he have anything to hide?
2007-06-28 11:14:18 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
If you have nothing to hide...you have nothing to fear. Sound familiar? I think we should send him to Gitmo and let the same methods he endorsed for "collecting" information, be used upon him. Let's help speed up the process, if the rule of law doesn't apply to him, why should it protect him?
2007-06-28 11:26:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Subpoenaed documents enforce the built in checks and balances of government. Thomas Jefferson and others' genuis was based on personal experience with tyranny. This administration has become the King George III of our time and it is time for them to go.
Edit: These same republicans that believed it was fine for congress to subpoena Clinton, now hypocritically claim constitutional violations for the same involving Bush.
2007-06-28 18:24:46 · answer #2 · answered by David M 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I saw the panel question the Deputy Attorney General for the second time on CNN. It was very clear that the majority of the panel members were mental midgets whose only purpose was to try and invent some foul intent that never existed. I just about fell out of my chair when one of the men asking questions pulled the race card and tried to claim that the Deputy Attorney General should have, the night before his original testimony, concentrated more of his briefing review on an article related to minority voting issues rather than on what congress was going to grill him on the next day! The guy made such an *** out of himself that his only way to dig out afterward was to suggest that they should work on the problem together.
I wouldn't give them anything either. There is no basis for this witch hunt. There is no evidence of any wrong doing. There are only fools that are ignoring the job they were elected to do and spending their time playing games like little kids.
It must be easier to play point the finger than to solve the immigration crisis.
Edit:
For the moron above... It was George W. Bush who used his authority to keep Congress out of Clintons documents!
2007-06-28 18:29:43 · answer #3 · answered by Automation Wizard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it's because since about 1975 the Executive Branch has been losing power to the Legislative Branch, and he's trying to restore balance. At least, this is a theory of 2-3 key presidential historians.
2007-06-28 19:15:56 · answer #4 · answered by jdkilp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the subpoenaed documents violate the separation of powers and executive privilege.
2007-06-28 18:16:46 · answer #5 · answered by GOPneedsarealconservative 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well, all of the things that you have to hide from the public you can multiply about 1000 times cause he has the whole country's secrets to deal with. Your secrets aren't squat in comparison.
2007-06-28 18:54:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How come the Judiciary Committee went from firing attorneys to wire tapping? Why don't they finish the job they were assembled for before going after a new target?
2007-06-28 18:16:48 · answer #7 · answered by civil_av8r 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probally because Congress has no legal right to subpoena them in the first place.
Separation of powers is in the constitution.
2007-06-28 18:19:55 · answer #8 · answered by jeeper_peeper321 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Of course. All of the top people in the government have documents that they do not want uncovered. I don't feel like the public needs to know everything.(ie what goes on at Area 51) The president, vp, CIA, FBI, etc. have plenty that they do not want made public and I don't think that we want to know everything that goes on. (For our own good)
2007-06-28 18:18:20 · answer #9 · answered by Colette B 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe it's a matter of separation of powers. He doesn't want to relinquish Presidential prerogatives to Congress.
2007-06-28 18:46:33 · answer #10 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋