Bush is Bluffing: The Farce of 'Executive Privilege'

By Eric Weiner, NPR Online
Posted on July 2, 2007, Printed on July 2, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/55718/

President Dwight Eisenhower was the first president to coin the phrase "executive privilege," but not the first to invoke its principle: namely, that a president has the right to withhold certain information from Congress, the courts or anyone else — even when faced with a subpoena. Executive privilege, though, is a murky and mysterious concept. Here, an attempt to clarify the murk.