LAT: "'Here's a guy who raises 'executive privilege' to historic levels to exempt himself from all rules and oversight, and now he says he's not part of the executive branch?' said [Gordon] Silverstein, [a constitutional scholar at UC Berkeley]. 'Here we have a subordinate part of the executive branch asserting independent constitutional authority even against its own superior. It is flabbergasting.'" Interesting to read coverage of the OVP obstruction story with the family jewels release (.pdf, more). Check out the Silberman parts here, hoping for a leak first as an excuse to continue the cover up.

Update: Balkinization's Sandy Levinson is worth reading on this.

Posted by Laura at June 22, 2007 08:04 AM