The Long and Winding Rove
This entry was posted on Friday, July 11th, 2008 at 10:38 am by Matt Davies.
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Not to get into legal minutiae, but there really is such a thing as executive privilege – they are allowed to have confidential communications among themselves without the chilling effect that their meetings may become public.
Nobody is disputing that, J.
For instance, Dick Cheney's secret meetings with energy companies (wherein we can only surmise he colluded to assist in gutting clean air rules and other barriers to their collective profits) were, while controversial and a little sleazy, perfectly legal.
However, was executive privilege designed to protect a presidential advisor from legal proceedings that might implicate him in criminal activity? Rove says this is political, but the activities he is being investigated over at the DOJ and in Alabama ("Scott Stantis territory") are precisely about his placing politics above law.
Regardless of whether or not his time on the stand before Congress were ever to be useful, informative or truthful—even IF Rove is ever proven justified in his denial to testify (and I pray, no, never), this would not shield or excuse him from the "formality" of appearing before Congress in response their subpoena.