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To: 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.

3 posted on 12/13/2001 6:04:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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The decision immediately affects a subpoena from the House Government Reform Committee for documents related to 1960s murders in Boston.

They're covering each others' tracks.

8 posted on 12/13/2001 6:09:32 AM PST by Fred Mertz
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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."

IOW, "We don't want you to know that we are not prosecuting certain crimes for the reason that half the current and past administration would be implicated. Oh, and laws apply to the peasants, not us."

14 posted on 12/13/2001 6:13:45 AM PST by FreeTally
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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"...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.
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There hasn't been any documents "routinely" turned over to Congress.
Not in any recent years.

96 posted on 12/13/2001 7:30:38 AM PST by exodus
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