President Clinton today invoked executive privilege in denying Congress a memo from FBI Director Louis J. Freeh and Drug Enforcement Administrator Thomas B. Constantine to Clinton that is said to be highly critical of the administration's drug policy.
In a letter to House Government Reform National Security Subcommittee Chairman William Zeliff, R-N.H., White House counsel Jack Quinn said, "The president has instructed me to inform you that he invokes executive privilege with respect to this document."
According to a report in Newsweek, the memo, written in April 1995, complained about the lack of "any true leadership" in battling heroin and cocaine trafficking.
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