White House Asserts Privilege

AP:

WASHINGTON DC

A new wrinkle in the Supreme Court nomination of Judge John Roberts has emerged regarding papers written by Roberts for various government related jobs that he held.

According to sources, the main stumbling block is that Judge Roberts wrote the original draft of the infamous torture memo that has dogged the Bush administration since the Abu Ghraib scandal broke.

Apparently, it is this one memo that has caused the administration to invoke attorney-client privilege. One highly placed source said that it was an issue of being embarrassing personally to the President rather than an issue of confirmation, and will not be released, regardless of repercussions to the nomination.

The memo, entitled "Torture "B" Good," is apparently limited to about 100 words, and was specially edited so that President Bush could read it himself. The content was described as basing the rightness of torture on God's treatment of Job.

Neither Judge Roberts nor Scott McClellan were available for comment.