[Lanman]

``While I have a great deal of respect for the attorney general, he has announced a new policy that broadens executive privilege,'' Burton said. ``If this unprecedented policy is permitted to stand, Congress will not be able to exercise meaningful oversight of the executive branch.''

That says it all.

[anniegetyourgun]

Most recently in the 1990s such documents were turned over to the Whitewater, fund-raising, pardons and impeachment investigations.

Not without massive redaction, stonewalling, and in some cases - not at all.

[prognostigaator]

"Podesta said. ``It appears to me that every administration has to learn that the hard way.''

Problem is, Mr. Podesta, you made it too easy for Bill Clinton.

[mattflogel.com]

Now comes all of the Bush apologists who have been apologizing about stem cells and increased education wasting(funding) with no parental choice. I can hear the same group again making excuses.

[Aerial]

The claim would be the latest in a string of efforts by the new administration to restrain the flow of information to Congress about private deliberations.
Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) has rebuffed requests by the General Accounting Office (news - web sites) and a Democratic congressman to divulge information about people he met with and how he helped develop Bush's energy policy.

If this was still Clinton doing this Bush lovers would be outraged.

Business as usual.

[Landru]

"By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is prepared to invoke executive privilege if Congress demands to see documents about prosecutors' decisions in three Clinton-era cases, administration officials said Wednesday." badabadabada...

So you wanna mess with the snake pit vipers known as the Associated Press, eh?
Please...do make *note* of who the Associated Press writer works for?

Yea.
~Sweet, huh?

[GretchenEE]

bttt

[GretchenEE]

bump

[mancini]

fyi

[HalfIrish]

bump bump bump bump WHAT'S UP HERE? bump bump bump bump

[Don Myers]

So now the Bush Administration is openly providing cover for the Clinton Administration. Can anyone honestly say these two are not hand in glove?

[onedoug]

Might Bush be reluctant to have fingered Clinton as the greatest traitor in American history? Maybe a nod to "bipartisanship"?

[KC Burke]

I think Solomon, who I follow and enjoy, has fallen down in his article in giving the particulars here. Instead he has tried to make the story sell better by making its focus the tittilating study of "executive privelige". I have to assume what cases are being talked about...i.e., Solomon didn't do his job

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!

[Demidog]

All Hail Clinton! And All Hail his successor who is learning his lessons well! Bushtigula rules supreme! Screw the little people and the public!

[Anonymous2]

so the 'mystery' continues (shoot, burn and bulldoze). just 'trust' your government, they caaaare about you.

[jwh_Denver]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

To h with this compassionate conservatism clap. SOS

[Hillary 666]

The Clintons must have a picture of GW Bush molesting a sheep. That's the only explanation for Bush slow-rolling and stonewalling this.

[Cato]

President Bush is prepared to invoke executive privilege
if Congress demands to see documents about prosecutors' decisions in three "Clinton-era cases",

Meet the New Boss.

Same as the Old Boss.

SOS for four more years,
CATO

[rightwing2]

What the heck does Bush think he stands to gain from covering Clinton's butte?? This is an outrage. We need to support the more conservative GOP Congress that is trying to uncover the truth about Clinton's crimes against the Constitution on this one.

[Salvation]

BTTT for new developments.