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House Judiciary Rejects Executive Privilege Claim
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ABC News' Jason Ryan Reports: A House Judiciary subcommittee voted Thursday to reject the White House's claim of executive privilege in the ongoing U.S. attorney firings investigation.
The commercial and administrative law subcommittee shot down the claim in a partisan 7-3 vote.
Subcommittee chair Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., said "The White House has thus far chosen a path of confrontation... executive privilege must be used judiciously."
Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, objected to the entire proceeding, which could lead the way to contempt charges and a battle in the courts.
"There is no evidence of wrong doing," Cannon said about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year. "We've damaged the Department of Justice... there is no basis for proceeding with further investigation."
The Justice Department has released more than 3000 pages of internal documents concerning the firings but the White House has claimed executive privilege on White House documents and memos.
Last week former White House counsel Harriet Miers defied a subpoena from the Judiciary Committee and did not show up to a hearing.
Sanchez said that the White House chief of staff is required to turn over the requested documents. "The documents do not include communications from the president... Mr. [Joshua] Bolton is legally required to produce these documents," Sanchez said.
It is unclear if the full committee will vote to reject the White House's claim of executive privilege.
July 19, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (4)
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When, when, when is someone going to stand up to our school yard bully of a president and bloody his nose? I feel as soon as someone has the guts to do this the house of cards will fall.
Posted by: Steve Levon | Jul 19, 2007 7:42:17 PM
I'm tried already of the political showboating going on around here. Dems and Rep are corrupt and it is not a matter of degrees. Dems need to stop trying to get back at the Rep for the time they were the minority group and start taking care of America.
Posted by: Not a party member | Jul 20, 2007 11:52:08 AM
O.K. boys, now how about some "real" justice.
Posted by: sandra l | Jul 20, 2007 4:25:40 PM
When provided proof of Republican corruption, a sane person says "this proves that Republicans are corrupt". When provided proof of Republican corruption, the Republican says "See both parties are corrupt". We have seen ample proof of political rot endemic to the Republican party. There has been no proof or indication of the same rot within the Republican party.
I think that about 100 convicted/indicted Republicans in the last 7 years including the leaders of the party vs the 2 convicted/indicted Democrats in the same time period kind of proves it. And how many more Republicans would have been convicted had not Bush starting firing any federal prosecuter who investigated Republicans?
Posted by: Tammy Stickers | Jul 24, 2007 10:43:35 AM
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