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General Background

• AP: Contempt of Congress: What Is It?

   

• Harold C. Relyea and Jay R. Shampansky: Presidential Advisers’ Testimony Before Congressional Committees: An Overview (Congressional Research Service) (4/14/04)

   

• Morton Rosenberg: Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege ... History, Law, Practice and Recent Developments (9/21/99)

   

• HNN Hot Topics: The Fight Over Presidential Records

   

• David Greenberg: What Is Executive Privilege and Why Do Presidents Like to Invoke It? (12/25/01)

   

Commentary

• David E. Kaiser:"Executive Privilege"

   

• Kimberly Strassel: The U.S. attorneys controversy is about politics, not the law

   

• Frank Askin: Congress's Power To Compel

   

• John Yoo: The Democrats' attack on executive privilege shows blatant disregard for the Constitution

   

• Mark J. Rozell: A battling president and Congress should remember why we compromise

   

• Adam Cohen: Bush v. Congress ... The Looming Battle Over Executive Privilege

   

• Mark Rozell: Bush and the Case of Executive Privilege

   

• Anna K. Nelson: Testimony on presidential records (3/1/07)

   

• Rick Shenkman: When do presidents assert executive privilege? When it's in their interest

   

• Stephen Labaton: The Law Ranks Its Privileges (2/22/98)

   

• Jimmy Breslin: Condi's Lying About Executive Privilege

   

• P.M. Carpenter: Why did President Bush decide to snub his nose at Dan Burton and assert executive privilege for the first time? (11/17/01)

   

• Mark J. Rozell: President Bush's Use of Executive Privilege (1/1/02)

   

george ross mckay - 3/22/2007

At least American Presidents have a constitutional frame-work in which to use their executive privilege.
In Canada,as in the 1985/6 parliamentary questions on the Herbert Norman / Lester Pearson cover-up, ministers simply ignored the questions by Alex Kindy M.P. and when he tried again, Joe Clark made a joke of it and stone-walled the issue.
Today's Conservative back-benchers appear terrified of raising the outstanding spy riddle..."too busy' was mine's excuse!
Any Canadian readers interested in trying again in the new millenium, please comment.