Right to Privacy, or Not ?

"Sen. Teddy Kennedy has demanded that the Bush administration waive attorney-client privilege and release internal memos John Roberts worked on while in the solicitor general's office 15 years ago, all of which were supposed to be held in the deepest confidence. Apparently, Kennedy thinks public officials have no right to keep even their attorney-client communications secret.

This surprised me because the senator is such a strong advocate of the (nonexistent) 'right to privacy.' And not just in the way most drunken, Spanish quiz-cheating, no-pants-wearing public reprobates generally cherish their own personal right to privacy. I mean privacy in the abstract. I know as much about the 'right to privacy' as I know about any other made-up, nonexistent right, but I would have thought that any 'right to privacy' would protect confidential attorney-client conversations at least as much as, say, abortions in public buildings. But I'll have to defer to the expert." (Emphasis mine -H.H.)

---Ann Coulter