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Originally posted by bilmore
Well, it is a big whoop. Would you want to be the cited wimp for the next twenty years when some panel wants to compel testimony from a cabinet member and tells the court "We must have that power, there's precedent, Condi came when ordered!"?
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So are you ignoring or distinguishing the several times when executive appointees have testified after being called before legislative bodies (most notably Clinton's NSA testifying before a senate committee in 1997)?
And I still fail to understand her testifying before a closed session of the committee somehow preserves the privilege to not testify before an open session. I thought privilege had to do with the information provided, not the circumstances of its provision. But I confess that my separation of powers chops have not been exercised of late, so be gentle if I'm more dense than usual here.
