President Obama Grants Executive Privilege to Eric Holder Over ‘Fast and Furious’ Documents
(The Blaze/AP) – President Obama has granted Attorney General Eric Holder executive privilege on documents pertaining to Operation “Fast and Furious.”
Holder recently agreed to provide additional subpoenaed documents to members of Congress, including Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), however, the latest move indicates the attorney general has no intention of making good on his promise.
Watch (LIVE) the House committee meeting to consider Holder contempt citation here.
In a letter to President Obama, Holder wrote, “I am writing to request that you assert executive privilege with respect to confidential Department of Justice (“Department”) documents that are responsive to the subpoena issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the United States House of Representatives (“Committee”) on October 25, 2011. The subpoena relates to the Committee’s investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, a law enforcement operation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona to stem the illegal flow of firearms from the United States to drug cartels in Mexico (“Fast and Furious”).”
“The documents at issue fit squarely within the scope of executive privilege. In connection with prior assertions of executive privilege, two Attorneys General have advised the President that documents of this kind are within the scope of executive privilege.”
Read the full letter here.
Read the rest of this report here.
THEN :
Rep. Darrell Issa pressed ahead with a committee vote Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, despite an 11th-hour move by President Obama to exert executive privilege over the Fast and Furious documents at the heart of the dispute.
The announcement instantly touched off a caustic debate on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, as Democrats accused Issa of prosecuting a "political witch hunt" and Republicans stepped up their criticism of Holder's "stonewalling" over the Fast and Furious probe. Even for Washington, the tone at the hearing was decidedly bitter and accusatory.
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AND LETS REMEMBER THIS FLASHBACK:
FLASHBACK 2007: Obama Attacked Trying "To Hide Behind Executive Privilege"
Updated 6:24/12
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I'll tell you what, words just won't do it. It will take significant force to ever get to the truth being hidden by this bunch of agenda driven, colluding, congenital liars.
Clarence
Thank God for knowledgable and persistent men like Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley. God, Please guide America and Americans safely through this "Constutional Emergency", as created by this crappy Obama Administration.
Water Gate 2 - the cover up is going to be worse.
VOTE already...VOTE!
I thought that an assuption of wrong doing, unless disproved, attains the cloak of an accomplice.
Must be part of a new government witness protection program, like save another crook.
Actually I thin we will only know a tiny part of the truth. Obama and Holder have buried the truth
Hussain is involved in this fiasco and that's why he invoked executive priviledge! Holder needs to go to jail just like any ordinary citizen who refused to repsond to a subpoena and Hussain should be right next to him! The corruption is overwelming and I for one, am -issed off and want to demand action! Agent Terry's family deserve the asnwers as to who is responsible for their son's death and so do the American people! Aboslutely disgusting! Hussain spits on the constitution, ignores court decisions, has over 950 executive orders issued and is ruling as a dictator! In fact, he is almost done in taking over this country! Throw this whole corrupt administration out before the country is totally gone!
OH ~~TY for the other retraction, needed it in PRINT and recording this rest..
President Obama Grants Executive Privilege.
Well of course, there buddies and partners in crime. Besides, in this case Sh*t runs up hill.
It's is in the air...Day of Reconing...about time!
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