I’m still obsessing about Paul Clement’s opinion on whether Bush can assert executive privilege over documents relating to the US Attorney purge. Here’s a little tidbit I find interesting.
Clement is discussing the third chunk of things Congress requested.
As usual, emptywheel is way ahead of the rest of us. She’s figuring out what they’re hiding. I read that thing by Clement and I was thinking, "What in the hell is he talking about?" But now that she mentions it, that 18 days was also the period during which they had figured out [by watching their t.v.’s and using the Google on the Internets] that they’d lost the mid-term elections. My guess would be that they were running scared. The U.S. Attorney Plan was their hope for 2008, yet the loss of the Congressional Majority made them vulnerable to exactly what is happening right now – Investigations. These "deliberations" were a time when they made a terrible [and hopefully fatal] call. As for what Clement is talking about, my aversion to legalese has me out of the running for interpretation. They’re not turning stuff over because they don’t want to, because it’s going to get them in some very hot water…
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