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executive privilege

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executive privilege
n.
The principle that members of the executive branch of government cannot legally be forced to disclose their confidential communications when such disclosure would adversely affect the operations or procedures of the executive branch.


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Some of the celebrity chief executives, dripping with executive privilege, perks and shareholder wealth, became the new poster children for "America's Most Wanted.
The line between unethical and illegal may not exist by McCord, Linnea / Los Angeles Business Journal
In the meantime, the ruling provided the framework for executive privilege, which the Bush administration has been trying to expand.
The secret sharer: executive patent privilege by Welch, Matt / Reason
The materials are no longer subject to requirements of the Presidential Records Act, and neither former President Bush nor current President Bush has asserted executive privilege over any of the materials, as is permitted by E.
Bush, Clinton libraries release records by Swartz, Nikki / Information Management Journal
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