executive privilege

Despite the later focus on foreign policy, the first question was about the President's use of executive privilege.

The last President to claim executive privilege did it in open court.

How much is Bush within his rights to assert executive privilege?

But battles over executive privilege are not new to the former governor.

We did not have one instance in which the President invoked executive privilege.

The Bush administration is trying to hide behind the doctrine of "executive privilege."

What's the use of having executive privilege if you don't abuse it now and then?

In 1996, he invoked executive privilege three times for material sought by Congress.

"We believe he could take her into protective custody or otherwise use his executive privileges."

Executive privilege cannot be used to conceal a crime or a possible wrongdoing.

The issue of when a President may invoke executive privilege has a long but vague legal history.

Executive privilege is one of the most ambiguous concepts in constitutional law.

Executive privilege should not protect 30-year-old records of discussion by a President and his advisers.

Because no order required their production, it was never necessary to assert executive privilege to protect them.

But the Administration also asserted, for the first time, that the material was protected by executive privilege.

But the case did make clear that executive privilege is not absolute and must yield in the face of at least some other important interests.

President Clinton invoked executive privilege in refusing to hand over the document.

But you can't measure it the old way, by looking for reflections of executive privilege.

The administration raised no issues of executive privilege when it came to documents sought by investigators.

"If the only thing coming out of Washington is the confrontation on executive privilege, that's a moral hazard."

As we have said, the district court's rejection of the executive privilege claim has not been appealed.

Furthermore, the President has not claimed executive privilege in connection with our request.

Presidential secrecy can be justified with either claims of national security or executive privilege.

I have always valued the separation of powers, and particularly with respect to executive privilege.

The executive privilege claim in this case also fails at a more basic and threshold point.