Executive Privilege and the Presidential Veto The executive privilege has become one of the most creative political devices of the establishment for the promotion of secrecy and corruption. By declaring certain information inaccessible to all but only to the executive branch and its favored accomplices, this institution furnishes for itself a means by which it could conspire against us all. in Public bookmarkswith constitutionexecutivelibertypartypopulistpresidentialprivilegeveto Note: Executive Privilege and the Presidential Veto