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Sara Taylor gets Senatorial Smackdown
In case you hadn't heard, July is National Evoke Executive Privilege month. As the Senate Judiciary Committee attempts to probe the White House's role in the firing of eight federal prosecutors, the Bush administration continues to throw up every possible roadblock in its legal arsenal, making helpful information more difficult to extract than a stubborn molar.
On Wednesday, former White House political director Sara Taylor navigated her testimony like a schizophrenic contortionist in her attempt to answer enough questions to avoid a contempt citation, while still following Presidential instructions to say nothing about White House deliberations.
Here, after referring to her "oath to the president," Taylor is not-so-gently reminded by Judiciary Committie Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy that she actually took an oath to the Constitution. And that the Constitution and the President are... different.
