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To: Road Walker who wrote (329980)	3/22/2007 7:31:03 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1587979

Well, I'm glad you finally agree that Congress can hold investigations. They always can hold investigations. Whether they are are useful, useless, or even negative, is another issue. Executive privilege? The president himself, and any of his advisers that don't have to be confirmed, can not easily be forced to testify under oath by congress. Traditionally they don't testify under oath in front of congress. Now the president can waive this privilege, and such waiving of the privilege if far from unknown. Most often it is done when serious credible accusations of illegal activity have been made. One famous case was when Ford waived the privilege to testify under oath about his pardon of Nixon.