Privilege watch: Framing standards to evaluate the grant of presidential communication privilege in a legislative inquiry

• Main Author: Limbonhai, Katrina Anne T.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2008
• Subjects: Executive privilege (Government information); Government information—Law and legislation; Public Law and Legal Theory
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7433
• Institution: De La Salle University

Executive privilege is the prerogative that permits the president and high-level executive branch officials to withhold information from the Court or the Congress, and ultimately, the public. Such is designed to protect confidential military or diplomatic operations and private communications betwee...