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Government

Mar. 28, 2007

Politics Can End Legal Storm

Forum Column - By Andrew B. Coan - The latest chapter in the U.S.-attorney imbroglio concerns the reach of executive privilege. A Stanford professor thinks the issue is best resolved far away from the courtroom.

FORUM COLUMN

By Andrew B. Coan
     
      The gloves came off in the U.S. attorneys scandal last week as the House and Senate judiciary committees voted to authorize subpoenas for Karl Rove, Harriet Miers and several other administration officials linked with last year's dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys. President Bush has been no less blunt. Insisting that he is "absolutely" willing to take the dispu...

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