While President Clinton was trying to undermine investigations of his own campaign finance abuses, President Bush has ruled against the Burton committee’s access to old scandals unconnected to him. The Bush team has seemed to back away from an earlier blanket rejection of all congressional subpoenas, but its claim to invoke executive privilege on a case-by-case basis is suspect. Incredibly, it refuses to give up documents about the FBI’s Boston office condoning law-breaking.
Read it and weep.