Bush Asserts Executive Privilege

Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
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June 29, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush refused Thursday to turn over records sought by Congress in its investigation of the firing of federal prosecutors, setting up a standoff with no quick resolution unless one side or the other blinks.
White House counsel Fred Fielding told lawmakers in a letter that "the president has decided to assert executive privilege and therefore the White House will not be making any production" of documents.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) denounced the rebuff as "Nixonian stonewalling and more evidence of their disdain for our system of checks and balances."
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