DOJ places new legal barrier between Democrats and Trump impeachment witnesses

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18. Republican lawyers making s**t up.

"Executive privilege" has always been a negotiation.
"Executive privilege" did not exist as a point of law until Republican lawyers in Nixon's Justice Dept. made it up.
To defend a Republican crook.
Nixon's Republican lawyers asserted executive privilege to keep secret the Oval Office tapes.
The Supreme Court killed that saying the "fundamental demands of due process of law in the fair administration of criminal justice".
The Supreme Court said executive privilege - cannot be used to cover up wrongdoing.
That view was endorsed by current U.S. Attorney General William Barr during his Senate confirmation hearing.
Barr: "If it turns out that any report contains material information that is privileged or confidential, I would not tolerate an effort to withhold such information for any improper purpose, such as to cover up wrongdoing."
When Clinton asserted executive privilege re: Monica Lewinsky - he lost in Court.
When Obama asserted the privilege re: "Fast and Furious" - he lost in Court.
And here we are, another Republican lawyer with "the most transparent administration ever", invoking a "privilege".
To cover for another Republican crook.