Is sort of like Popes in the old days granting absolution for all past and future sins?
While the GOP might criticize the the improper use of executive privilege, they will not do anything about it.
On Wednesday, White House officials said that the phone calls with the counsel’s office were standard procedure followed by past administrations in dealings with Congress.
Could someone please explain to me how these people, who have done everything possible, both intentionally, on ideological grounds, and simply by their rampant incompetence, criminality and buffoonery, to cut themselves off from every conceivable source of institutional knowledge about how past presidents have handled anything at all, could possibly know this?
Everything they say is a lie, but their claim to have precedent on their side just jumps out at me when I know they can’t possibly know anything about precedent.
Trump is acting like a hysterical guilty person at the center of a conspiracy that he knows is unraveling. AG Sessions, DNS Coates and NSA Director Roberts all claimed the same non-valid reason for protecting the Swamp Draining presidential campaigner from public scrutiny. It is another aspect of the Trump Admin obstruction of justice.
I do not believe there is any such thing as “executive privilege.” They work for us and we are entitled to know what they are doing since they work for us.
I call utter bullshit on this and I can’t’ believe they let them get away with it to the extent they do.