According to a letter from White House lawyer Bob Bauer to Senator Jeff Sessions, there may be a possibility of the White House claiming executive privilege regarding memos that Supreme Coutrt nominee (and Dick Morris look-a-like winner) Elena Kagan wrote when she was in the Clinton White House. Or there is the possibility that the White House could play the old trick of dumping them on the Judiciary Committee the day before the confirmation hearings begin (Hat tip to Hot Air).
“President Obama does not intend to assert executive privilege over any of the documents requested by the Committee,” according to a letter dated June 1 from Bauer. “Of course, President Clinton also has an interest in these records, and his representative is reviewing them now.”
Reasons? National security, personal privacy or preserving them for Freedom of Information requests.
Personal privacy? Is there a memo from Kagan to Clinton about Monica Lewinsky that Bubba might not want released?
"I know about you and Ms Lewinsky."
"I saw what was on Nancy Hernreich's desk."
But I am sure that the most transparent White House in history will do the right thing. After all, anybody can see that the above picture is really of Dick Morris.
Having publicly stated that Anita Hill's testimony was entirely irrelevant to Clarence Thomas's fitness to serve as a Supreme Court justice (he should have been rejected because he didn't know the law -- as he backhandedly admitted in his autobiography), I can in good conscience say that when Ms. Kagan knew what about Monica Lewinsky, if she did, is entirely irrelevant to her fitness to serve as a Supreme Court justice.
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ReplyDeleteOK, I agree, and those "memos" I quoted were in jest.
Just the same, it would be interesting if Clinton wanted to ........