President Bush asserted executive privilege Friday to withhold documents from a congressional investigation into whether he pressured the Environmental Protection Agency to weaken decisions on smog and greenhouse gases.
White House officials notified a House committee of the rare assertion about 15 minutes before the committee was to vote on holding the head of the EPA [...]

MANILA, Philippines — Whatever position he may be named to by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, newly-appointed Social Security System (SSS) administrator Romulo Neri said he would still be covered by executive privilege.
“Executive privilege will stay with me for rest of my life. It will stay because it happened during the time when I was Cabinet member,” [...]

In the United States government, executive privilege is the power (reserve power) claimed by the President of the United States and other members of the executive branch to resist certain search warrants and other interventions by the legislative and judicial branches of government. The concept of executive privilege is not mentioned explicitly in the United [...]