This entry was posted on 6/28/2007 4:42 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
Back to the grind. Bus has decided that he can use "executive privilege" to conceal the reasons 8 U.S. attorneys were fired last year.
Not that this is a surprise - George W. Bush seems to believe that the presidency allows him to do whatever he wants, that has been plain for a long time; although I do think the media is being a little naive in acting like he's the first president since Nixon to use the power. Every president has used it, to greater or lesser degrees - Bush is just being more flagrant about it than most.
Not that I believe this power is completely undeserved - there are certain cases where the president absolutely should not release information to the general public, but those almost invariably have to deal with national security, and that's not a concern here. By any measure, these firings were politically motivated, and politicking is no reason to keep information from the public, especially when good people were fired - in the middle of a president's second term - for no real reason. There is no logical excuse for the exercise of executive privilege in this instance, and the president should be ashamed. (Not that that will stop him, either.)
