Thanks to the Chicago Tribune and Agence France-Presse we can provide you with the text of a column written by ex-Detroit News writer, Faux News alumnus and current White House spokesman Tony Snow way back in 1998. The subject of the column? Executive privilege.
Would it surprise you that his positions on the matter seem to have shifted a wee bit since the Clinton blow job days?
Some samples:
- "...protected conversations involve predictable categories: military, diplomatic or national security secrets or law-enforcement activities. Jurists haven't found a constitutional writ for protecting damage-control meetings involving allegations of infidelity"
- "Evidently, [the President] wants to shield virtually any communications that take place within the White House compound on the theory that all such talk contributes in some way, shape or form to the continuing success and harmony of an administration. Taken to its logical extreme, that position would make it impossible for citizens to hold a chief executive accountable for anything. He would have a constitutional right to cover up.
"Chances are that the courts will hurl such a claim out, but it will take time."
Read the whole thing here.
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