{"id":147206,"date":"2018-01-18T02:13:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T07:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=147206"},"modified":"2018-01-18T02:13:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T07:13:49","slug":"russia-probes-come-up-against-claims-of-executive-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/18\/russia-probes-come-up-against-claims-of-executive-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia probes come up against claims of executive privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_131879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131879\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/4217661984_fec1fcdf69_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131879\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/4217661984_fec1fcdf69_z.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump's White House is relying on a sweeping interpretation of executive privilege that is rankling members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. (Photo by Tom Lohdan\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/4217661984_fec1fcdf69_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/4217661984_fec1fcdf69_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s White House is relying on a sweeping interpretation of executive privilege that is rankling members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tom_lohdan\/4217661984\/in\/photolist-7qGBY5-bfJctT-fn6YtK-7hjKow-6QWdCE-bAsSmS-bPnpJH-bPnFtp-bAsRSy-fAtJW4-bAsJRy-bPnufH-bPnr76-bAt4XN-j6CK2-bPnCQ8-bPnJiF-7hjKxW-bPnBfv-bPnp98-bPnGrk-bAsVm5-4LGy9q-FMfmV-aAZeVB-gb1C-6mm8Ce-MnP47-5RerfU-7fdaMX-aDDZVc-5Yghf5-2XffX6-hVDMBY-7PvyNH-7PvyCK-dyC3Pk-dyC7Kr-dyC1zv-dyHxTh-dyC9Fx-dyC8pe-dyC2zT-7hjLfs-dyHCHQ-dyHy3j-dyHxcd-dyC1vn-dyHuhJ-7x2aPn\">Photo by Tom Lohdan\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump&#8217;s White House is relying on a sweeping interpretation of executive privilege that is rankling members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>The contention espoused by top White House officials? Pretty much everything is off limits until the president says it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>The argument was laid bare this week during former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon&#8217;s closed-door interview with the House Intelligence Committee as part of its Russia probe.<\/p>\n<p>As lawmakers probed Bannon&#8217;s time working for Trump, his attorney got on the phone with the White House counsel&#8217;s office, relaying questions and asking what Bannon could tell Congress. The answer was a broad one. Bannon couldn&#8217;t discuss anything to do with his work on the presidential transition or later in the White House itself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump&#8217;s White House is relying on a sweeping interpretation of executive privilege that is rankling members &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":131879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[43798,14087,5848,512,9746],"class_list":["post-147206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-executive-privilege","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-probe","tag-russia","tag-white-house","mauthors-tom-lobianco","mauthors-zeke-miller","mauthors-chad-day","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}