From HuffPo and the NYT:
More at the link(s).
I'm not exactly sure how I feel about this -- I always thought it was Dick Cheney blocking all the investigations.
Quote:
| When a Congressional committee subpoenaed Harry S. Truman in 1953, nearly a year after he left office, he made a startling claim: Even though he was no longer president, the Constitution still empowered him to block subpoenas. "If the doctrine of separation of powers and the independence of the presidency is to have any validity at all, it must be equally applicable to a president after his term of office has expired," Truman wrote to the committee. |
I'm not exactly sure how I feel about this -- I always thought it was Dick Cheney blocking all the investigations.
