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StarfishSaver

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1. This is bigger than simply not "quashing" his 30 hours of testimony
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 11:00 AM
Nov 2019

Kirschner is correctly pointing out that, in allowing McGahn to testify to Mueller, he effectively waived any claims of executive privilege over anything that McGahn discussed in those interviews.

You can't let someone reveal information that was privileged and then try to re-invoke the privilege. Once it's waived, it's waived.

That means not just that McGahn's previous testimony can be shared. More important it means that he has to testify about any topic that came up in the Mueller interviews and Trump can't prevent him from doing so by invoking executive privilege - because he already let that cow out of the barn.

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