White House Asserts Executive Privilege

June 28th, 2007

Imagine my shock.

What’s next for this Enemy Collaborator Congress? Bootlicking?

Via: Breitbart / AP:

President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers’ demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.

Bush’s attorney told Congress the White House would not turn over subpoenaed documents for former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor.

In reaction, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy accused the administration of shifting “into Nixonian stonewalling” and revealing “disdain for our system of checks and balances.”

“With respect, it is with much regret that we are forced down this unfortunate path which we sought to avoid by finding grounds for mutual accommodation,” White House counsel Fred Fielding said in a letter to Leahy and the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. “We had hoped this matter could conclude with your committees receiving information in lieu of having to invoke executive privilege. Instead, we are at this conclusion.”

5 Responses to “White House Asserts Executive Privilege”

  1. tsoldrin says:

    Here’s my prediction…

    The neocon agenda is over. They’ll take the fall and a whole bunch of blame, then very same agenda, rebranded as neoliberalism will rise.

  2. Stalling for time . . . stalling for time.

  3. One day this will be made into a Hollywood farce. Oh wait, it already is a Hollywood farce.

  4. Alek Hidell says:

    This, and the very negative WaPo series on Cheney suggest the PTB are gearing up for another meaningless public ritual sacrifice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-death-rebirth_deity in preparation for handing the baton of overseer-in-chief over to a player from the blue team. For the public to rejoice at the ascenension of Hillary/Obama/Edwards, first the old Kings must be discredited, just as Bill Clinton was disgraced at the end of his regime. The PTB do not like the idea of ex-executives with a large public following.

  5. tmb says:

    What a joke . . . the USDOJ cleared of almost all the honest lawyers by Karl Rove (a man who should be under the jail not in it), once a career attorney path for decent lawyers, now little more than an outfit for born again nut job graduates of Jesus Huckster Pat Robertson’s “Law School” U. (one of the lowest rated “law” schools in existence), post-Bush II the DOJ now specializes in voter suppression, voter “caging”, and the evidence increasingly seems to show, in framing people that are not “loyal Bushies” who can then appear before “Bushie” Federal Judges for a “trial” . . . this path started when Federal Judges, mostly appointed by Bush I and Reagan (really always Bush I b/c he ran things after Reagan’s near “assassination” by son of Bush family friend Mr. Hinkley i.e. Reagan never really ran things again after being shot under the arm in the presidential limo with some kind of metal object after being “saved”, ala JFK style, by his “body guards” – see John Judge on a good summary of this . . . . will anyone ever be able to calculate how much damage the Bush family really has done to the USA?) along with the Bush “sentencing guidelines” made it so anyone who does not cop a plea to a federal charge, regardless of how stacked and phoney, will be hit with a crippling sentence after “trial” – – meaning you are penalized for taking your case to trial in the “land of the free” . . . the truth is the only right the non-rich, non-Bushies have in the USA is the right to remain silent in the face of the criminal conduct of their own “government” and the peons are exercising that right as Bushco burns the Constitution, ends the Bill Of Rights, and destroys the value of the U.S. Dollar ending with the fireside sale of all assets to their wealthy vulture friends and allies waiting in the wings to swoop in when the crash hits . . . so instead of owning 90% of everything they can own 99% . . . .

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