Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration(washingtonpost.com)
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lowIQanon 2 points3 points4 points 6 months ago
including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials
I'd say subpoena this person but you know you'd just hear "executive privilege" a few dozen times.
snowhawk04California 1 point2 points3 points 6 months ago
Any conversation in which a participant isn't subject to the rules of privilege makes the invocation of privilege inapplicable. The last time I checked, yep, Putin was in those meetings. Privilege does not apply.
lowIQanon 1 point2 points3 points 6 months ago
The Trump administration will argue executive privilege anyway and then the Senate will go along with it totally. The House maybe not...
snowhawk04California 2 points3 points4 points 6 months ago
The Senate will have no standing in a lawsuit. This is between the White House and the House of Representatives.
lowIQanon 0 points1 point2 points 6 months ago
As the political firestorm over Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court rages, the Trump administration has decided to withhold from the Senate Judiciary Committee more than 100,000 pages of records regarding Kavanaugh's time in the George W. Bush administration.
Though President Trump has not officially invoked executive privilege over the Kavanaugh documents, the administration claims — as have many previous administrations — that a president's right to receive candid, confidential advice must be protected. Releasing George W. Bush-era internal documents that reveal Kavanaugh's advice to the president, it argues, would violate that principle. The administration, in effect, is exercising executive privilege without saying so.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-administration-is-exercising-executive-privilege-without-saying-so/2018/09/04/4301954e-b05b-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html?utm_term=.c8c44370f43a
And this one:
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeatedly refused to answer senators' questions on Tuesday about his conversations with President Trump, even though Mr. Trump had not asserted executive privilege to keep them secret. That raises questions about whether Mr. Sessions had any legal basis to stonewall Congress.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/us/politics/executive-privilege-sessions-trump.html
That's what I was talking about.