Should executive privilege apply to White House aides?

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Barack Obama

Executive privilege should not apply to White House aides.

"This blanket notion that you can't subpoena White House aides where there's evidence of wrongdoing is completely misguided"
6/27/2008 2:51:24 PM

Condoleezza Rice

Executive privilege should apply to White House aides.

"The president's staff has simply not been subject to congressional testimony."
5/15/2008 5:00:52 PM

Richard Nixon

Executive privilege should apply to White House aides.

"All Communication With Aides Were Privileged"
9/24/2007 4:27:45 PM

Sheldon Whitehouse

Executive privilege should not apply to White House aides.

"The argument gets very thin"
9/17/2007 10:08:18 PM

Arlen Specter

Executive privilege should not apply to White House aides.

"Congressional oversight has the better of the argument."
9/11/2007 4:36:14 AM

Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA)

Executive privilege should not apply to White House aides.

"Those claims are not legally valid"
9/10/2007 1:37:28 PM

Fred F. Fielding

Executive privilege should apply to White House aides.

"Intended To Protect Fundamental Interest Of The Presidency"
9/10/2007 1:37:15 PM

Chris Cannon (R-UT)

Executive privilege should apply to White House aides.

President "appropriately decided to protect the internal deliberations of his staff"
9/10/2007 1:37:03 PM

Wall Street Journal

Executive privilege should apply to White House aides.

"That privilege seems especially strong in the U.S. attorneys case."
9/10/2007 1:36:53 PM

US Department of Justice

Executive privilege should apply to White House aides.

"Broadly worded legal opinion"
9/10/2007 1:36:40 PM

Benjamin L. Cardin

Executive privilege should not apply to White House aides.

Cardin condemns refusal
9/10/2007 1:36:29 PM

The New York Times

Executive privilege should not apply to White House aides.

"Bush Can Hardly Argue He Has Right To Conceal Aides Conversations and Emails"
9/10/2007 1:36:00 PM

John Conyers, Jr.

Executive privilege should not apply to White House aides.

Conyers Wants To Enforce Subpoenas Blocked By Bush
9/10/2007 1:19:09 PM

Patrick Leahy

Executive privilege should not apply to White House aides.

Leahy and Conyers Want To Enforce Subpoenas Bush Has Blocked
9/10/2007 1:19:00 PM

Orrin Hatch

Executive privilege should apply to White House aides.

Hatch Defends White House Decision
9/10/2007 1:18:42 PM

Charles E. Schumer

Executive privilege should not apply to White House aides.

Schumer leads the fight
9/10/2007 1:17:58 PM

George W. Bush

Executive privilege should apply to White House aides.

Bush Made It Apply Recently
9/9/2007 10:18:09 AM