| L’audizione pubblica del Consigliere per la sicurezza nazionale Condoleezza Rice alla luce dei rapporti tra Esecutivo e Legislativo negli Stati Uniti |
| Fascicolo 2004-3 |
| Scritto da Illari Silvia |
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Sommario 1. Il caso “Condoleezza”. – 2. La figura del presidential advisor. – 3. Le audizioni pubbliche dei Consiglieri presidenziali davanti ai committees del Congresso. – 4. Il dilemma dell’executive privilege: il prezzo politico di una garanzia giuridica. – 5. Le ragioni del Legislativo federale: il potere d’inchiesta del Congresso.
Abstract By conceeding that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice can testify publicly under oath before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, the Bush Administration capitulad under the congressional pressions, after weeks of argument that such testimony would compromise the separation of powers and the principle of executive privilege that Presidents enjoy with their advisors. This article is devoted to presidential executive privilege compared with congressional investigatory power. Over the past two centuries Congress and the President discussed that these powers are necessarily implied in the effective functioning of governement. No dubt they are. The difficult and unpredictable issue is how to resolve two implied powers when they collide. |