Power Without Limits

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Author(s) The New York Times editorial board
Source The New York Times
Date July 22, 2007
URL http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/opinion/22sun2.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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Quotes-start.png "The Bush administration, which has been pushing presidential power to new extremes, is reportedly developing an even more dangerous new theory of executive privilege. It says that if Congress holds White House officials in contempt for withholding important evidence in the United States attorney scandal, the Justice Department simply will not pursue the charges. This stance tears at the fabric of the Constitution and upends the rule of law.

Congress has a constitutional right to investigate the purge of nine United States attorneys last year. And there is no doubt that the investigation has unearthed improprieties: several administration officials have already admitted illegal or improper actions involving the politicization of the country’s chief law enforcement agency."

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This item argues for the position Executive Privilege / Congress has the right to find the Whitehouse in contempt on the topic Executive Privilege.