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Beau789010 months, 3 weeks ago

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Snubbing a Congressional subpoena under the guise of "executive privilege" for White House staffers was an absurd rationalization. Rove's strategy of asking Obama to reaffirm Bush's use of executive privilege seems a fairly transparent attempt to divide the public and show that Obama isn't nearly as bipartisan as he claims.

With a reasonable explanation of the precedence of upholding Congressional authority to investigate members of the executive branch, Obama should be able to invalidate such an argument. And Obama has already shown a desire to restore Constitutional checks and balances between branches of government, even at the expense of some of the executive branch power Bush usurped.

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