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Crabby Appleton

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Thu Nov-08-07 08:30 PM
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20. Not true. In the case United States V. Nixon (1974)

SCOTUS recognized the likely validity (i.e. court deference) to a claim of executive privilege for Article II presidential powers (specifically military and diplomatic "secrets") as opposed to a claim of absolute executive privilege asserted by Nixon especially as related to non-military, non-diplomatic issues involved in Watergate related matters. Considering most of the clamor for impeachment involves issues of Article II powers involving military, diplomatic, national security, etc; Executive privilege could be successfully asserted in those matters.

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