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Bush Hides “Plame-gate” Testimony
by Jason Leopold / July 18th, 2008
In the latest twist in the “Plame-gate” scandal, President George W. Bush has asserted executive privilege to block release of Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview with a special prosecutor about possible criminal violations in the leaking of a CIA officer’s covert identity.
Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, promptly denounced the White House legal reasoning as “ludicrous,” noting that executive privilege covers advice that an aide gives the President, not responses to legal questions posed by a prosecutor about a possible crime.
Bush applied his broad assertion of executive privilege Wednesday at the request of Attorney General Michael Mukasey, …
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Bush Hides “Plame-gate” Testimony
by Jason Leopold / July 18th, 2008
In the latest twist in the “Plame-gate” scandal, President George W. Bush has asserted executive privilege to block release of Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview with a special prosecutor about possible criminal violations in the leaking of a CIA officer’s covert identity.
Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, promptly denounced the White House legal reasoning as “ludicrous,” noting that executive privilege covers advice that an aide gives the President, not responses to legal questions posed by a prosecutor about a possible crime.
Bush applied his broad assertion of executive privilege Wednesday at the request of Attorney General Michael Mukasey, …
(Full article …)
by Jason Leopold / July 18th, 2008
In the latest twist in the “Plame-gate” scandal, President George W. Bush has asserted executive privilege to block release of Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview with a special prosecutor about possible criminal violations in the leaking of a CIA officer’s covert identity.
Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, promptly denounced the White House legal reasoning as “ludicrous,” noting that executive privilege covers advice that an aide gives the President, not responses to legal questions posed by a prosecutor about a possible crime.
Bush applied his broad assertion of executive privilege Wednesday at the request of Attorney General Michael Mukasey, …
(Full article …)
It is time to heat up Impeachment procedings against Bush & Cheny.
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