Political Quotes

“In this May 10, 1988, letter from Thomas Boyd to Joe Biden, then-chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee: As Assistant Attorney General John Bolton noted in an August 24, 1987, letter to you, many of the documents provided the Committee, "reflect or disclose purely internal deliberations within the Executive Branch, the work product of attorneys in connection with government litigation or confidential legal advice received from or provided to client agencies within the Executive Branch." We provided these privileged documents to the Committee in order to respond fully to the Committee's request and to expedite the confirmation process. In response to my friend, the point I am making is they did not draw the same absolute line being drawn by the Bush White House for Miguel Estrada. They disclosed information which reflected purely internal deliberations and the work product of attorneys and confidential legal advice and did it in the spirit of cooperation. They drew a line, but the line was on the side of disclosure. The line drawn by the Bush White House for Estrada is on the side of concealment, the refusal to disclose this information.”