden"