Originally Posted by eweissenbach

I am not sure that a "wrong" has been committed, and either way, a "wrong" is often in the eye of the beholder. I would argue that your analogy is off base. I think the posters bringing up the number of times executive privilege has been excercised by previous president are not excusing the act as much as they are questioning why some people are outraged by one president using it and not outraged by its use by previous presidents.