WP compares Rove WH claims of privilege with Clinton's

[Rose Siding]

Analysis
Privilege at Stake With Nominees
Bush Aims to Reassert Presidential Power in Debate Over Roberts, Bolton

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The principle at stake is one that has been a source of friction over the limits of presidential power since George Washington. Under President Bill Clinton, multiple clashes with Congress, the judiciary and independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr chipped away at attorney-client and executive privileges on sensitive documents and conversations. But since coming to power, Bush has doggedly reclaimed turf that eroded under Clinton, asserting the power of his office to shield everything from energy policy deliberations to the papers of past presidents.
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Starr, for instance, regularly rejected privilege claims during the Whitewater and Monica S. Lewinsky investigations. But in the Roberts case, the White House cites a letter signed by all living former solicitors general opposing disclosure of internal working papers from that office -- including Starr, who held that post under President George H.W. Bush and was Roberts's supervisor.
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Regardless of who was to blame, Bush and Vice President Cheney came to office convinced that the presidency had been weakened under Clinton and resolved to reverse that trend. In October 2001, then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft sent a memo instructing agencies to be more cautious in releasing data under the Freedom of Information Act. A few weeks after that, Bush signed an executive order allowing either the White House or former presidents to block release of their presidential papers.

Bush's determination to reinvigorate presidential power led to some of his tenure's most notable disputes. He refused to turn over information stemming from an energy task force led by Cheney in 2001, triggering a long legal fight that ended in victory for Bush in May when a federal appeals court threw out lawsuits challenging the confidentiality policy. Bush likewise refused to give the Senate papers related to appellate court nominee Miguel A. Estrada's service in the solicitor general's office. Rather than turn over the papers, Bush allowed the nomination to be withdrawn.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/01/AR2005080101546.html

IOKIYAR

[sinkingfeeling]

1. And neither of these guys are elected officials and Starr set the

standard for denying 'executive privlege'.

[Totally Committed]

2. Wow, maybe Rove is the real President of the United States!

And, all along, I've thought it was Cheney. :sarcasm:

What a stinking mob of criminals. Honestly. Rove is a high-level staffer! And they compare his "privilege" with Bill Clinton's? Ugh.

[Rose Siding]

3. I'm afraid I've unintentionally misled you

I've taken a sort of political license with the term "Rove WH" :blush:

The article doesn't actually concern him.

[Supersedeas]

4. Congress must waive their oversight authority or * takes the bat and ball

and goes stomping back into the White House...so there.

Now, Corporate Media--print only the WH side of the story!!!

[Stirk]

5. It's not really about "presidential power", it's about empowering the

Republican Party, and the little dictator at the top.

They couldn't care less about "presidential power", and will work just as doggedly as ever to undermine it as soon as the Republicans don't control the White House.

These are party-before-country, banana Republicans.