Executive What?
Apr 17th, 2007 at 6:44 pm by Susie
Hard to believe they have the balls to claim executive privilege on this, but yes, they do:
The White House and Democrats in Congress are both pushing for emails kept by the Republican National Committee, and the RNC is caught in the middle.
The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), wants to get its hands on those RNC-issued email accounts used by Karl Rove and other White House personnel. Congressional investigators want to know about Rove’s and his deputy’s involvement in the U.S. attorney firings. But the White House insists that it review the emails first, before handing anything over to Democrats. Last week, Conyers warned the RNC not to do that, saying that it would be “an unjustified delay” and “potentially… an obstruction of our investigation.”
And today, in a letter to the RNC, the White House made their position clear: you have to give them to us first. There “exists a clear and indisputable Executive Branch interest” in the emails on the RNC-issued accounts, wrote Emmet Flood, Special Counsel to the President.
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(peers condescendlingly over his wire- rimmed reading glasses) That would be venerable the doctrine of Executive Branch Interest” first articulated by the revered Justice Churchy LaFemme in Thing One v. Thing Two and a cornerstone of our constitutional system never since.