New York Sun
A Post lawyer says: "We have decided not to pursue litigation further, though we believe we would have prevailed in the court of appeals as we did in the trial court."
Josh Gerstein writes that before the Post abruptly backed down, its case was shaping up as a high-profile clash between Vice President
Dick Cheney's broad notions of executive privilege and the paper's insistence that the public has the right to know about lobbying and influence peddling at the highest levels of government.
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Earlier: WH contests Washington Post on providing visitor logs (AP)
