Despite the later focus on foreign policy, the first question was about the President's use of executive privilege.
What's the use of having executive privilege if you don't abuse it now and then?
But battles over executive privilege are not new to the former governor.
But you can't measure it the old way, by looking for reflections of executive privilege.
Executive privilege should not protect 30-year-old records of discussion by a President and his advisers.
But the Administration also asserted, for the first time, that the material was protected by executive privilege.
"We believe he could take her into protective custody or otherwise use his executive privileges."
But the case did make clear that executive privilege is not absolute and must yield in the face of at least some other important interests.
Executive privilege is one of the most ambiguous concepts in constitutional law.
"If the only thing coming out of Washington is the confrontation on executive privilege, that's a moral hazard."
Vollmer claimed executive privilege in declining to answer some questions.
President Clinton invoked executive privilege in refusing to hand over the document.
But executive privilege is a serious issue, and there are private things in there that can't be let out.
"It is wronger for a lawyer paid by the people to use the claim of 'executive privilege.' "
We did not have one instance in which the President invoked executive privilege.
Over and over again, she cited privacy while her husband claimed executive privilege.
Mr. Clinton asserted executive privilege over the records that led him to release the prisoners.
The Clinton administration invoked executive privilege on fourteen occasions.
The Bush administration invoked executive privilege on six occasions.
Once executive privilege is asserted, coequal branches of the Government are set on a collision course.
