I wonder what any Republicans might have said in the past about Executive privilege

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On March 21, 1998, President Bill Clinton unsuccessfully invoked executive privilege and attorney-client privilege in an attempt to prevent Special Investigator Kenneth Starr from asking his deputy counsel Bruce R. Lindsey and his communications adviser Sidney Blumenthal, as well as other top White House officials about conversations regarding the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said Clinton should stop the fight over executive privilege. 'I think he should give up that contest,' Lott told reporters Monday. 'And I think he should be forthcoming. He should give us more information, not less.'" -- CNN, 6/1/98
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Senator Orrin Hatch

"It's very important that we get to the bottom of this...This is no small thing, and been slowed down every step of the way by the refusal to give subpoenaed documents, by continual assertions of executive privilege, and all kinds of ... So I have to say, we've got to get to these facts, we've got to get to the the bottom of it, and, hopefully, they'll clear the president. But in all honesty, it doesn't look like they will." -- Orrin Hatch on Meet the Press, 2/1/98
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House Majority Whip Tom Delay

House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) accused President Clinton yesterday of taking "indecent liberties with the concept of executive privilege" and announced that he will introduce legislation next week intended to impose new limits on the presidential power.

In a strongly worded floor speech intended to draw attention away from internal Republican squabbling to Clinton's legal troubles, DeLay accused the president of seeking to cover up the truth by invoking executive privilege in the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation and mocked House Democrats for their silence on the issue.

"The president does not have the divine right of a king," DeLay said, echoing a line used recently by House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). "He must follow the law, even if it may sometimes be uncomfortable for him." CNN.com, 7/8/98
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Fox News 

"Senator Torricelli, the president has from the very beginning pledged to cooperate with the investigation, said he wants to get the truth out sooner rather than later. Would you define claims of executive privilege as cooperation? . . . But aren't claims of executive privilege usually reserved for national security matters -- in particular, matters of state secrets and foreign affairs?" -- Paul Gigot, Fox News, March 8, 1998
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The Capital Gang

"Let me say, Mark, I think Newt Gingrich delivered a really good speech...He says there are two principles involved, the public's right to know, because secrecy has so benefited Bill Clinton, and second, no one is above the law. Now, if the public increasingly sees this scandal about their right to know, so much for executive privilege and Secret Service privilege, and no one is above the law, Bill Clinton's in a lot of trouble." -- Kate O'Beirne, The Capital Gang, May 2, 1998

[SoFlaJet]

1. all those RW bots

all better remember what it was like for us the past 6 and 1/2 years when they try and cite the same bullshit they did in those quotes.Say nothing-give them the same.

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2. It's almost too easy.

K & R!:kick: