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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:00 AM

The president's oh-so-noble reliance on "executive privilege"

Glenn Greenwald

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  • Tuesday, March 20, 2007 04:07 PM

    And Lest We Forget

    William Safire, on Clinton's play for executive privilege (June 4, 1998):

    The Supremes will not have to decide President Clinton's claim of (2) executive privilege to shield his P.R. aide Sidney Blumenthal because when Starr went eyeball-to-eyeball with the White House on this, Clinton blinked. I think the President knew this claim on a matter unrelated to national security was a loser all along, but made it in lower court to run down the clock. Smart; it bought him four months.

    Invictus

    —Invictus

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