Ya know, and I'm just noodlin' here, firing from the lip, so to speak, without really doing the research that would be otherwise required, BUT:
WHAT EXECUTIVE privilege?* Executive privilege is an implicit protection provided to butress the separation of powers clause in the Constitution, which protects the Office of the President from the other branches of government during his/her term in office.
But by what right, and by what theory could this EVER extend to the process by which legislation is passed. That, my freinds, is called legislative history and far from being protected in shadows, its existence must be known for the interpretation of CURRENT LAW. It is not harrasment, but the exact opposite. It is a part of the job that the people HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW.
To hide this legislative history by the President saying that he gets to do it in private is like, well, uh, destroying evidence.
When the Supreme Court last time that the Congress could indict a sitting president for any other reason than treason it was wrong, but even that does not extend to protecting and keeping secret the process of legislative history.
Thank you, your honor. :)
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Mr. Cheney's pleas for concealment also ring hollow
coming a scant two years after his party conducted an
exhaustive exposé of Bill Clinton's sex life - which had
nothing to do with national policy - before Congress.
*As Jack Nicholsen said from the stand in "For A Few Good Men"... "We use the words, executive privilege as a way of life, a code, words to live by; You, you snotnose, use the word like some buzzword to throwaround at some coctail party." |
