Much anticipated Hope Hicks interview before the House Intelligence Committee postponed.

Courtesy of CNN: 

Hope Hicks' highly anticipated testimony before the House Intelligence Committee was abruptly delayed Thursday amid questions about whether the White House communications director would be able to respond to inquiries about topics after the campaign season, four sources told CNN. 

The surprise move came after Steve Bannon refused to answer scores of questions about topics during the transition and his time as President Donald Trump's chief strategist, with Bannon's attorney saying he had been instructed by the White House not to answer those questions over concerns that it could breach executive privilege. 

Hicks' appearance Friday was anticipated given her close ties to Trump, which predate the campaign, and the central role she has played through the election season and in the White House.

The committee made the decision to delay Hicks' appearance in order to give investigators time to sort out with the White House what she could and could not discuss, one of the sources said. She is still expected to speak with the panel at a later date.

Yeah that's a great way to run an investigation, by asking the subject's boss, and focus of the investigation, what they are allowed to reveal. 

Mueller certainly will not be asking Mother May I.

Judge rules that Bush cannot hide the truth from us indefinitely.

Presidents don't have indefinite veto power over which records are made public after they've left office, a federal judge ruled Monday.

In a narrowly crafted ruling, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly invalidated part of President Bush's 2001 executive order, which allowed former presidents and vice presidents to review executive records before they are released under the Freedom of Information Act.

By law, the National Archives has the final say over the release of presidential records and Kollar-Kotelly ruled that Bush's executive order "effectively eliminates" that discretion. It allows former presidents to delay the release of records "presumably indefinitely," she said.

The judge ordered the National Archives not to withhold any more documents based on that section of the executive order.

Hot damn! Now we can start to get to the bottom of some of the illegal bullshit that Bush has been hiding from us since he became President.

Oh you are going down now you inarticulate moron!

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.