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"But Bush says they are immune from such subpoenas, arguing that Congress can't force them to testify or turn over documents.
"U.S. District Judge John Bates, who was appointed to the bench by Bush, issued a 93-page opinion that strongly rejected the administration's legal arguments. He noted that the executive branch could not point to a single case in which courts held that White House aides were immune from congressional subpoenas.
"That simple yet critical fact bears repeating: the asserted absolute immunity claim here is entirely unsupported by existing case law," Bates wrote."
The things the Bush administration has done and how they did them will come out, eventually...
When Clinton tried to use executive privilege, a lesser claim, with legal standing (and related to his lawyer, so it at least made some sense) there was a vast sloganeering campaign about how "no one is above the law." We don't hear that now. I really wonder if people that felt Bill Clinton
wasn't above the law, think that George W. Bush is?
If there were Democrats out their who could play stupid people as well as Republicans have in the past, Bush would mark the end of the Republican party.
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