Executive Privilege

Judiciary Panel to Consider Privilege Claims Tomorrow

July 11, 2007 -- ( Washington, DC) - Today, an attorney for former White House Counsel Harriet Miers rescinded his prior confirmation that Ms. Miers would attend the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on Thursday in response to a subpoena and would assert executive privilege to certain questions posed by the committee, as directed by the president.    » read more »

July 9, 2007 -- "Today, House Judiciary Chairman Conyers and I received another letter from the White House Counsel Fred Fielding responding to duly authorized subpoenas with a blanket assertion of executive privilege. I had hoped the Judiciary Committees’ subpoenas would be met with compliance. Instead, they have been met -- yet again -- with Nixonian stonewalling that reveals this White House’s disdain for our system of checks and balances.    » read more »

WASHINGTON (Monday, July 9) – The White House sent a letter today to Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) reiterating its assertion of executive privilege in response to congressional subpoenas, but declining to provide a complete basis for its assertion. Below is Chairman Leahy’s comment on the letter.    » read more »

Take Next Steps To Enforce Congressional Subpoenas

WASHINGTON (Friday, June 29) -- Today, Senate and House Judiciary Chairmen Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) sent a letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding, responding to the President's executive privilege assertion over documents relating to the US Attorney investigation. Leahy and Conyers reiterated their concern that the President's sweeping assertion was unprecedented.    » read more »

6/28/2007 -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) Released the Following Statement in Response to the President's Assertion of Executive Privilege in Response to the Committee's June 13 Subpoena for Documents:

"The president's response to our subpoena shows an appalling disregard for the right of the people to know what is going on in their government.

The executive privilege assertion is unprecedented in its breadth and scope, and even includes documents that the administration previously offered to provide as part of their 'take it or leave it' proposal.    » read more »

June 28, 2007 -- MR. FRATTO: This is Tony Fratto, Deputy Press Secretary at the White House. This is, as the operator said, a senior administration official call. So that's your sourcing. I'll turn the phone over to my colleague. He'll make some opening remarks, and then we will open it up to questions.    » read more »