For example, in the three or four cases that the Bush administration has asserted the privilege - in the NSA eavesdropping program context, I can imagine, having served at the National Security Council and the CIA, any number of scenarios under which it would be tremendously damaging to our national security for al-Qaida to understand any of the facts about this program.
That resolution, according to a GOP spokesman, would allow the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to file a lawsuit asking the courts to examine the Justice Department's failure to produce certain subpoenaed documents, as well as the validity of the administration's assertion of executive privilege.
The Administration's sweeping claims of executive privilege, for instance, will ultimately be tossed out by the Supreme Court, but the claims will delay investigations.