Posted on 09/05/2001 1:23:51 PM PDT by jern
And that's a birdie.
(1) It's time to move on ...
(2) He's setting the precedent for his successor ....
(3) Clinton has some major big time dirt on GW or Poppy.
IMHO, its door number 3!!!!
Clinton and Bush are not hand in glove.
Honest.
By your reasoning, Bush can never use executive privilege. Carville thanks you.
The claim, if made, would be Bush's first known use of executive privilege, ....
'To invoke' as the author's title says and 'is prepared to invoke' as the article says are two different things... so we will see. Write the article to maximize the spin factor against the President, or was this just a "Parody"?.. LOL
Well, then, I guess that settles it.
Ronald Reagan invoked executive privilege several times. Criminal Reagan.
(Think Archie and Meathead and the refrigerator repairman here.)
No, incorrect. Pat, you free to move on but I won't be.
I assume we are talking about the Ray office ending and the full report not yet out and Burton is mad about the indictments not being made and wants to paw through raw information to have his just revenge. Ah, too easy...Burton will never get redress for the Clinton smears and belittlement...It was too massive and Big Lies always work in the Media.
A quotation comes to mind (doesn't it always in my posts?) so let's have a little Robert Bolt playwrite view of Thomas More sort of on target:
More: And go he should, if he were the Devil himself, until he broke the law!Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?
This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down (and you're just the man to do it!), do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
No, incorrect. Pat, you free to move on but I won't be.
*** JUDICIAL WATCH SAYS THEY WILL PURSUE THE LORAL SHAREHOLDERS CASE ***
The AG's office controls the Justice Department, the FBI, the ATF and now FEMA. A rogue AG could essentially bring this nation down. Only 33% of Congress the likes of Hillary, Waxman, Jackson-Lee, Kennedy and other miscreants could block an impeachment remedy.
If we're going to hold the AG's documents untouchable, then we're also going to hold every other cabinet offical's papers untouchable.
These are not mere political challenges to Bush's method of conducting his official business. We are talking about a likely criminal conspiracy, not even involving Bush, but rather Clinton and his Justice Department? You really see this as protected by the Separtations of Powers doctrine? Organized crime, treason, obstruction of justice, witness intimidation, destruction of evidence, collusion, racketeering and other charges were not only possible but likely. Yet you feel that research into these charges should be blocked to protect Executive Privilege and the Separations of Powers?
If you are correct the Justice Department is free to do anything they could possibly think of with impugnity.
Imagine a Justice Department which manufactured false charges against enemies of the Executive Branch. Then imagine them executing all sorts of judicial proceedings against them, with false evidence under the cover of legal proceedings. Imagine a court with no investigative aparatus to root out these criminal acts.
Is this the power you seek to give Bush or the next Clinton? If so, count me out. I do believe in the concept of separation of powers as long as it pertains to legitmate areas.
No - - INCORRECT. Pat, you feel free to move on, BUT I WON'T BE.
TERRY MCAULIFFE - DNC CHAIRMAN - WAS KEY DEFENDENT IN LORAL SHAREHOLDERS CASE ie. CHINAGATE- - #12
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