If this isn't intimidation, then I don't know what is

From the administration that currently has a Supremem Court case pending because it won't release records from Cheney's Energy Task Force and won't release documents to the 9/11 panel, comes a demand to hospitals to fork over private medical information about some patients who had abortions.

At stake are records documenting certain late-term abortions performed by doctors who have joined in a legal challenge of the disputed ban. President Bush signed the act into law last year.

Does it get any more blatant then this?