IP: Bush envokes executive privilege

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "James Rooney" <jamesroo () microsoft com>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> Just one more thing the Bush administration is hiding.
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> http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/12/13/privilege/index.html
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> President Bush invoked executive privilege for the first time Thursday
> to keep Congress from seeing documents of prosecutors' decision-making
> in cases ranging from a decades-old Boston murder to the Clinton-era
> fund-raising probe.
>
> The administration informed a House committee of the decision prior to a
> congressional hearing on the Boston case involving the FBI's handling of
> informants.
>
> In a memo to Attorney General John Ashcroft, the president explained his
> decision.
>
> "It is my decision that you should not release these documents or
> otherwise make them available to the committee," Bush wrote in the memo
> obtained by AP. "I have decided to assert executive privilege with
> respect to the documents."

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