Posted on 06/20/2012 11:32:40 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
With Barack Obama asserting executive privilege for the first time over Department of Justice documents related to Operation Fast & Furious, perhaps a historic look at his views on the legal maneuver are in order. When a few political appointees get fired — which is perfectly within the prerogative of a President — and the 2007 version of Barack Obama rejects its use entirely. When two American law-enforcement officers get killed, along with hundreds of Mexicans, by guns run across the border in an illegal operation at the Department of Justice? Not so much:
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Addendum: Gabriel Malor has the nuts and bolts of contempt of Congress proceedings. Read up on it and bookmark it. We’ll need it as a reference more than once.
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“The assertion of executive privilege raises monumental questions,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee who first began the Fast and Furious investigation.
“How can the president assert executive privilege if there was no White House involvement? How can the president exert executive privilege over documents he’s supposedly never seen? Is something very big being hidden to go to this extreme? The contempt citation is an important procedural mechanism in our system of checks and balances,” he said.
Rush just pointed this out.
Chip on June 20, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Sen. Grassley asks why invoke executive privilege today after they haven’t for the past 18 months? Or even as recently as yesterday’s meeting?
And no one ever accused Chuck Grassley of being the sharpest knife in the drawer...
Gotta remember, this President has invoked Executive Privilege over his Birth Certificate, School Records, College papers, etc. And what he has chosen to release turns out to be a “composite” at best, and total BS in most cases.
So it’s not like he feels he needs a reason!
Was it James Geraghty who said that every single statement Obama makes comes with an expiration date?
Obama felt free to lie about himself in his own “memoir”, so why should he be consistent anywhere else?
Show this far and wide.
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