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Goose vs Gander? Not even
I'd hate to have to bargain away the right to privacy just so these two will testify.
There is a significant difference between the two situations: one involves operations of a publicly held office accountable to voters while the other involves conversations held by citizens in their private lives.
I would say the former has more of an obligation to divulge its records than the latter, unless a case can be made that the testimony of these two constitute a breach in national security. And before you laugh at the preposterous reasoning behind that claim, don't for a moment underestimate how often this excuse is used by this administration.