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...There's a precedent for Presidents and their staff refusing to provide information about what goes on behind closed doors in the White House - and for Supreme Court overruling them: The Nixon tapes and Watergate. Reviewing Nixon's refusal to turn over tapes of private conversations, the Court, in its only decision on executive privilege, ruled that while the President must maintain a certain degree of privilege, the specifics and criminal nature of the Watergate case rendered that privilege secondary to the public's right to know. On the other hand, while Enron is under criminal investigation, Cheney himself...
...Unfortunately, the Watergate precedent may not hold up. "Legal scholars generally agree the Nixon case wasn't very well reasoned, and actually provided very little guidance for future cases," says Northwestern School of Law professor Bob Bennett. Generally, a certain allowance of privilege is given to situations that appear to concern issues of national security or deliberative privacy. Is this one of those cases...
...subject, as if you hadn't guessed, is best-selling historian Stephen Ambrose, author of, among other works, a trilogy on Nixon; Crazy Horse and Custer; The Wild Blue; and Citizen Soldiers--well, author of most of them. For the past couple of weeks, prompted by a piece in The Weekly Standard showing the similarities between The Wild Blue and a 1995 book by historian Thomas Childers, truth diggers have discovered that there are a number of plagiarized passages in these books. And there may be more to come. You can bet that right now folks are crawling through Ambrose...
...ground), conspiracy isn't necessarily an easy charge to prove. "When you read the indictment, it reads like a laundry list of different activities by different people in different parts of the world," says Barry Pollack, a criminal defense attorney and partner at the Washington, D.C. firm of Nixon Peabody. "What his defense attorneys need to do is separate Moussaoui from the actions of other people." In a normal case, that might not be so hard - there doesn't seem to be any physical evidence linking him to the conspiracy - but in this case, the charge itself will work against...
President Nixon: Alone in the White House Those who feel they can't bear to read another word about perhaps the most peculiar man ever to occupy the White House should think again. Richard Reeves sifted mountains of evidence in an attempt to get inside the President's skin. This approach works wonders. Nixon haters will still hate him, but they and less partisan readers will come away from the book feeling they have lived a portion of Nixon's life...