Things look like they are going to get interesting next year:
“The Bush administration overstepped in its exertion of executive privilege, and may very well try to continue to shield information from the American people after it leaves office,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, who sits on two committees, Judiciary and Intelligence, that are examining aspects of Mr. Bush’s policies.
Topics of open investigations include the harsh interrogation of detainees, the prosecution of former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, secret legal memorandums from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel and the role of the former White House aides Karl Rove and Harriet E. Miers in the firing of federal prosecutors.
The article says that Bush might try the same thing Truman did in 1953 to get out of testifying before Congress after his term. The argument was separation of power, even after a President leaves office. In that case the Congress just backed down, but if our Congress keeps pushing on it then maybe we can get the Supreme Court to decide once and for all what separation of power really is and when does it end.