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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:28:11 -0500
From: "James Rooney" <jamesroo () microsoft com> To: <farber () cis upenn edu> Just one more thing the Bush administration is hiding. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/12/13/privilege/index.html President Bush invoked executive privilege for the first time Thursday to keep Congress from seeing documents of prosecutors' decision-making in cases ranging from a decades-old Boston murder to the Clinton-era fund-raising probe. The administration informed a House committee of the decision prior to a congressional hearing on the Boston case involving the FBI's handling of informants. In a memo to Attorney General John Ashcroft, the president explained his decision. "It is my decision that you should not release these documents or otherwise make them available to the committee," Bush wrote in the memo obtained by AP. "I have decided to assert executive privilege with respect to the documents."
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