White House Invokes Executive Privilege on.... Pat Tillman Records

At long last, have they no shame? (Er, that's obviously rhetorical):

The White House has refused to give Congress documents about the death of former NFL player Pat Tillman, with White House counsel Fred Fielding saying that certain papers relating to discussion of the friendly-fire shooting “implicate Executive Branch confidentiality interests.”

Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Tom Davis R-Va., the leading members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, objected to the refusal Friday in letters to the White House and the Defense Department.

White House and Pentagon officials have turned over about 10,000 pages of material, but Waxman and Davis said those papers lack critical documents that would show communications between senior administration officials and top military officers shortly after Tillman was killed in Afghanistan in 2004.

Forget for a moment how specious the legal argument or how craven the implications, and ask yourself: at what point (and over whom) will the Congress stand up to this administration's continuous flaunting of legislative oversight? Taylor? Miers? Tillman? Gonzales? And what more will it take than an administration claiming executive privilege over the release of a soldier's records before the Congress finally stands up and says, Enough?

Maybe those questions are rhetorical, too.