Executive Privilege means never having to say anything, to anybody, ever!

Has there ever been a time in history where the President of the Untied States evoked Executive Privilege so often, and for so little? Bush treats Executive Privilege as the Presidential version of the Fifth Amendment.

Bush is going to invoke Executive Privilege to keep Karl Rove and White House aide J. Scott Jennings from testifying to Congress concerning the firing of the federal prosecutors. And this is after encouraging White House political director Sara Taylor to use it when she was before Congress and also prompting chief of staff Joshua Bolten to invoke it to withhold documents asked for in the same hearings.

And perhaps in the most damnable of the spate of Executive Privilege evocations, the White House is even using it to keep the public from learning the truth about Pat Tillman.

The only conclusion that I can come to when I see so many uses of this Presidential shield is to assume that there are multiple things of which this White House does not want any Americans to know about. At least to me it seems that the White House knows it is in the wrong and does not want to be found out.

And it also seems that this is the last resort of an embattled President trying desperately to keep his Presidency from self destructing under the weight of scandal.

It will probably surprise no one to learn that Richard Nixon also tried to use Executive Privilege to keep Congress form accessing his secret tapes. It might be worthwhile to note that he failed. Perhaps we can hope for a similar outcome this time.