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...Philip Melanson, professor of law at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, doesn't think this has anything to do with national security, and believes that fact could be hurting the White House's case. "While it's true that deliberations in the White House certainly have some valid claim to executive privilege, allowing the White House to be this secretive about public policy that has nothing to do with national security seems to be pushing the envelope of executive privilege...
...calculus of the midterm elections. Voters will probably be willing to cut Cheney and the administration some slack if there is a clear-cut reason for secrecy. Otherwise, Cheney and the GOP could take a pounding in the press. "Everyone is very sympathetic to issues of national security," says Melanson, "especially in times like these. But when it comes to issues of domestic policy that affect a controversial matter, I think the public right to know and even the doctrine of executive privilege suggests some information should be forthcoming...
...even if it's legal, is it good PR? Is Cheney making a major public relations mistake by withholding any information? Spilling the beans, says Melanson, is almost always the best option in cases like this. "History shows that the public does not abide secrecy when there's a domestic scandal going on - even if there was no wrongdoing," he says. And, he adds, there is still time for the Bush administration to reverse course. "What the White House should have done, and still can do, is say, okay, we still believe our claim of executive privilege, but things have...
Some Brown fans added to the ugly display, pelting the Harvard bench with garbage in the third period. Things got so bad by the time Harvard scored its fifth and final goal that referee John Melanson had to order arena security behind the Harvard bench to keep order...
...Gators players became instant celebrities on the friendly streets of Lafayette. It helped that French is widely spoken here and that some players had names, like Arsenault and Melanson, that already filled columns of the Lafayette phone book. (Cajuns are among the few Americans who can correctly pronounce the French-Canadian names in a hockey lineup...