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White House Denies Request for Documents in Ex-NFL Player's Death
By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 14, 2007; A03

The White House has refused to give Congress documents about the death of former NFL player Pat Tillman, with White House counsel Fred F. Fielding saying that certain papers relating to discussion of the friendly-fire shooting "implicate Executive Branch confidentiality interests."

Reps. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) and Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), the leading members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, objected to the refusal yesterday in letters to the White House and the Defense Department.

Notice it's not national security interests that are at risk. It's Executive Branch confidentiality interests that are "implicated".

I have decided that Bush's excuse for all this...that if his advisors thught their advise would be attributed to them, they wouldn't give their honest advice...is the major reason this "executive privilege" crap is crap.

If the advisors fear for the public finding out what they advised, the odds are they are giving known to be evil advice. Or being asked known to be evil questions. Or how to achieve known to be evil goals.

There is nothing this regime can share without incriminating itself. And because the only option to discipline a crazed president it is "off the table," the rest of this year and all of next year will be one extended "fuck you"

...from Cheney.