WH claims executive privilege over RNC emails.
By on Apr 17th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
WH claims executive privilege over RNC emails.
In a letter to the RNC, Emmet Flood, a special counsel to President Bush, “today again raised the possibility of an executive-privilege claim on e-mails and other documents from private e-mail accounts used by senior White House officials” but controlled by the RNC. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) called the request “extreme and unnecessary” and said it was “a clear attempt, on the Administration’s part, to delay this process and keep the wheels of Justice turning slowly.”
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I think this was predicted by Briseadh na Faire.
April 17th, 2007 at 7:48 pmIf and when, and only then, the e-mails were from or to George W.Bush, can “the white house” claim executive privilege.
April 17th, 2007 at 7:49 pmThis further “indicts” this white house now just like Monica Goodling claiming the Fifth Amendment. This is as good as admission of guilt.
April 17th, 2007 at 7:49 pmBTW, a case can now clearly be made against this Executive for intentional “obstruction of justice”.
April 17th, 2007 at 7:50 pmLet the impeachment proceedings begin!
April 17th, 2007 at 7:50 pmYeah. Bush think it’s the executive’s privilege to be above the law. No surprise there…
April 17th, 2007 at 7:51 pmCan we say…Guilty !!!!
April 17th, 2007 at 7:52 pmBy using external email systems for regular communications, I believe the White House lost any claim to Executive Privilege.
April 17th, 2007 at 7:53 pmI believe that “Executive Privilege” applies to advice generated by underlings that never reaches the President as well.
April 17th, 2007 at 7:54 pmAre you sure you are not jake/patrick?
April 17th, 2007 at 7:55 pmWe should not be surprised at the possessiveness and secrecy of Bush&Co. They have displayed their colors from day one, and when someone shows you who they are you should believe it.
April 17th, 2007 at 7:58 pmOf course they want to claim executive privilege over these emails.
Their rotten strategy, their propagandist lies, their dirty, underhanded methods will be exposed - and they can’t have that — it will show the country that they are the Potemkin presidency at best, and the Macchiavelli/Rasputin administration at worst.
The privilege applies whether it was written on the back of a non-government issued envelope. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Executive Privilege, most recently regarding details of Vice President Dick Cheney’s meetings with energy executives. I think if you calm down and realize this is GOOD whether it is a Republican, or hopefully in 2009 Democratic, President …
April 17th, 2007 at 7:59 pmHow can you have a illegal email system and then claim that it is executive privilege. They BROKE THE LAW with this, you lost your “claim†George.
IMPEACH THE BASTARD NOW!
April 17th, 2007 at 8:00 pmI’m sure.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:00 pmApril 28th is Impeachment Day. I have my bumper sticker in place.
If you don’t have one, you can get auto window paint (like the kind used by high school football teams) to display your sentiments as you drive around town. You can wash it off later or wait till it rains - or keep repainting it!
Every action by this corrupt cabal gives additional reason to impeach them. It makes impeachment for lying about a blow job in the oval office look silly by comparison.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:02 pmActually the Flood letter doesn’t claim executive “privilege” (which is a legal term) but executive “interest”. Which has no basis under precedent or law.
Furthermore, if the White House is claiming “a clear and indisputable Executive Branch interest” in the emails, then that pretty much is a de facto admission of violation of the Hatch Act since if the RNC emails weren’t comprised of off-the-books policy transactions or political activity on White House time, then they wouldn’t be of any material official White House interest and hence covered by executive privilege.
If it was political, and hence they had to RNC email because it would otherwise violate the Hatch Act, then it isn’t privileged executive communication. If it IS privileged because it was about official WHite House policy, etc. using RNC email means a violation of the Presidential Records Act.
Furthermore, if it was RNC email to avoid the Hatch Act, then it is a tacit admission that the US Attorney’s were fired for political, not performance reasons.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:04 pm“Executive privilege!”…squealing like the pigs that they are.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:07 pmugh
Here’s a graph of bush’s approval over his “presidency”: \
April 17th, 2007 at 8:08 pmRe: posts 9 and 12
April 17th, 2007 at 8:11 pmAgreed, precedence has given the VP executive privilige.
Underlings, to use your descriptive, remain to be defined.
Hired (ok, appointed) aides to either the president or the vice president who are conducting political party business from within the White House, do not have executive privilige.
thank you for the clarification, lestatdelc
April 17th, 2007 at 8:12 pmExecutive privilege? Good luck with that fiction, GDumbya.
Heck, I remember when you were even bold enough to claim “executive competence”. Now we all know how well that has worked out for the empty-suited moron in the White House and his half-witted brother, Dick the Prick.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:13 pmDelay! That is the key. That is exactly what the gooper game is. Anyone of us unwashed could have told our Dem leadership that that is the exactly the game. Now, lets see what our esteemed leadership is going to do.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:14 pmI beg the house and the senate to please impeach our little woodenhead president before he does any further harm to our country, our citizens and the world.
The thought that executive privilege can be extended to what is probably illegal activity on behalf of the staff of the president is beyond arrogant.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:17 pmYeah, and when Bush is IMPEACHED by Congress,
they will say that Congress CAN’T impeach him,
because of EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE.
My God, these people are TRAITORS….
See you in hell my Nazi supporters (cause I’LL be THERE),
Mr. Bush
April 17th, 2007 at 8:17 pmMURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL
COXUCKER PUNK TRAITOR TO THE USA (TM)
#16 lestatdelc
I hope you are right! Damned if you did, damned if you did.
Tell us when you get your blog up. I am a wise ass.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:18 pmBullsh!t.
These communications were deliberately kept outside of the approved channels to circumvent the Presidential Records Act. If these communications don’t qualify to be recorded under the Presidential Records Act, they don’t qualify for the protection of Executive Privilege either.
You can’t have it both ways, Chimpy.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:20 pmI think that it’s clear by now that Bush cares primarily about power and influence. He supports the needs of the people and corporations that support him. This, unfortunately, leaves out more than 90% of the population. He keeps power primarily through public relations (lies and spin) and the support of the under-10%.
It becomes a vicious circle. The 10% can’t benefit at the expense of the 90% unless roughly half the adult population thinks what Bush/the Reupublican party have said and done make sense one day every four years. That can be done through either truth or public relations. The truth won’t work since only 10% are benefitting.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:22 pmHell yeah, BNF predicted it.
Not serpryzed.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:23 pmNancy Pelosi, isn’t it time to put impeachment back on the table yet?
April 17th, 2007 at 8:24 pmThat’s really the thing of it. They fucked up and broke the law in how they went about organizing the firing US Attorney’s, one way or another, then lied to congress about it. They are now simply trying to cover their asses and extricate themselves from getting held to account for it by sequestering the evidence behind their “wall” of executive priv… er… “interest”.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:26 pmI wonder how far Hillary might go with this “executive privilage” or unitary executive idea against the “vast rightwing conspiracy” in this country? She just might find out how vast it really is…
April 17th, 2007 at 8:26 pm#26 TMM
exactly.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:26 pm#2, I seem to recall reading something somewhere that Bush refuses to use email. So there isn’t likely any emails at the RNC or the White House that were sent directly to King George.
Regardless, if those emails are so frickn’ important, they shouldn’t have used their RNC accounts. Not that I believe in executive privilege but any remote claim they had they tossed out the window the moment those electrons left the White House network.
Refusal to turn them over should lead to automatic impeachment.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:27 pmpredictable. Following Nixon’s playbook to the letter.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:32 pmJRoyale,
I agree, the data left the WH network, effectively just yelling stuff out the window.
Laws relating to this kind of stuff, with computer networks, are still relatively new. I bet Karl researched the “rhobustness” of the laws and figured he could get away with it.
Lets see how it plays out.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:33 pmComment by ForTruth
The music industry can sue to get the info on some kid downloading music, but Congress cant sue to get the email of a political party acting guilty as sin?
Something is upside down there.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:43 pmElizabeth,
Have you taken your cues from Fox News and just assume you can spout lies and no one will call you out? Just to keep you informed since, as pew reported, Fox news is doing a really bad job of doing that for you:
1. Cheney’s Energy conference, ignoring legality issues, never reached the Supreme Court because the Rubberstamp masquerading as congress never forced the issue.
2. If they are claiming Executive privilege, that is an admission of guilt on the PRA.
3. There is no evidence that Executive Privilige applies to RNC communication and has no basis in law.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:50 pmWhy didn’t Don Imus claim executive privilege for his remarks. The next time the police wants someone to confess, the prisoner should claim executive privilege. If my wife catches me cheating I’m claiming executive privilege too. This is the coverall excuse of the century and I’m using it. If my boss ask why I’m late, I’ll say: That’s executive privilege and I’m not going to tell you.
What a great excuse, man these guys in this administration are brilliant. If I had known about this privilege I could have saved my first marriage and a whole lot of trouble when I’ve had to admit mistakes. That was also before they started saying: “I don’t admit to any wrong doing”, too. What’s next, “the dog eat my e-mail”.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:51 pmNope. As soon as it went through the RNC servers, it ceased to be covered by Executive Priviledge. By definition, government business would need to be conducted on the archived White House server.
The Bushies are reaching for straws, now.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:57 pmJeff,
April 17th, 2007 at 9:03 pmYou forgot 911, It looks more like this:
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Perhaps time for a new reading of E A Robinson’s poem, “Mr. Flood’s Party”
Old Eben Flood, climbing alone one night
Over the hill between the town below
And the forsaken upland hermitage
That held as much as he should ever know
On earth again of home, paused warily.
The road was his with not a native near;
And Eben, having leisure, said aloud,
For no man else in Tilbury Town to hear:
“Well, Mr. Flood, we have the harvest moon
Again, and we may not have many more;
The bird is on the wing, the poet says,
And you and I have said it here before.
Drink to the bird.” He raised up to the light
The jug that he had gone so far to fill,
And answered huskily: “Well, Mr. Flood,
Since you propose it, I believe I will.”
Alone, as if enduring to the end
A valiant armor of scarred hopes outworn,
He stood there in the middle of the road
Like Roland’s ghost winding a silent horn.
Below him, in the town among the trees,
Where friends of other days had honored him,
A phantom salutation of the dead
Rang thinly till old Eben’s eyes were dim.
Then, as a mother lays her sleeping child
Down tenderly, fearing it may awake,
He set the jug down slowly at his feet
With trembling care, knowing that most things break;
And only when assured that on firm earth
It stood, as the uncertain lives of men
Assuredly did not, he paced away,
And with his hand extended paused again:
“Well, Mr. Flood, we have not met like this
In a long time; and many a change has come
To both of us, I fear, since last it was
We had a drop together. Welcome home!”
Convivially returning with himself,
Again he raised the jug up to the light;
And with an acquiescent quaver said:
“Well, Mr. Flood, if you insist, I might.
“Only a very little, Mr. Flood–
For auld lang syne. No more, sir; that will do.”
So, for the time, apparently it did,
And Eben evidently thought so too;
For soon amid the silver loneliness
Of night he lifted up his voice and sang,
Secure, with only two moons listening,
Until the whole harmonious landscape rang–
“For auld lang syne.” The weary throat gave out,
April 17th, 2007 at 9:29 pmThe last word wavered; and the song being done,
He raised again the jug regretfully
And shook his head, and was again alone.
There was not much that was ahead of him,
And there was nothing in the town below–
Where strangers would have shut the many doors
That many friends had opened long ago.
TOTALLY
CORRUPT
right…. crew states the most sacred house in the land who of course would follow legal laws, in fact doesn’t follow laws at all
SUPPOSELY THEY BELIEVE THEY ARE ABOVE THE LAW AND ABOVE THE CONSTITUTION.
yeah know there has been SO MUCH criminal activtity over the past couple of years, they might believe they are above the law and doesn’t effect them
ISN’T
THAT
WHAT
A
SCANDAL
IS?????
JUST LOOK AT DELAY….. A COMPLETE SHAMELESS CRIMINAL AND YET HE STATES HE IS PEFECTLY INNOCENT.
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE DEALING WITH HERE. THUGS, HOODLUMS
C
O
R
R
U
P
T
I
O
N
ENOUGH TO MAKE EVERYONE DUG GONE
P
U
K
E
THEM OUT OF OFFICE AND CAN’T DO THAT EITHER BECAUSE THEY ARE SUCH GOOD
POLITICAL
PARASITES
AND
LEECHEES
LITERALLY A BUNCH OF MAGGOTS, TICKS, A CESSPOOL OF ABSOLUTE CORRUPTION
April 17th, 2007 at 10:07 pmCREW SAYS THEY ARE CLEARLY COMITTING CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND THEY COME BACK AND SAY WE ARE ABOVE THE LAW
OF COURSE THEY ARE HIDING, SO IT GOES MUCH MUCH FARTHER THAN
JUST CRIMINAL ACTIVITY REGARDING THE EMAIL
I BELIEVE IN EVERYONE’S BOOKS
CESSPOOL OF PARASITES, MAGGOTS, LEECHES
THE HOUSE WITH THE MOST SACRED GOD APPOINTED ROCK SOLID INTEGRITY, EVERYTHING IS JUST SO PERFECT IN THAT HOUSE, THE HOUSE THAT EVERY LAW ABIDING CITIZEN SHOULD FOLLOW AND YET WHAT IS THE EXAMPLE THEY TELL EVERYONES KIDS TO FOLLOW.
THAT KIND OF PUBLIC SERVANTS ARE TOTALLY CORRUPT AND COMPLETELY
OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY, BUT THEY DO JUST FINE WITH OTHERS WHO
SHARE THEIR REALITY
ABRAMHOFF
CORRUPT
BUSH
CORRUPT
CHENEY
CORRUPT
SANTORUM
CORRUPT
DELAY
CORRUPT
ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU PUKE
April 17th, 2007 at 10:13 pm#32 wrote, “I seem to recall reading something somewhere that Bush refuses to use email.”
Comment by JRoyale — April 17, 2007 @ 8:27 pm
The man can barely speak his native language. Please don’t make me read it as well. Plus if GWB initiates and/or replies, it’s an official record.
April 17th, 2007 at 10:23 pmThe privilege applies whether it was written on the back of a non-government issued envelope. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Executive Privilege, most recently regarding details of Vice President Dick Cheney’s meetings with energy executives. I think if you calm down and realize this is GOOD whether it is a Republican, or hopefully in 2009 Democratic, President …
Comment by Elizabeth — April 17, 2007 @ 7:59 pm
Well, LIZ, I guess since you have all the answers we can just get rid of the Supreme Court and ask for your opinion instead.
April 17th, 2007 at 10:40 pmI’m sure.
Comment by Elizabeth — April 17, 2007 @ 8:00 pm
Is that you Sandra Day O’Coonor? Otherwise you don’t know jack.
April 17th, 2007 at 10:41 pmBush will hide behind the very constitution he’s been dismantling since 911 !
April 17th, 2007 at 10:52 pmMean while all the rats that haven’t jumped ship are being indicted or subpoenaed before congress ! Decent conservatives are falling out of step and adding their voices to the growing chorus of dissent .Almost revives ones hope in democracy .
If the republicans want to survive this presidency then they are best served in calling for an end to Georges assaults on the constitution ! NOW !
Repukes are gonna get mad when a Dem Preznit does all the same stuff…
April 17th, 2007 at 11:02 pmBTW,
How about those visitation logs recently placed under “executive privilege”?
Someone is abusing the privilege, and he will lose all his privileges, and have to go to bed without supper.
April 17th, 2007 at 11:07 pmHillary can’t wait to claim executive privilege.
April 17th, 2007 at 11:09 pmThere can not be nor is there any legal precedence for claiming RNC property is under jurisdiction or protection of white House Privilege.
This is just bazenly asinine.
You know, I really try to give the benefit of the doubt, but damn it!!!
Just impeach these rogues.
April 17th, 2007 at 11:12 pmLAWMAKERS ARE SUPPOSE TO FOLLOW THE LAW THEMSELVES,
WHEN THEY DON’T BUT THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO THEY ARE
CRIMINALS
FAST TALKING
SHIFTY EYED
SMOOTH TALKING
I’D LIKE TO KNOW HOW WE GOT A BUNCH OF VERY QUESTIONABLE
LAWBREAKERS AND ATTORNEYS SERVING THE PEOPLE AT THE HIGHEST
LEVEL.
THEY’RE SUPPOSE TO BE APPOINTED BECAUSE OF THEIR ROCK SOLID
INTEGRITY, HARD WORK, ABSOLUTE HONESTY WHERE THEY ARE REPAID FOR THE SERVICE THEY PROVIDE
INSTEAD WE GET A BUNCH OF THUGS, HOODLUMS, BACK ROOM DEALS, PARASITES, LEECHES, MAGGOTS AND A WHOLE CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION :(
NO… NO WAY DO THEY SERVE THE PEOPLE ANYMORE, CORRUPTION IS SO DOG GONE COMMON WHICH CITY HAS THE HIGHEST CRIME RATE.. WHY IT HAPPENS TO BE WASHINGTON DC
April 17th, 2007 at 11:20 pmOOPS WHAT I MEANT IN THE FIRST SENTENCE OF THE PREVIOUS POST WAS AND NOW IS
GOD SUPPOSELY APPOINTED THOSE WITH THE UTMOST INTEGRITY TO SERVE US AND LOOK AT THE MESS WE’RE NOW IN.. I BELIEVE THE REST OF THE POST IS ACCURATE REGARDING THIS CESSPOOL OF THINGS SUPPOSELY SERVING US. ENOUGH TO DOG GONE P**E… IT’S DISGUSTING & HORRENDOUS WE PAY THESE SWINDLERS IN EXCHANGE FOR SERVICE THEY PROVIDE, BY MY OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, MCDONALDS PROVIDE FAR SUPERIOR QUALITY SERVICE THAN THOSE SO CALLED SACRED SERVANTS… HORRENDOUS AINT IT
April 17th, 2007 at 11:25 pmI haven’t read all the comments yet, so if this has been said please forgive me. But the WH has absolutely no legal claim to “Executive Privilege” to RNC-controlled emails. They WOULD have that claim to in-house emails, but because there 1) is a possibility of criminal intent involved and 2) there is no “national security” issues here, even internal emails can’t be excluded with that claim. The Nixon tapes set the precedent via the Supreme Court.
April 17th, 2007 at 11:51 pm#47
Repukes are gonna get mad when a Dem Preznit does all the same stuff…
Comment by ForTruth — April 17, 2007 @ 11:02 pm
So willI.( my post never posted so here goes the short version)
I think Ive been moderated for not falling behind the party line in pointing out that the democrats need to prove themselves in the next 19 months inorder to earn my vote and that with so many dissaffected republican voters the time is ripe for the rise of a 3rd party !
April 17th, 2007 at 11:58 pmI agree freeman, the Dems still have quite thier own oil-sucking, war investment freaks who are really no better in the end.
April 18th, 2007 at 12:06 amwhat a strange poem. thanks, reb.
April 18th, 2007 at 12:10 amTP you wouldn’t censor a comment critical of the 2 party system ,would you ?I’ve never had a post lost before,I’m hoping it had more to do with atmospheric conditions and my wireless internet connection than in moderation by the big guys upstairs .
April 18th, 2007 at 12:11 amIf the democrats won’t play ball with the progressives than they may face a challenge in the next elections cycle .Republican voters may well abandon their party and cast a protest vote which could easily affect the next election.
Show us what you’ve got democrats ,earn our gratitude and our votes by your actions over the next 19 months !
CAUSE WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING YOUR SONG ‘
TELLIN US HOW YOU WERE CHANGING RIGHT FROM WRONG ,
CAUSE IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HEAR OUR VIEWS,
YOU HAVEN’T DONE NOTHING !
DO THE WALK HEY HEY HEY DO THE WALK HEY HEY NOW DO THE WALK ,SAY IT NOW ALL YOU PEOPLE SAY DO THE WALK STAND UP BE COUNT SAY DO THE WALK
April 18th, 2007 at 12:19 amSTevie
Sorry I’m so late to the party, but for those of you who check back, here is an excellent article on the nature and scope of Executive Privilege.
April 18th, 2007 at 12:25 amthe good cop bad cop routine is tired and after this fiasco quite possibly finished !
I demand as much representation in our government as EXXON whose money litters the campaign trail on both sides of the aisle .
The internet and the scandal of the bush presidency may well signal a change in the status quo and our best hope for democracy in generations !
No free ride for the democrats either !
DEMOCRACY NOW !!!
April 18th, 2007 at 12:26 amFaire being,
April 18th, 2007 at 12:28 amhere’s a cock tail and would you care for an oer deurve?
So Executive Privilege is wide open. The Supremes may just have 5 people who would vote against Bush. Karl thinks he’s got this one handled with the DC circuit judge. Just thinkin’ out loud.
April 18th, 2007 at 12:32 amTrust no one !
April 18th, 2007 at 12:36 amIf the constitution and bill of rights is put back in place as it was ,I’ll think seriously of speaking out on behalf of the democratic party .If these laws are still in place in 19 months I will be lending my support to Ralph Nader (or another 3rd party candidate),who has it right when he says that ours is a democracy by of and for the coporations !
Time for a real change in The American political landscape !
Sorry I’m so late to the party, but for those of you who check back, here is an excellent article on the nature and scope of Executive Privilege.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
Cool. Thanks!
April 18th, 2007 at 12:42 amWhen the country is confused and in chaos ,
April 18th, 2007 at 12:56 amloyal ministers appear. Tao te ching
Self be your guide ,self be your leader , do not look for any other leader. gautama buddha Dhamma pada
April 18th, 2007 at 1:02 amI direct your attention to point 15 in the above linked article:
(emphasis added)
As I pointed out earlier, in attempting to extend Executive Privilege over emails on a political party’s server, the argument must necessarily state that the emails were “official business.” This, in turn, brings up the question of why was official business conducted outside of the White House servers, and certainly gives the appearance of an attempt to bypass the Presidential Records Act. Bypassing the Presidential Records Act would be an act of misconduct.
Hopefully, Congress will fast track this through the courts. (Remember how fast Congress acted in the Shiavo case?) I expect Bush will do everything possible to drag this out until he is no longer in office. (how long did it take Bush to finally file charges against Padilla? three years?)
And, thanks, by the way, for noticing (post #1.).
April 18th, 2007 at 1:11 amWon’t this ‘executive privilege’ = refusal, become a constitutional crisis that leads to an IMPEACHMENT as some Senators mention from time to time?
April 18th, 2007 at 1:16 amComment by goehl — April 18, 2007 @ 1:16 am
I doubt it.
For what it’s worth, I drew a Rune.
Nied:necessity.
This is a delay rune.
April 18th, 2007 at 1:23 amExecutive “interest” is a nice word game, intended to suggest that it carries the same weight as executive “privilege”. It doesn’t. In fact, “interest” carries no legal weight at all.
The RNC claims that it treated alll these WH e-mails as routine traffic. Hence, it was not acting as a govt IT services provider under a stringent written contract. It was just a recipient of e-mails. As a result, any executive privilege that might have attached to some of this correspondence has been lost. It’s gone. Zip. Nada. Gone with the Wind.
There is no valid legal basis for the RNC to refuse to comply with a Congressional subpoena. We’re now where Dick Cheney likes it. He gets to slap his on the table and claim that it’s bigger. Let’s see if he uses the same size ruler as everybody else.
April 18th, 2007 at 1:40 am-The House Judc. Cmte. is investigating whether the WH used RNC
email addresses to circumvent WH retention of communications,
which the WH was legally required to retain, concerning whether they have been used as cover in the investigation regarding the US Atty firings, and, more importantly, whether they used as an intentional attempt at a circumvention of the Hatch Act.
If they possibly used RNC emails for official Executive business,
which Fielding has suggested they most likely have, then that in
and of itself, deserves the scrutiny of House and Senate oversight.
- - So if the WH is attempting to preview all RNC emails for official
April 18th, 2007 at 5:02 amExecutive privileged communications, why should they be able to decide what is seen? Only the relevant investigatory committee, in this case the House Judiciary, should be able to make that distinction. If the WH objects, let a mutually agreed upon special counsel/prosecutor decide what is relevant and what should be protected.
Today, Karl Rove came out in front of the AEI in a garter belt, high heels and a whip and claimed that Bush claimed executive privilege over lady justice. The nazis at the AEI all clapped while secretly wearing pink lace under their Brooks Brothers suits.
April 18th, 2007 at 6:42 amTHAT ACTION
PROVES
ALL THOSE
EMAILS
STILL
EXIST!
THEY
DO!
April 18th, 2007 at 9:32 amYes, first they delay . . . now YOU DELAY !
April 18th, 2007 at 9:41 amWhat did they do John, convince you to help them cover up their crimes ?
Link
You have to be kidding me. Bill Clinton could not even lay claim to executive privilege for his own penis?
April 18th, 2007 at 1:04 pmYou have to be kidding me. Bill Clinton could not even lay claim to executive privilege for his own p*nis?
April 18th, 2007 at 1:05 pm