President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from two former aides about the firings of federal prosecutors.
This was the Nixon gambit back in the day of Watergate (probably under the advice of Fred Fielding, who is now advising Bush). Sirica's response was one of the memorable quotations from the whole Watergate saga: "Executive privilege is executive poppycock!" Of course Watergate was also a time when the Judiciary had a bit more balance to it and the reason for investigation did not involve upsetting that balance!
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