Executive abuse of power

Found this great Editorial via Truthout about congress vs. unitary executive.

Abuse of Executive Privilege
The New York Times Editorial

After six years of
kowtowing to the White House, Congress is finally challenging President Bush's
campaign to trample all legal and constitutional restraints on his power.
Congressional committees have issued subpoenas for
documents and witnesses in two major cases and have asked for the first - and
likely not the last - criminal investigation of an executive branch official who
might have lied to Congress.
Predictably, the White
House is claiming executive privilege and refusing to cooperate with the
legitimate Congressional investigations, one springing from Mr. Bush's decision
to spy on Americans without a warrant and the other from the purge of United
States attorneys.
The courts have recognized a
president's limited right to keep the White House's internal deliberations
private. But it is far from an absolute right, and Mr. Bush's claim of executive
privilege in the attorneys scandal is especially ludicrous. The White House has
said repeatedly that Mr. Bush was not involved in the firings of nine United
States attorneys. If that's true, he can hardly argue that he has the right to
conceal conversations and e-mail exchanges that his aides had with one another
and the Justice Department...