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I guess my question remains. Does executive privilege apply if the question is asked if a conversation has been had? I know it can apply regarding the conversation itself in many instances. But would there be a privilege that a conversation even took place?
If he evoked it when asked this question then yes it would apply. His conversations with the President is private.
A lot of it is how they asked the question. I would guess even knowing if the conversation took place is EP from what I saw on the questions today.
It can. Thats the complicated thing. Its like asking if a classified project exists. Even saying if it exists gives information. And the idea here is that the presidents need to be able to get information even if the information might be unpopular. So even knowing if advisors had a specific conversation can cause issues with advisors being willing to provide it.
Lets say you want to talk about the child separation policy with the president. Do you REALLY want to do that if you have to answer questions about if you had talked to him about it?
Trumps administration has taken it to obscene levels that no one ever expected a rational government to do though, but its a complex topic.
Agree it's a complicated thing & is complicated further by an administration with complex conflicts of interest issues existent, interrelated & emergent from day 1:
A claim of executive privilege would have to be made by Trump himself. Whittaker can't do it for him.
That didn't stop Granny Sessions from repeatedly refusing to answer question before the Senate by claiming the Trump Creature might possibly someday maybe want to claim executive privilege. And of course, the treasonous scum in the Republican Party let him do it.
I'm watching the Whittaker hearing and have a question about invoking executive privilege. I'm a bit confused and hope maybe someone here can answer my question.
I understand invoking this privilege when asked about disclosing the content of conversations Whittaker may have had with Trump. But is being asked if a conversation occurred, not what the conversation was, considered enough to invoke the privilege?
Obama declared Executive Privilege ALL info about his gun selling program to Mexican drug dealers and REFUSED to let his AG testify before Congress, so I guess this one is OK also.
That's not true at all. Clinton claimed executive privilege during the Lewinsky scandal, and lost because blowjobs do not pertain to national security. Some Bush aides were held in contempt of Congress over it, but that's to be expected, because Republicans don't care about the law or the Constitution. But the point is, no - it's not true that every conversation between a President and his staff is off-limits, and it's never been true.
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