[Oldeconomybuyer]

Why?...

[ChaseR]

Why?"

Top of the List = CHINAGATE

[Oldeconomybuyer]

(12-13) 07:01 PST (AP) -- "It is my decision that you should not release these documents or otherwise make them available to the committee," Bush wrote in the memo obtained by AP. "I have decided to assert executive privilege with respect to the documents."

Bush wrote that the "disclosure to Congress of confidential advice to the attorney general regarding the appointment of a special counsel and confidential recommendations to Department of Justice officials regarding whether to bring criminal charges would inhibit the candor necessary to the effectiveness of the deliberative process by which the department makes prosecutorial decisions."

The decision immediately affects a subpoena from the House Government Reform Committee for documents related to 1960s murders in Boston. More importantly, it sets a new policy in the works for months in which the administration will resist lawmakers' requests to view prosecutorial decision-making documents that have been routinely turned over to Congress in years past.

[horsewhispersc]

He's hiding sumptin methinks! I wanna know!

[mancini]

Gee, this must be real important for him to address it while there are so many other pressing matters to attend to. Don't you think?

[Alberta's Child]

While any attempt by a government official to hide evidence from the public is not good, please keep in mind that when Congress subpoenas these documents they do not have to release them to the public themselves.

Ask yourself if someone like Maxine Waters should have any access to privileged information under any circumstances.

[1234]

GO DAN GO!!!!!!!!!!

[Elle Bee]

DOJ Under Janet Ashcroft - Has Anything Changed?

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[MeekOneGOP]

Why?...

I'd love to know the answer to that myself.

Thanks for the post, OEB! Here's a related article - is this the SAME issue, OEB???? Notice that Ashcroft was to have answered this subpoena by 5 pm on Sept 11th, the day of the WTC hijackings!:

Breaking: US Congress Subpoena Orders Ashcroft To Release Clinton Evidence on Sept. 11, 2001

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[d4now]

Yes, why?

[UCANSEE2]

Here is the reason I believe Bush is doing this for the right reason and not to misuse it.

Aware the White House was considering such a new policy, members of Congress have raised concerns that it will hinder lawmakers from giving proper oversight to federal prosecutions, noting scandals in the past would never have been exposed if Congress had been kept from sensitive documents.

If members of Congress don't like it, that tell's you something. If having access to these documents allowed exposure of scandals by Congress, why do scandals have to be exposed by everyone else but Congress? And why when Congress has full access to these scandals, do they go stick their head in the sand ??????

I have a feeling the words "giving proper oversight" means deciding what they want to keep buried to cover their own asses!

[japaneseghost]

The reason: Dubbya wants to put a bug up Larry Klayman's a**.
Larry already had someone at the DOJ tell him that Dubbya would thwart his efforts.

Frankly, I think the Pres. is kicking himself by doing this.
Covering up the FBI's and Reno's mistakes is not the proper way to go,
and will have serious repercussions in the future, like when the world finds out who did FL800.

[Ramius]

Hmmm... I'm not sure what all would be meant by "prosecutorial decision-making documents", but it sounds like transcripts and minutes from meetings with legal counsel. So, then to be fair: does congress release information of this kind when THEY are getting confidential counsel? Methinks not.

[Triple]

Still contend the BoR only restricts congess?

Regards,

[ChaseR]

(For the record:

"Loral, Inc. Shareholders file federal lawsuit against Loral Inc, Bill & Hillary Clinton,
Al Gore and John Haung for Conspiracy!"

Crime/Corruption Front Page News
Source: Washington Weekly
Published: 8/1/99 Author: Marvin Lee
Posted on 08/01/1999 12:16:11 PDT by Thanatos

[Reg Niwthgir]

One may agree or disagree with Bush's decision, but there is a qualitative difference between invoking executive privilege in a case where the President has been accused of malfeasance, and invoking it in cases not involving the President personally. The attempt to equate this with the actions of Nixon or Clinton is a smear.

[VRWC_minion]

Translation=Bush decides to keep the FBI files or his own potential use. (This means you too Trent Lott)

[pollwatcher]

W. didn't play the revenge game after the election mess, the office vandalism, etc.. The guy has more class and is forward thinking. He's serving notice that if the demoCrits and their allies want to continue playing smear games, he is holding all the cards.

[NC_Libertarian]

The Bush administration is takeing advantage of the war. Especially Ashcroft. Disgusting.

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

There is no justice in America.

[wwjdn]

Just another shot at destroying the Constitution and our freedoms we fought so very hard to keep. Now with the swish of a pen they are all going away.

THANK-YOU PRESIDENT BUSH, WE DIDN'T NEED THAT OLD CONSTITUTION ANYWAY