The movie shows that Javier's sense of entitlement or privilege asserted in private is insidious precisely because it goes unspoken; it's a kind of action that can be masked as benign.
It is not clear that executive privilege asserted by the president extends to records that neither he nor his staff saw and that were not related to White House matters, other than the subpoena response.
The privilege asserted by Cheney's office recalls his attempt last year to evade rules for disclosing classified documents by claiming that the vice president's office is a hybrid branch of government that is neither executive nor legislative.
Shortly after he filed the lawsuit in December 2005, the government intervened to seek its dismissal under the state secrets privilege, asserting that to have to provide evidence in the case would compromise national security.
Like others with the money to go to a disco (many of them the children of the Communist elite) she was defensive about her privilege, asserting her solidarity with the great majority of Vietnamese who are poor.
"Executive privilege is an extraordinary assertion of power not to be lightly invoked," Justice Kennedy said, adding, "Once executive privilege is asserted, coequal branches of the government are set on a collision course".
Historically, though, the justice department has said that it can't go forward once executive privilege is asserted – an argument made by the Bush administration during the investigation of the possibly politically-motivated firing of US attorneys.
The king replied, he remembered he had such a nobleman, and believed the privilege he asserted to be his right, and giving him his hand to kiss, his lordship paid his obeisance, and remained covered.
Against privilege, he asserts haplessness.
In this case, the White House has invoked executive privilege in asserting that its present and former aides cannot be compelled to comply with the subpoenas.
