Executive Priviledge

Not unexpected, but some were holding out hope for real cooperation this time.

Take Them To Court Now

Gee, they must be hiding something. Bush, as expected, invoked executive privilege this morning to prevent former White House aide and Rove assistant Sara Taylor and former White House counsel Harriet Miers from testifying to Congress on their role in the sacking of federal prosecutors. The Bush White House, under former Nixon attorney Fred Fielding counsel is fully in bunker mode now, and the sooner the Democrats [...]

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Bush Invokes Executive Privilege

Way to start the week with a bang: President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from two former aides about the firings of federal prosecutors. The White House, however, did offer again to make former counsel Harriet Miers and one-time political director Sara Taylor available for private, off-the-record interviews. Great. That [...]

Bush says he won't let former staff testify about whether he broke the law

Bush to Congress: You’ll get nothing and you’ll like it

Well, I can’t imagine anyone is surprised by this stonewalling. President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from two former aides in connection with the firings of federal prosecutors. The White House, however, did offer again to make former counsel Harriet Miers and one-time political director Sara Taylor available for private, [...]

It’s A Privilege…

It seems that President Bush has, indeed, invoked “executive privilege” (H/T to twolf1 for the link) to attempt to prevent testimony from former aides regarding the potential WH employee misconduct in politicization worries about the Department of Justice. Reader WB sent me a link this morning to a poignant opinion piece in the Denver Post written [...]

Contempt of Congress? Bush blocks key testimony, Refuses to even explain why

...Worthless. How absolutely worthless. They invoke executive privilage for two people who no longer even work at the White House (as sketchy legally as you can get), and then they refuse to explain why, or on what legal basis they are invoking executive privilage. How utterly absurd. House Judiciary Commitee Chair John Conyers said [...]

And, finally, Bush Channels Nixon

There.  You get the picture.

Tags: Executive Privilege, Bush Administration, Harriet Miers, Sara Taylor

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