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Bush claims privilege to withhold CIA leak records
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by renovatio | July 16, 2008 at 06:39 pm
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What is Mr. Bush trying to do? What is Mr. Bush trying to address?
Is Mr. Bush hiding something?
President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration's leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in 2003.
The president's decision drew a sharp protest Wednesday from Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of House Oversight Committee, which had subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over the documents.
"This unfounded assertion of executive privilege does not protect a principle; it protects a person," the California Democrat said. "If the vice president did nothing wrong, what is there to hide?"
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at 18:46 on July 16th, 2008
Ahh, nothing new, Bush is the most secretive President in modern history. Could you imagine if he disclosed even a tenth of the skeletons of his administration; we would revoke his citizenship.