Can Rove still use "executive privilege" after leaving his position?

Answer 1

He and the President have already stated that he would. The same as was extended to Janet Myers after she left office.

Answer 2

Yep, executive priviledge covers anything done while Rove was an advisor to Bush.

Now the courts have ruled, that executive privildge does not prevent someone from being forced to testify in criminal matters.

They made that ruling, after Clinton twice tried to use executive privildge to prevent some of his aides testifying in criminal matters.

Some earlier had posted a link, showing how many times different presidents involked executive privildge.

Clinton had about three times more than Bush.

How soon they forget.

Answer 3

Yes. Anything that was done during his time in the Administration would be covered under Executive Privilege.

Answer 4

He says he can, but there's nothing in the Constitution that bars congress from investigating criminal behavior. Eventually someone is going to rat out Rove and the rest of these slimy characters. My advise to Rove is to get out ahead of this issue. Believe me, as we speak there's some low level munchkin in the Bush administration that kept good notes and copied a few 'classified' documents....the truth is like a dead body...eventually it floats to the surface, and when this one comes up it's going to be one smelly corpse!

Answer 5

Bush will continue to try and use it to cover him.

whether or not congress will let the slime covered ilk get away or not remains to be seen; probably he will walk seeing as how the libs in congress have proved to be spineless against the cons so far.

Answer 6

Actually he probably left because he was about to be in a sling and leaving helped escape the noose - so to speak.