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Intro: (Thursday)

For years, Presidents had claimed executive privilege on the grounds that there was a need to protect military, diplomatic, or national security secrets. The prevailing thought was that a president cannot be forced to share with other branches of government certain conversations, actions, or information if sharing that information could place the United States foreign relations at risk. This "state secrets privilege" was generally accepted.

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Would you like to lear more? Executive privilege: what is it? Another look at what executive privilege is and how it fits into history [|Examples of executive privilege (Nixon-GW Bush)] Executive privilege & President Obama CBS News video piece on executive privilege (1:04 minutes)