There you go again
More news of the Obama administration acting to strengthen presidential privilege today. They are actually delaying Karl Rove from testifying before Congress, in the case of the allegedly politically-motivated firings of nine US attorneys.
Read that again: the Obama camp, riding to Karl Rove's rescue. Because now, the current president and the former president are on the same side, when it comes to presidential secrecy.
"The president is very sympathetic to those who want to find out what happened," [White House Counsel Gregory] Craig told The Washington Post. "But he is also mindful as president of the United States not to do anything that would undermine or weaken the institution of the presidency. So, for that reason, he is urging both sides of this to settle."
Settle? He wants Rove to be able to negotiate what he will and won't say about subverting the rule of law?
Bruce Fein, a conservative who bitterly opposed the Bush administration's expansion of presidential powers, outlines several more recent acts by the Obama administration that fit this pattern, and has this to say today:
If the American people and Congress do not wake up from their Obama infatuation, presidential powers will soon be indistinguishable from King George III's that provoked the 1776 Declaration of Independence.