You should stop listening to CNN and the idiots making stupid claims on the floor of the Senate.
Kennedy
1962 – directed Sec. of Defense not to provide the names of individuals who wrote or
edited speeches to Senate panel
1962 – directed military adviser, General Maxwell Taylor, to refuse to testify before a
congressional committee investigating Bay of Pigs affair
Johnson
Three instances occurred in which executive branch officials refused to supply congressional panel with information about presidential actions. Johnson did not invoke privilege himself nor
did officials claim he ordered their actions
Nixon
1970 – directed Attorney General to withhold FBI reports from a congressional panel
1971 – directed Secretary of State to withhold information from Congress about military
assistance programs
1972 – asserted to prevent a White House advisor from testifying before Senate panel about
an International Telephone and Telegraph settlement
Reagan
1981 – directed Sec. of Interior to assert privilege before congressional panel investigating
Canadian oil leases
1982 – directed EPA Administrator to claim privilege before congressional committee
regarding Superfund enforcement
Clinton
1995 – asserted during Senate Whitewater investigation over notes kept by White House counsel
1996 – asserted before a congressional committee during Travelgate investigation
1996 – asserted before the congressional committee over a FBI-DEA drug enforcement memo
1996 – asserted before congressional committee over Haiti/political assassinations documents
Obama
2012 – asserted by Attorney General in response to congressional investigation into
Operation Fast and Furious
Assertions of Executive Privilege from Kennedy to Obama - The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press