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Harry Hope
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White House Defies Congressional Inquiry, Renews Executive Privilege
Claim
Monday, July 09, 2007
E-MAIL STORY RESPOND TO EDITOR PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION
AP
July 8: President Bush and first lady Laura Bush arrive at the White
House from Camp David, Md.
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Monday rejected subpoenas for two
former White House aides and invoked executive privilege, increasing
the likelihood of a constitutional showdown.
The White House also refused to turn over documents to the
congressional investigation into the firings of several U.S. attorneys
last year. Officials said the president would make available his aides
to testify in private, off-the-record meetings with committee members
and their staffs.
"The president feels compelled to assert executive privilege with
respect to the testimony sought from Sara M. Taylor and Harriet E.
Miers," White House counsel Fred Fielding wrote in a letter to the
chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary committees.
"The assertion of executive privilege here is intended to protect a
fundamental interest of the presidency: the necessity that a president
receive candid advice from his advisers and that those advisers be
able to communicate freely and openly with the president, with each
other and with others inside and outside the executive branch,"
Fielding wrote.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy was expected to
respond to the invocation in an afternoon speech on the Senate floor.
Even before the White House action, he quickly announced his
displeasure with the latest message from the White House.
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He seems to know what he is doing, and the serge is working now.
The Democrats are confused kooks.
And it seems that Hillary and Obama supreme jokes.
Harry
Claim
Monday, July 09, 2007
E-MAIL STORY RESPOND TO EDITOR PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION
AP
July 8: President Bush and first lady Laura Bush arrive at the White
House from Camp David, Md.
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Monday rejected subpoenas for two
former White House aides and invoked executive privilege, increasing
the likelihood of a constitutional showdown.
The White House also refused to turn over documents to the
congressional investigation into the firings of several U.S. attorneys
last year. Officials said the president would make available his aides
to testify in private, off-the-record meetings with committee members
and their staffs.
"The president feels compelled to assert executive privilege with
respect to the testimony sought from Sara M. Taylor and Harriet E.
Miers," White House counsel Fred Fielding wrote in a letter to the
chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary committees.
"The assertion of executive privilege here is intended to protect a
fundamental interest of the presidency: the necessity that a president
receive candid advice from his advisers and that those advisers be
able to communicate freely and openly with the president, with each
other and with others inside and outside the executive branch,"
Fielding wrote.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy was expected to
respond to the invocation in an afternoon speech on the Senate floor.
Even before the White House action, he quickly announced his
displeasure with the latest message from the White House.
...................................................................
He seems to know what he is doing, and the serge is working now.
The Democrats are confused kooks.
And it seems that Hillary and Obama supreme jokes.
Harry
