Executive privilege cited to guard `Travelgate' papers: House panel ready to hold White House in contempt.(Nation)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: May 9, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

The White House yesterday invoked the Watergate-era claim of executive privilege to shield thousands of documents in the "Travelgate" affair, and the House likely will charge the administration with contempt of Congress.

Despite promises from President Clinton to comply with the probe by the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, White House Counsel Jack Quinn told the panel's chairman, Rep. William F. Clinger Jr., the White House will ignore a new subpoena for papers.

Instead, he said, the White House will make a claim today of executive privilege to ...

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