The court held that the President did enjoy a Governmental attorney-client privilege with members of his counsel's office, but, as was true of the Presidential communications privilege, it could be overcome on O.I.C.'s showings of need and inability to obtain the information from any other source...
If the White House is successful in convincing the Supreme Court that there is no need to bypass the appellate level on the issue of attorney-client privilege, it could prolong the legal wrangling between the President and the independent counsel for many months.
What no one knows, however, is the extent to which the regime will go to try and defend its power and privileges, but it could be very, very far.
Last week, he seemed to bait Mr. Holder when he said in a statement, "the Obama administration has not asserted executive privilege or any other valid privilege," so it could not refuse to produce the materials.
"Land of the Dead" was so savage in its attack on corrupt American privilege that it could have come only from an industry outsider, someone with a healthy disdain for the usual rules of franchise filmmaking and a principled refusal to play it safe.
It has been a privilege, but it could have been so very different.
If we are right in our understanding, the judgment of the supreme court was correct for the reason sufficiently stated above.' So that what was actually decided in the Adams Case was that the company was under no obligation to take local passengers, but, if it chose to do that kind of business, the privilege for doing it could be taxed by the state.
The judge agreed that Mr. Berlinger enjoyed the privilege but ruled that it could be outweighed if the material was not confidential and "likely relevant" to the case.
Judge Johnson has instructed Mr. Clinton's lawyers and Mr. Starr to prepare to argue the issue of executive privilege before her, although it could not be learned if a date for such arguments had been set.
"Film school was a privilege I could not afford," she said matter of factly over lunch in Philadelphia.
