Executive privilege is meant to protect sensitive information from people who would use it to do harm to america. However, it can also be used to hide a president's actions from the public and the other branches of the government. Due to its nature, it is basically free from Congressional oversight. The president is the only one that decides what can be told and what can't. That the president can claim executive privilege to protect information from the general public makes sense. Without the full context, some of this information may cause citizens to misinterpret what they have been told, giving the government unnecessary problems. That the president can claim executive privilege to congress however, is a little less understandable. The decision not to tell everyone in Congress can still be defended, but not to tell anyone gives the president too much power of the distribution of information. As far as I know, this hasn't really been seriously abused yet, but it coukld just be that the attempts to abuse it have been successful. An option for placing a stronger constraint on this power is for there to be a committee in Congress, made up of some of the more experienced representatives, that would be there for the purpose of knowing what the president knows, and advising the president on these issues that are so sensitive to national security. Using elected officials would be better than those appointed by the president, and the members of this committee would be selected by people other than the president, meaning they wouldn't necessarily just be there for the purpose of confirming what the president wanted. This restriction of information has its uses, but for it to be reserved only for the executive branch is a little excessive.