U.S. Department
of Justice
Applicability of Executive Privilege to Deliberations Regarding Assertion of Privilege
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Headnotes
Documents reflecting and constituting deliberative communications within the White House Counsel’s Office and between that Office and the Department of Justice relating to advice and recommendations to the President on the assertion of executive privilege are themselves a proper subject of a claim of executive privilege.
Updated July 9, 2014