Executive Privilege

Source: www.latimes.com --- 15 days ago
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Source: www.iht.com --- 12 days ago
Barack Obama and John McCain, two senators who want to become president, are trying not to pick sides in the current president's court fight with Congress over Executive Privilege. ...

Source: www.iht.com --- 15 days ago
President Bush asserted Executive Privilege Friday to withhold documents from a congressional investigation into whether he pressured the Environmental Protection Agency to weaken decisions on smog and greenhouse gases. ...

Source: www.foxnews.com --- 16 days ago
President Bush asserted Executive Privilege Friday to withhold documents from a congressional investigation into whether he pressured EPA to weaken decisions on smog and greenhouse gases. ...

Source: elections.foxnews.com --- 12 days ago
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama and John McCain, two senators who want to become president, are trying not to pick sides in the White House’s court fight with Congress over Executive Privilege. That’s ironic, since they have the most to gain — or lose — depending on the outcome of a hearing held Monday in U.S. District [...] ...

Source: www.slate.com --- 22 days ago
In a new Slate Jurisprudence essay , former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias argues that the White House's invocation of the Executive Privilege to protect certain communications among the President's advisors.  Iglesias argues that the Bush Administration has stretched Privilege beyond the limits of the law.  His argument, however, is squarely at odds with the case law on the point. Iglesias specifically criticizes a June 2007 letter [pdf] from the White House to Senator Leahy and Congressman Conyers, chairmen of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.  In that letter, the White House refused to produce documents of Harriet Miers, former Counsel to the President, and Sara Taylor, former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Political Affairs, or to allow them to testify.  Instead, the White House invoked Executive Privilege: [T]he President was not willing to provide your Committees with documents revealing internal White House communications or to accede to your desire for senior advisors to testify at public hearings. ... [F]or the President to perform his constitutional duties, it is imperative that he receive candid and unfettered advice and that free and open discussions and deliberations  occur among his advisors and between those advisors and others within and outside the Executive Branch. Citing the seminal Supreme Court decision on the subject, U.S. v. Nixon , Iglesias responds ... So now, the qualified privi ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 34 days ago
In 2001, three economists won the Nobel Prize in Economics for a simple yet powerful insight: When people bring different information to the table, the imbalances in their knowledge create frictions, whether in deal-making or personal relationships. Today, one such informational asymmetry -- where one party knowing a lot more than the other -- is taking on constitutional dimensions, and the Administration's efforts to use that asymmetry to its advantage threatens the integrity of the federal government, now and in the future. Among the three branches of government, it is today the Executive that generates the lion's share of information and also poses the largest risk to individual liberties. In a dangerous world, it is the Executive that is assigned the tools to respond to that danger -- be it public corruption, reliance on foreign oil, or terrorism. Hence, it is also the branch that poses the greatest risk to our own liberties and the branch in greatest need of oversight. Because presidential elections every four years are simply not fine-grained enough to pick out and condemn abuses and criminality, there is a need for more routine accountability devices. But this particular Administration is now using "Executive Privilege" in novel ways that block the routine forms of accountability from moving forward. The result is an unhealthy stalemate that is sapping the incentive of Executive branch officials to follow the law. . Since W ...

Source: thinkprogress.org --- 25 days ago
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has agreed to testify, under oath, to the House Judiciary Committee on June 20. Yesterday at a book reading in Washington, DC, McClellan said that he expects the White House to think about invoking Executive Privilege before he goes before Congress: When asked if his testimony next week [...] ...

Source: thinkprogress.org --- 16 days ago
As the Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson reports, President Bush today exerted Executive Privilege to block the House Oversight Committee’s subpoenas for EPA documents on global warming, heading off a scheduled contempt vote for EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and White House Office of Management and Budget regulatory administrator Susan Dudley. Committee chairman Henry Waxman’s (D-CA) blistering [...] ...

Source: www.voanews.com --- 14 days ago
White House refusing to release documents involving president's role in environmental policy ...

Source: thinkprogress.org --- 16 days ago
With a contempt of Congress vote looming by Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-CA) House Oversight Committee, President Bush asserted Executive Privilege this morning to block the committee’s subpoenas for documents relating to the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to reject California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to override scientific recommendations on ozone standards. Waxman’s committee had [...] ...

Source: www.signonsandiego.com --- 23 days ago
If Darko Tresnjak were still directing at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, he might have to consider renaming his upcoming Shakespeare production “All's Well That Ends WeeeEEE ...!” ...

Source: www.post-gazette.com --- 28 days ago
Could the president of the United States be a serial killer? In this day and age, presidents have been accused of worse things. ... ...

Source: www.crooksandliars.com --- 12 days ago
Think Progress: With a contempt of Congress vote looming by Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-CA) House Oversight Committee, President Bush asserted Executive Privilege this morning to block the committee’s subpoenas for documents relating to the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to reject California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to override scientific recommendations on ozone standards. Waxman’s [...] ...

Source: www.stltoday.com --- 16 days ago
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Source: www.oversight.house.gov --- 16 days ago
President Bush has asserted Executive Privilege over thousands of pages of documents that would show whether the President and his staff complied with the Clean Air Act in overruling EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson on important environmental decisions. ...

Source: deseretnews.com --- 15 days ago
Escalating a fight with Democrats on Capitol Hill, the White House on Friday invoked Executive Privilege in refusing to turn over documents to a congressional committee investigating the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to deny California permission to implement its own vehicle emission standards. ...