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Breaking: Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak 16 Jul 2008
President Bush has asserted executive privilege to protect information
that a House panel has subpoenaed on the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's
identity, the White House said Wednesday. A House committee chairman, meanwhile,
held off on a contempt citation of Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who sought
the privilege claim, as a courtesy to lawmakers not present. Rep. Henry
Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, rejected Mukasey's suggestion
that Vice President Dick Cheney's FBI interview on the subject should be
protected by the privilege claim.
President Bush has asserted executive privilege to protect information
that a House panel has subpoenaed on the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's
identity, the White House said Wednesday. A House committee chairman, meanwhile,
held off on a contempt citation of Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who sought
the privilege claim, as a courtesy to lawmakers not present. Rep. Henry
Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, rejected Mukasey's suggestion
that Vice President Dick Cheney's FBI interview on the subject should be
protected by the privilege claim.
Mukasey Claims Executive Privilege 16 Jul 2008 Attorney
General Michael Mukasey pre-empted a contempt of Congress vote by the House
oversight committee this morning by claiming executive privilege. Henry A.
Waxman's House oversight committee subpoenaed Mukasey to issue a ton of
documents related to the Valerie Plame Wilson scandal, including the interview
special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had with Dick Cheney. The oversight
committee has spent a year trying to get its hands on interviews Fitzgerald had
with Cheney and President George W. Bush about what Waxman calls "the
despicable outing of Ms. Wilson." Waxman called the executive privilege claim
"ludicrous."