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a Federal agency.
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#   He wants to inform Congress, but he is forbidden to do so unless he first
#   gets the approval of the very agency involved.
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#   And Congress has no power to change to change those rules so it can get
#   the facts.
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#   That is the legal position---the extraordinary position---taken by the
#   Clinton Administration. It is as far-reaching an assertion of executive
#   power to keep secrets from Congress as any president has ever made: the
#   power to cover up crimes of the state.
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#   The Administration's position was set out last Nov. 26 in a legal
#   memorandum, from the Justice Department to the CIA saying anyone
#   disclosing classified information to a member of Congress would
#   be violating the Constitution.
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#   James Madison must be rolling in his grave at that claim.
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#   The principal of separation of powers, which he wrote into the
#   Constitution, was designed to let each of the three branches of
#   Government check abuse by the others.
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#   Congress does not like to tangle with the executive on cl