Schumer: ‘We Will Get To The Bottom Of This While Bush Is Still President’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/19/schumer-privilege/


Schumer: ‘We Will Get To The Bottom Of This While Bush Is Still President’

In advance of today’s hearings with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned the White House that it cannot avoid congressional oversight by using executive privilege to run out the clock.

“When privilege has been claimed in these kinds of cases, it has taken months not years” to resolve, Schumer said at a press conference. “So those in the White House who think that they can somehow sort of outlast this, as the courts debate privilege, I think are mistaken. We will get to the bottom of this while President Bush is still president.” Watch it at link:

Transcript:

I would say this, that if you look at the case of privilege that the White House is making is remarkably flimsy, and in the past at least, when privilege has been claimed in these kinds of cases, it has taken months not years, so those in the White House who think that they can somehow sort of outlast this as the courts debate privilege I think are mistaken. We will get to the bottom of this while President Bush is still president.

[Skink]

1. That would take a hearing like this everyday for years.

[Demeter]

2. 10 Hearings Every Day for Years

All those little Bushbots, busy little badgers, digging holes in the government night and day: just hitting the highlights would take longer than we have. Throw them in jail to rot, and let God sort them out. We have a brand new facility in Guantanamo--the occupants are ready to move out....

[ClassWarrior]

3. Next time maybe it'd be best to read the post...

...before you comment.

:rofl:

NGU.

[truedelphi]

4. I hope that he is right n/t