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Originally posted by fuzyfuzer
secrecy is a part of the government and this is not the clinton era any more Bush belives and pushes honor. this means not telling the press to him. the article was right the supreme court should have no pwer over the executive branch.
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Well, you should research this case a little more. Bush is NOT claiming "executive privilege", which is an executive right. Bush is basically claiming that the courts have no right to order him to produce any documents, ever.
This case has parallels in the Clinton era and the Watergate trials. If you like Bush, then ask yourself this: would you like Clinton or Nixon to have been able to say, on any given issue, "sorry, that was a private meeting, I won't answer that."
NPR has a program that explained the issue very well. While there may be an executive privilege issue here had Bush claimed it, that's not what all this is about. This is about the administration claiming the power to arbitrarily classify things as private just because they said so.
An open government is a less corrupt government, I think.