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Leahy Rejects Executive Privilege Claim; Contempt Citations Could Follow Next Week

Nov. 29, 2007, 11:28 a.m.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) ruled today that the White House claim of executive privilege covering testimony and documents from former top aides to President Bush was “overbroad, unsubstantiated and not legally valid.”

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