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Can Obama make an executive-privilege claim stick? (How will it work legally and politically?)
Hotair ^ | 06/21/2012 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 06/21/2012 6:38:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: RummyChick

Wait all you want. Never heard of it so I can’t tell you.


21 posted on 06/21/2012 7:57:57 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Once Obama’s claim of executive privilege is shot down, will we find an 18-minute gap in whatever he is ordered to produce?


22 posted on 06/21/2012 8:03:57 AM PDT by Walrus (Today's question: Why are there so many negroes in advertisements?)
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To: TigersEye

Wow, so you haven’t done very much research into the Drug Wars, eh???

Well how about this one.

Should Mark Conrad be taken seriously.

A former supervisory special agent with U.S. Customs.

He said that the CIA has agents operating inside many federal law enforcement agencies utilizing what is known as an “official cover.” He also said ICE is a perfect vehicle for the CIA because it can provide the Agency with a free pass through U.S. ports of entry.

“All an ICE agent has to do is make a call and the cargo will be cleared through the checkpoint,” he says.

He is talking about the kind of agencies you used in your letter.

So explain to me how the Sinaloas got a hold of a CIA rendition plane through a known CIA/DEA/FBI asset and used it to transport 4 tons of cocaine...


23 posted on 06/21/2012 8:04:56 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: TigersEye

Yes, I ‘miswrote’. Wide Receiver, my bad.


24 posted on 06/21/2012 8:10:43 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: TigersEye

Let’s try another.

Should Leutrell Osborne be taken seriously. The man who recruited and managed CIA spies. He directed agents and assets in at least 24 countries. He was also a COMSEC officer.


25 posted on 06/21/2012 8:11:30 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: agere_contra

Not a problem. A lot of names have been thrown around regarding this story.


26 posted on 06/21/2012 8:12:57 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: TigersEye

Once you figure out that Osborne was a Spymaster...perhaps you will think twice about your claim that the CIA doesn’t win a turf war against law enforcement.

Osborne has said where there is a Turf War over assets - CIA wins hands down.

You claim that the CIA was arming the enemy of the Sinaloas.

You have admitted that the CIA would have had to know about F&F. F&F was arming the Sinaloas.

It couldn’t have happened without the approval of the CIA.

Btw, there is another poster here who is on the right track.

It’s called Blowback.


27 posted on 06/21/2012 8:34:08 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: stockpirate

Question: Does POTUS have to claim a reason when he asserts “privilege”?


28 posted on 06/21/2012 8:44:03 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy (Trust in God, but empty the clip.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Read an article on Breitbart yesterday that obama CAN legally claim EP for Fast and Furious documents. I’ve been looking for it this morning but can’t find it, now. Wish I had bookmarked.


29 posted on 06/21/2012 8:45:46 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: SeekAndFind

Politically, it only has to work until November. Easy peasy for zer0bama.


30 posted on 06/21/2012 9:09:08 AM PDT by Kevmo (SUCINOFRAGOPWIASS: Shut Up, CINOs; Free Republic Aint a GOP Website. It's A Socon Site.)
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To: cornfedcowboy

The claim has to fall within certain guidelines, which I understand this doesn’t.


31 posted on 06/21/2012 10:08:41 AM PDT by stockpirate (Romney, Ann Coulter & our ruling republican elites, are Big Government socialists, Grand Ole Sociali)
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To: SeekAndFind

This claim of privilege is the biggest blunder I’ve seen the boy president ever make, and that’s saying a lot. Not only does he have to make the assertion he or someone close to him is sufficiently involved to have written an email to DOJ, it forced the story onto the front page of a lot of media outlets that had been burying or ignoring F & F.


32 posted on 06/21/2012 10:10:09 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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