摘要：It is no secret that the George W. Bush Administration made a ma-jor effort to expand (or restore, depending upon one's perspective) the President's power with respect to the other branches of govern-ment.1In particular, the Bush Administration attempted to streng-then the President's power to withhold documents from Congress and the courts under the doctrine of executive privilege,2which had taken quite a beating during the Clinton Administration.3Near the end of President Bush's first term, he won a major victory when the Supreme Court ruled that he did not even have to assert executive privilege in order to protect from disclosure documents relating to the National Energy Policy Development Group, chaired by Vice President Cheney (and commonly known as the "Energy Task Force").4The President managed to avoid a major confrontation with Congress over executive privilege until after the 2006 election, when the Democrats regained control of the House of Representa-tives and began to conduct more vigorous oversight of the executive branch
