Impeachment hearings in House Judiciary = NO EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE

[troubleinwinter]

In 1973 (Watergate impeachment hearings), the House Judiciary Committee found that executive privilege does not extend to an impeachment inquiry, and in fact cited refusal to comply with a subpoena issued by Congress in the course of an impeachment inquiry in its Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon.

Article III charged that President Nixon, by failing, without lawful cause or excuse and in willfull disobedience of the subpoenas of the House, to produce papers and things that the Committee had subpoenaed in the course of its impeachment inquiry, assumed to himself functions and judgments necessary to the exercise of the constitutional power of impeachment vested in the House.

If Cheney should refuse to abide by a subpoena by the comittee on the matter of impeachment inquiry, THAT IN ITSELF would be an impeachable offense.

How 'bout them apples?!