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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (16926)	7/16/1998 4:20:00 PM
From: John Hensley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

Talk about a "stinging rebuke": One of the appeals judges, Laurence Silberman, issued a separate concurring opinion that suggested the Justice Department was making its appeals in the personal interest of Clinton rather the government. ''The notion, about which the panel was dubious, that the newly minted Secret Service protection privilege is being asserted by the Treasury Department, independent of the president, seems to me to be a constitutional absurdity,'' he wrote. Silberman also said he realized the Justice Deparment comes ''under terrible political pressures and strains of conscience ... when the president's agents literally and figuratively declare war on the independent counsel.'' The Justice Department ''has not made a sufficient showing that it will ultimately prevail in establishing the privilege it alleges. The harm asserted is future harm, depending on a prediction about what the president will do in the absence of the privilege,'' the court concluded. ''This court has ruled that the privilege does not exist; no judge on the court has even requested a vote,'' it said.