Obama criticized Bush for trying to ‘hide’ behind executive privilege

Amie Parnes
The Hill
June 20, 2012

President Obama criticized former President George W. Bush for trying to “hide” behind executive privilege in 2007, after the Bush administration refused to turn over subpoenaed documents over the controversial firings of nine U.S. attorneys.

In an interview on CNN’s Larry King Live, Obama said there’s been “a tendency on the part of this administration to try to hide behind exec privilege every time there’s something a little shaky that’s taking place.”

“I think the administration would be best served by coming clean on this,” Obama said, after Bush claimed executive privilege on the issue.”

Full article here

This article was posted: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 9:01 am

---

---

---

---

Infowars.com Videos:

Comment on this article

Comments are closed.