DoubleEdgeSword
Jul 9th, 2007, 09:47 AM
Gee. What a surprise.
Bush: Former aides won't testify in fired prosecutors
Congress issued subpoenas for Harriet Miers, Sara Taylor
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from two former aides about the firings of federal prosecutors.
White House counsel Fred Fielding made the executive privilege claim in a letter to congressional panels.
The White House, however, did offer again to make former counsel Harriet Miers and one-time political director Sara Taylor available for private, off-the-record interviews.
In a letter to the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary panels, White House counsel Fred Fielding insisted that Bush was acting in good faith and refused lawmakers' demand that the president explain the basis for invoking the privilege.
The latest move in the separation of powers fight between the legislative and executive branches came as members of Congress began returning from their Fourth of July recess. An atmosphere of high tension accompanied the resumption of work as a fight also loomed there between majority Democrats and some key Republicans and Bush over his Iraq war policy.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/09/congress.bush.ap/index.html
Bush: Former aides won't testify in fired prosecutors
Congress issued subpoenas for Harriet Miers, Sara Taylor
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from two former aides about the firings of federal prosecutors.
White House counsel Fred Fielding made the executive privilege claim in a letter to congressional panels.
The White House, however, did offer again to make former counsel Harriet Miers and one-time political director Sara Taylor available for private, off-the-record interviews.
In a letter to the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary panels, White House counsel Fred Fielding insisted that Bush was acting in good faith and refused lawmakers' demand that the president explain the basis for invoking the privilege.
The latest move in the separation of powers fight between the legislative and executive branches came as members of Congress began returning from their Fourth of July recess. An atmosphere of high tension accompanied the resumption of work as a fight also loomed there between majority Democrats and some key Republicans and Bush over his Iraq war policy.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/09/congress.bush.ap/index.html