Against Claims of Executive Privilege, a Committee Comes Up Dry
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Yesterday's Senate testimony by former White House political director Sara Taylor was a watershed.
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Many lawmakers are uneasy about creating a powerful intelligence director.
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A House committee alleged that the State Departmentâs inspector general blocked fraud investigations.
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Members of a Senate panel today told Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker that they had doubts about the progress they had reported in testimony yesterday.
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Former White House aide Sara M. Taylor will refuse to testify today about matters President Bush has deemed shielded by executive privilege, but she will offer to respond to other questions from senators that do not breach White House confidentiality, her attorney said yesterday.
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies.
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President Bush asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers' demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors
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President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from former White House aides Sara Taylor and Harriet Miers.
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With the former White House Counsel defying Congress, the battle over executive privilege is heating up
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Despite an overwhelming House vote last month to revive the Iraq Study Group, the White House has blocked reconvening the bipartisan panel to provide a second independent assessment of the military and political situation in Iraq, said several sources involved in the panel's December 2006 report.
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White House challenges Congressional report casting doubt on the success of the 'surge' strategy.
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WASHINGTON - Even as congressional leaders draf
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Bolstered by a House Ethics Committee finding that parts of a complaint filed against him were exaggerated, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay lashed out Friday against
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Top military lawyers said that some provisions would not withstand legal scrutiny or do enough to repair the nationÂs tarnished reputation.
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A member of a congressional panel investigating performance-enhancing drugs in baseball believes there's little to be gained by having players testify at next month's hearings.
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The tactic is a result of a 'press for presidential power,' some analysts say. But it's too early to tell whether the use of pro forma sessions will mean no more recess appointments by the president.
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President Bush invoked executive privilege today to deny requests for testimony about the firings of prosecutors.