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Bush invokes executive privilege for Rove in attorney firings

SOURCE: Greg Gordon // McClatchy Newspapers

2 Aug 2007 // Ratcheting up the stakes in a legal battle with Congress, President Bush on Wednesday ordered White House adviser Karl Rove and a senior political aide to refuse on grounds of executive privilege to testify before the Senate on the firings of nine U.S. attorneys.

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