Citing itself. Citing memos from that legal office over the decades. And chairman nadler points out that one of the Justice Department rules that is completely ignored in that memo is he says the Justice Departments own be longstanding policy is that executive privilege should not be invoked to conceal evidence of wrongdoing or criminality on the part of executive officers. Amazing how that would have been left out of that memo today. Well, and you know, for the white house to be asserting that people should defy subpoenas in the abstract because the white house believes or they can get the office of Legal Counsel to state or the president s lawyers aver something is true is one thing. But when the subpoena goes to an individual loss no longer a Government Official and that individual is held liable for all the consequences that come from defying a subpoena, just putting exclamation points on your orders doesnt necessarily make it any more likely that person is going to decide its in t
And the Justice Department said thats okay because he has complete immunity from any kind of congressional subpoena. He points out that memo from the Justice Department isnt really citing case law so much as citing itself. Citing memos from that legal office over the decades. And chairman nadler points out that one of the Justice Department rules that is completely ignored in that memo is he says the Justice Departments own be longstanding policy is that executive privilege should not be invoked to conceal evidence of wrongdoing or criminality on the part of executive officers. Amazing how that would have been left out of that memo today. Well, and you know, for the white house to be asserting that people should defy subpoenas in the abstract because the white house believes or they can get the office of Legal Counsel to state or the president s lawyers aver something is true is one thing. But when the subpoena goes to an individual loss no longer a Government Official and that individ