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Vitter rejects White House claims [on executive privilege]; Stonewalling won't wash, he says
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| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jan 26, 2006 08:09pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New Orleans Times-Picayune |
| News Date | Friday, January 27, 2006 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Thursday, January 26, 2006
By Bruce Alpert
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., says he doesn't buy Bush administration arguments of executive privilege in barring some federal officials from telling a Senate committee about their contacts with the White House regarding Hurricane Katrina.
"There is such a thing as valid executive privilege, but from what I have read, some of the withholding of information and some of the refusal to allow agency representatives to testify goes way beyond that," said Vitter, a usually strong supporter of the administration.
Vitter was responding to complaints this week from the two senators leading a committee investigation into the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said that the White House has hindered the Senate probe by barring some federal officials from telling the panel's investigators about the timing of their contacts with the White House and the kind of information they provided.
That information is critical, the two senators said, as investigators try to build a time line of the government's response to the storm that devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29.
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