Ken,

INTERESTING..... The thing I wondered about was the testimony by the_
former_ White House political director yewterday.  Since she's no
longer a member of the administration, is she covered by the executive
priviledge argument?  The same could be said of Harriet Miers,
although since they're being asked to testify about events that took
place during their tenure at the White House, I imagine they would be
covered.

On 7/12/07, ken barber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> our president upon being summons and supeanas for
> certian infomation on the firings of the procecutors
> and the comuting of scooter lewis's sentence has
> claimed "executive priviledge" and is refusing to give
> congress the documents demanded.
>
> without getting into the motives or merits of the
> demands for information, i'll just state that i do not
> think the courts are going to rule in congresses favor
> on this one becouse of separation of powers of the
> three branches of government.
>
> however here is an interesting aspect. as a strict
> constitutionalist, i thing that vice president dick
> cheney might could be required to give his information
> on these subjects. regardles of what the duties of the
> VP has evolved into; constitutioanlly he is "president
> of the senate." there would be a constitutional
> arguement that as such he is in the legislative branch
> and therefore cannot claim executive priviledge. the
> congress might very well be able to demand and get any
> info that cheney has. it might pass muster in the
> court. i do not know.
>
> just throwing this out for those interested in this
> sort of thing.
>
>
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