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The Washington Post ran a front-page story on the administration's "bold new assertion of executive authority." Experts were quoted on how "astonishing" and "breathtaking" and "Nixonian" the administration's claim of executive privilege was, and Democratic senators got in the words "outrageous" and "constitutional crisis." (One expert who took the pro-administration view, NR's own David Rivkin, was also quoted, deep in the story.) The next day, on p. A3, the Post ran a story noting that some Democratic experts thought that the administration might just prevail and that the Clinton administration had taken the same legal position. Same writers; no trace of sheepishness. Here are the un-breathtaking facts of the matter. Congressional Democrats want to ...