Bush uses executive privilege again

President Bush claimed executive privilege to block the release of an FBI interview with Vice President Dick Cheney referring to the leak case of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Rep. Henry Waxman of the House Oversight Committee said he would move to hold Attorney General Michael Mukasky in contempt of Congress for not releasing the documents. Former State Department official Richard Armitage was the first one to reveal Plame's identity and I. Lewis Libby, the former cheif of staff to Vice President Cheney, was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation of the leak and had his sentence commuted by the President. Recently, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan claimed he was at best, misled, during the investigation by Karl Rove, the president's senior advisor and Libby. It seems like the administration has much to hide about this leak case and is doing as much as possible to make sure it never makes the light of day.

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