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WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- Congressional threats to have U.S. presidential aides charged with criminal contempt will not succeed, predicted a White House spokesman.
The Department of Justice would most likely block efforts by Democrats to seek contempt charges against current and former aides for refusing to give information to Congress, spokesman Tony Fratto said Friday.
Congress and the White House are in conflict over the administration's invoking executive privilege to prevent any testimony about its role in last year's dismissal of federal prosecutors, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Federal "law does not permit Congress to require a U.S. attorney to convene a grand jury or otherwise pursue a prosecution" when someone refuses on the basis of executive privilege to testify, Fratto said.
Former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers, White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten and Sara M. Taylor, a former White House political director invoked executive privilege in their refusals to provide information.
Historically, most confrontations over the refusal by presidents or their aides to provide information to Congress have ended in a compromise, The Times reported.
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