18 July 2008
If there was nothing to hide, the White House would not continue to block attempts to get internal FBI reports about the Valerie Plame Wilson CIA leak case. Interviews of Vice President Cheney and other top officials are said to be protected by executive privilege. A lot of sneaky things are covered up by that “privilege.” The conflict between Bush and the House Government Reform Committee continues to escalate. Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was convicted for perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI. He took the fall for the others who are hiding behind executive privilege. Libby’s prison sentence was commuted by Bush.
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey refuses to be subpoenaed declaring that releasing documents could imperil future Justice Department probes. I think that the Justice Department itself needs looking into. It was Mukasey’s advice that made Bush decide to invoke the privilege. The Wilson’s will pursue a civil lawsuit against the government. Since 2001, the Bush administration has invoked executive privilege four times. The House voted to hold former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten in contempt of Congress for not providing testimony and documents related to firings of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006. Most recently the EPA has been asked to testify about public health risks associated with global warming, the records of which, the administration will not release. All this smells of a continuing cover-up.
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