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...Stern said that it is thanks to the Harvard IRB’s support that she is now able to conduct her research relatively free of government interference. In the wake of a hard-won fight against a Washington subpoena in 2001—a case in which Harvard refused to help—the University is now working with Stern to protect her notes and her sources from federal review...
...SUBPOENA POWER The government seems to be paying attention to at least one serious scholar...
...Generally speaking, executive privilege is the President's right to withhold certain information from Congress, the courts and most anyone else, even in the face of a subpoena. It's a conditional privilege, meaning it can be overridden in some circumstances, such as when the President is the target of a criminal investigation. That's why President Nixon famously lost his 1974 struggle in the U.S. Supreme Court to keep the Watergate tapes private. But the courts are typically deferential to the privilege, presuming that it holds unless someone can prove an overwhelming interest in obtaining the information...
...same time an increasingly testy Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would subpoena Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, and other White House officials involved in firings, and that he would like them to testify in public before the panel. Visibly exasperated, Leahy said, "I want testimony under oath. I am sick and tired of getting half-truths on this," adding, "I do not believe in this 'We'll have a private briefing for you where we'll tell you everything,' and they don't." But it remains unclear whether, or under what condictions, the White House...
...Tuesday, Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter, the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate judiciary committee, sent him a letter asking him to make himself available for interviews and testimony before the committee. Yesterday the committee notched up the pressure on him, making clear it intended to authorize subpoena power against him next week...