Tuesday Morning News Roundup It appears that Karl Rove will be testifying on Capitol Hill about the nine fired US attorneys. Executive privilege will not cover Mr. Rove anymore. Rove’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, has suggested that Karl Rove will not take the fifth when testifying before Congress, ...

Republican Senator Howard Baker once asked "What did the President know and when did he know it?" when it became clear that then-President Nixon was involved in the Watergate scandal. Back then Republicans were about small government, fiscal responsibility, and the rule of law. Back then Democrats w...

Pres. Obama took another step yesterday toward reversing the extreme secrecy of the Bush years: He initiated a new process that will make it much harder for a president — any president — to invoke executive privilege in order to block Americans’ access to government documents: On h...

American presidents and their staff work for the American people, they are not monarchs with an inner court of priviliged nobles. President Obama has reminded all his predecessors of that simple fact, living up to a campaign promise to "nullify attempts to make the timely release of presidentia...

Bush invoked executive privilege to block the Justice Department from providing a House panel with material about Cheney’s knowledge of the leak of a C.I.A. officer’s identity....

Straight off the AP wire from 6:29pm EDT: President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration's leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in 2003. The House Oversig...

She’s back, pimpin’ out notable new releases to place on your radar! SISTER PELAGIA AND THE BLACK MONK by Boris Akunin — In the middle of the night, a disheveled and badly frightened monk arrives at the doorstep of Bishop Mitrofanii, crying: “Something’s wrong at the Hermitage!â€� ...

Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL), one of Floida's few Patriotic Politicians. This is in response to George W Bush's personal attorney, Michael Mukasey. His attitude IS rubbing off on his fellow-congressmen. Will it be too little, too late? Will it be before the Cabal takes up residence in Paraguay? ...

as an appropriate follow-on to the previous post (or perhaps, more accurately, a good lead-in), glenn has this to say... [W]e have a perfect oligarchical system in which, literally, our most powerful and well-connected elite are free to break the law with impunity, exempt from any consequences. Whil...