I do still think she should find a way to testify. Can’t she offer a sworn affadavit or something that was not actually sworn out before Congress or something? Nevertheless, I find some of the outrage over the White House exerting a longstanding and well-precedented privilege at the core of the executive branch a bit hypocritical given the relative quiet over Bill Clinton’s assertion of the “protective function privilege,” an entirely manufactured and unprecedented privilege which, in effect, said that the President of the United States has a praetorian guard who cannot be forced to testify on crimes permitted by the President.