executive privilege

House Leaders Urged to hold Holder in Contempt of Congress/Fast &Furious, Exec Priv LInk I say it's about time. Operation Fast and Furious resulted in the death of a Border Patrol agent and has gunstore owners running scared. Holder, as the man ultimately responsible for all DoJ activities...

Please be polite and politer. In reference to the USA, and the president thereof: In a brief glance at the web and the history of executive privilege, it would appear that the president's claim of executive privilege is based upon two principles. One that national security is involved or that...

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/19/AR2007071902625.html?hpid=topnews "Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will...

What is the basis for claims that the President has an 'executive priviledge'? The term is thrown around but I am not sure what the basis is for it. Please keep it civil, I ask people to not flame each other, no name calling please.

As we all know, the job of a Presidental press secretary is to spin events. Tony Snow, Bush's Information Minister has been declaring that the President is perfectly within his rights invoking executive privilege in the current attorney general investigation. Well, how times change, see the...

I remember during the whole White Water - Missing Files - Hummer incident that Clinton continually evoked executive privilege. Clinton took Executive Privilege to places it had never been in the History of the United States. In fact Hillary evoked executive Privilege. I'm really torn as to...