CNN’s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin reports, “The White House has made clear it will cite executive privilege for conversations that took place within the White House on the U.S. attorney matter, and if the people with those conversations happen to have subsequently left the White House, that doesn’t matter. They’re still going to cite executive privilege, and these people are not going to be allowed to testify anytime soon, it appears, if the White House remains as it has been. … Even if they want to testify.”This should be very interesting. Does Executive Privilege, something not even mentioned in the Constitution, extend this far?
Not if America is to continue as something resembling a democratic nation it sure doesn't.
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I hope justice is served
I don't think the Truth and Reconciliation program in South Africa really provided Justice, but the Truth they have provided seems to have squelched the back-and-forth of recriminations and revenge that have given so many nations difficulties after coups and civil wars. That would suggest that the need for Truth is socially more important that the need for Justice.
In the absence of Truth, however, Justice on the Bush administration, the NeoCons, Republicans and the conservatives would be really nice.
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