But it could also simply be an acknowledgment that executive privilege continues to apply to certain topics and not others, saving Rove from discussing more sensitive matters while forcing him to be forthcoming on other topics.
It held that the key question is whether or not, in the context of publication of matters of public interest, the rationale behind the Reynolds privilege ought to apply such that constitutional free speech is the rule and restrictions on this right are the exception.
The privilege does not seem to apply to American lawyers who have clients or contacts in other countries.
Dr Sherwood Lynn, an abortion provider in San Antonio, told me that hospitals won't even send him the paperwork required to apply for privileges, and give no explanation for doing so.
Yet proceedings against him had been delayed as long as the White House could manage: in particular, by the efforts of administration lawyers to apply executive privilege to documentary evidence.
I had to apply for the privilege of paying Bookbub $630 to include my book in one single email.
You have to apply for options trading privileges, so if you're hoping to get your feet wet with options you'll have to prove that you know what you're getting into.
Those privileges, which apply to Ecuadorean exports worth hundreds of millions of dollars, were to expire at the end of July, and were unlikely to be renewed by Congress because of the strained relationship between the two countries.
The Second Circuit ruled that phone records — even those held by a third party, such as a phone company — were subject to the same common-law privilege that would apply to the journalists' own records.
The administration then resisted a subpoena for notes of Mrs Clinton's conversations with White House lawyers, claiming lawyer-client privilege; but the courts ruled that the subpoena was legal, since the privilege does not apply to government lawyers, even when they are talking to the president or his wife.
