The following article by Matt Zapotosky was posted on the Washington Post website June 13, 2017:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s repeated refusal to answer lawmakers’ skeptical inquiries Tuesday draws on a long legal and political tradition: Private deliberations involving the president and his top advisers often can be kept out of public view.
But analysts disagreed on whether the attorney general was appropriately using executive privilege to advance a worthy goal, or merely suggesting it as a shield to fend off questions he did not want to take. Continue reading “Jeff Sessions finds a shield in executive privilege — but it might not be a strong one”