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Legal Memo Confirms White House Led Effort To Target And Remove U.S. Attorneys
therawstory Today, White House counsel Fred Fielding released a letter informing Congress that President Bush will assert executive privilege over White House documents relating to the firing of U.S. attorneys. Fielding attached a legal memorandum written by Solicitor General Paul Clement, laying out the legal basis for the executive privilege claim. Clement reviewed the documents…
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Ex-Reagan Associate Deputy Attorney General: Impeach Cheney
therawstory Josh Catone Bruce Fein, who served as the Associate Deputy Attorney General under Ronald Reagan, in a scathing editorial today called for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. “Cheney has dulled political accountability and concocted theories for evading the law and Constitution that would have embarrassed King George III,” he writes. (Original Article)
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Bush invokes executive privilege, won’t turn over U.S. attorney documents
By John Bresnahan, The Politico President Bush has invoked executive privilege and is refusing to turn over to congressional investigators any White House documents related to the U.S. attorney firings. In a letter today to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), Solicitor General Paul Clement informed…
