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White House Mocks Issa Fast & Furious Investigation as "Political Theater"
CBS News via Twitter ^ | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 | Mark Knoller

Posted on 06/20/2012 10:03:23 AM PDT by kristinn

WH Comms Dir @pfeiffer44 slams Oversight Cmte for pursuing "a politically-motivated, taxpayer-funded election-year fishing expedition."

In written statement, @pfeiffer44 says House GOP should work with Presd Obama "to create more jobs, not more political theater.”


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To: kristinn

“Political Theater”?

Then what’s with the executive privilege if it’s all a big nothing?


61 posted on 06/20/2012 11:03:20 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (If case you are wondering, I'm STILL supporting Newt.)
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To: kristinn

This is just another new chapter of their made-up narrative to run against dysfunctional Congress. I hope our guys are loaded and ready to fire back with the indisputable facts.


62 posted on 06/20/2012 11:04:00 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Nixon would have tried this if he had the press in his pocket... If the MSM helps in the cover up, will anyone respect journalists - ever again?


63 posted on 06/20/2012 11:10:44 AM PDT by GOPJ (The 'doting court eunuchs' of the MSM fail to notice...)
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To: ilgipper

How about the fact that they had 18 months to assert executive privilege and waited until Holder had run out of options?

Are there any thinking people in the Justice Department who don’t like what’s going on?


64 posted on 06/20/2012 11:11:18 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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To: plain talk
CNN is not conflicted and still with obama based on how they are presenting this at their web site.

CNN cover up torture and murder in Iraq under Saddam Hussein to maintain their Baghdad bureau. They will align with evil for political advantage.

65 posted on 06/20/2012 11:13:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The media ignored the 40th anniversary of Bill Ayers' Pentagon bombing but not Watergate. Ask Why.)
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To: Rennes Templar

The White House Insider, over at the Ulsterman Report, has been predicting that this Holder issue would explode right about now. The timing isn’t accidental. I can’t wait to hear what he says in his next interview.


66 posted on 06/20/2012 11:15:50 AM PDT by ChocChipCookie
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To: kristinn

My recollections from the earlier CSPAN coverage include

“witch hunt”
“fishing expedition”
“kangaroo court”

as well.


67 posted on 06/20/2012 11:16:09 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: kristinn

Predictable! Assert Executive Privilege, Stonewall, accuse opponents of playing political games.


68 posted on 06/20/2012 11:16:09 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Hang tough and never admit to anything. Bill Clinton wrote the playbook and now they all run those plays.


69 posted on 06/20/2012 11:17:41 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Headline on Drudge now...

GRASSLEY: ASSERTION ‘RAISES MONUMENTAL QUESTIONS’...
...’over documents he’s supposedly never seen?’

Obama busted...Mexico can go ahead and apply for that international arrest warrant for the gunrunner-in-chief!


70 posted on 06/20/2012 11:18:45 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: a fool in paradise

On the other side of the political spectrum Breitbart News has gotten its’ teeth into the story. I don’t think they’re gonna let it go. They have some pretty decent investigative journalists @ Breitbart to unleash on this. We shall see.....


71 posted on 06/20/2012 11:19:06 AM PDT by RacerX1128 (Cornered in CA)
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To: wideawake

All your assertions are logical conclusions.

It will be a cold day in hell before the left is ever logical.


72 posted on 06/20/2012 11:23:14 AM PDT by A message
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To: kristinn

Supreme Court case United States v. Richard Nixon…” the president cannot use executive privilege as an excuse to withhold evidence that is ‘demonstrably relevant to an investigation.’The question is, will Obama get away with this?


73 posted on 06/20/2012 11:27:33 AM PDT by mandaladon (PalinGenesis)
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To: kristinn

Excellent article here-
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/zieve/120620

“The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders” — 2 Thessalonians 2:9


74 posted on 06/20/2012 11:30:51 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Hussein Obama Dada is absolutely the most offensive President that the US has ever suffered.)
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To: mandaladon
"Supreme Court case United States v. Richard Nixon…” the president cannot use executive privilege as an excuse to withhold evidence that is ‘demonstrably relevant to an investigation.’The question is, will Obama get away with this?"

If the DOJ will not go into court for the House, then Boehner and Issa would have to hire their own counsel to file suit. When the DOJ itself is corrupt and the media is complicit, there are enormous obstacles to overcome to obtain any justice against the Administration.

75 posted on 06/20/2012 11:32:35 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: saganite
good point. Need to twitter that comment to Issa! LOL

You declare executive privilege to protect yourself from political theatre?

76 posted on 06/20/2012 11:36:22 AM PDT by pollywog ("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
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To: no-to-illegals
One can ascertain, the democRATs and the lamestream media has no interest in people who lost their lives by the F&F program being run out of our nation's White House and Department of Justice.

And this speaks to Obama & Holder's real contempt toward Mexicans.

Pander to them with phoney amnesty or facilitate their murders for political advantage. Whatever.

77 posted on 06/20/2012 11:39:51 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: pollywog

I don’t tweet.


78 posted on 06/20/2012 11:40:08 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: kristinn
...should work with Presd Obama "to create more jobs, not more political theater.”

I'm sorry - I thought the private sector was doing "just fine", right?
No, sir: this isn't about theater... it's about murder.

79 posted on 06/20/2012 11:40:16 AM PDT by alancarp (Liberals are all for shared pain... until they're included in the pain group.)
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To: saganite

AHaaHaHahaa.... GREAT POINT! I failed to see the forest while looking at the trees.


80 posted on 06/20/2012 11:42:02 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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