Reply #75: I'm wondering if they are hiding a lot worse things than we even suspect. [View All]

[JDPriestly]

They are going to such lengths, risking the 2008 election, the whole shebang on preventing Congress from calling witnesses and investigating actions that they claim are perfectly legal. I'm really wondering if the Bush administration is even worse than our worst imaginings. Why else would they be so protective of their privileges.

They will probably push the issue of executive privilege to their Supreme Court. The problem is that a decision that prevents a Democratic Congress from obtaining the information this Congress is requesting would someday prevent a Republican Congress from getting similar information from a Democratic president. I heard Conyers say this morning, for example, that Clinton waived his executive privilege so that Congress could investigate the Mark Rich pardon. Of course, I am unaware of any previous president who used the Justice Department for blatantly purposes so blatantly partisan.