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"Creative is a good word to describe it," said Mark Rozell, another executive-privilege expert who is a professor at George Mason University's School of Public Policy, about the attorney general's contention. "This is really an argument to protect the White House's own political interests and save it from embarrassment."

"Closing the Door", Newsweek, 7/16/08

Today, the Oversight committee released two draft reports the Committee plans to consider next week. The first is a bipartisan report finding that President Bush made a "legally unprecedented and an inappropriate use of executive privilege" in directing Attorney General Mukasey to withhold Special Counsel Fitzgerald's interview of Vice President Cheney from the Committee:

The letter:

October 9, 2008

The Honorable George W. Bush

The President of the United States

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania, Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

"Just as the President and Congress worked together in recent weeks on an economic rescue plan to help bring stability to our financial markets, we must now take additional action and pass a jobs creation and economic recovery stimulus plan," Pelosi said.

The October 13 forum, to be held in the Speaker's office in the Capitol, will help Congress develop an economic recovery plan that will create jobs by rebuilding our roads, bridges and highways, prevent cuts to vital government services such as health, education, and public safety, extend unemployment benefits, and help families cope with rising food costs.