I think the term "executive privelage" is a kind way of saying the president has the power to keep any government documents or information, private. Which is overall, slightly confusing. How do we decide which information the president can keep private rightfully and the information that our country should know. Basically, when should it be applied and who can apply it? Apparently the current president may hold this power , as well as "a former president during whose term an allegedly privileged document was created", which i suppose is understandable.
A recent example of this power is Obama declaring he will not use executive privelage as far as the Kagan nomination. Yet it also known that certain documents pertaining to will be kept private because of national security concerns. So, I'm not quite sure if i grasp the whole idea of this privelage just because it seems as if there can be special circumstances and we can never truely know the intentions behind why it is used..? Thoughts?
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