Executive privilege claim opens new questions for lawmakers probing Fast and Furious

FoxNews ^ | June 21, 2012 | unsigned

[Ron C.]

President Obama's decision to assert executive privilege over Operation Fast and Furious documents not only failed to delay contempt proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder -- it raised a whole new line of constitutional questions and challenges about the power of the presidency.

Republicans already are seeking more than 70,000 additional documents to answer their existing questions on Fast and Furious. The executive privilege claim opened up a new avenue of probing. 

The immediate question was whether the documents contained information so damaging that the president was willing to risk the bad PR by moving to lock them down. GOP lawmakers also questioned whether Obama's assertion was legitimate, later voting in committee that it was not appropriate in this case. And Republicans repeatedly suggested that the White House had tipped its hand, and acknowledged being involved in Fast and Furious discussions by asserting privilege over the documents in question. 

[Ron C.]

Obama and Holder have both 'stepped in it' BIG!

[biggredd1]

the commie has only used usurper privilege one time.

[teletech]

So far, Obama and the DemoncRats are winning the game of ‘Stonewall’. Lets see how this plays out.

[bobo1]

We ought to thank the obamanation for invoking executive privilege. It was Bush’s fault and he is just trying to protect him.

Blessings, Bobo

[Gator113]

“....the White House had tipped its hand, and acknowledged being involved in Fast and Furious discussions by asserting privilege over the documents in question.”

THAT is exactly what Obama did. This is also an admission that Obama knows exactly what is contained within those records.... and he is scared to death.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

I am guessing that his handlers think that asserting privelege will be the final word. Since he has gotten away virtually unchecked with all the czars, recess appointments and circumventing the Constitution as well as giving away billions of dollars to our enemies and Mooch’s socialist projects, why shouldn’t he get away with this?

[P-Marlowe]

So far, Obama and the DemoncRats are winning the game of ‘Stonewall’. Lets see how this plays out.

Hopefully it plays out about the same as it did for Nixon.

[Leep]

Obama and Holder have both ‘stepped in it’ BIG!

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Like Mark Levin said, “Lets not forget it was Barack Obama,not Eric Holder, who inacted Executive Privilege”

[teletech]

Hopefully it plays out about the same as it did for Nixon.

I can almost guarantee that will never happen. Obozo will NEVER resign.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Executive privilege was NEVER meant to allow the president to cover up illegal activity and, check me on this, allowing criminals to purchase thousands of firearms and then allowing them to export them across the US border into the hands of drug cartels who used them to murder hundreds of people is kind of illegal.

[Blood of Tyrants]

IF he has no knowledge of F&F before it broke in the news, how can he assert that executive privilege covers the case.

[MayflowerMadam]

I was thinking maybe this is a whole “rope-a-dope” scam by Hussein and Holder. Maybe they’ll finally turn over everything requested and there’ll be NOTHING. Remember when the Clinton machine would do this — just stir the pot, deflect attention from something bigger, and make the republicans look ridiculous? Hope our guys aren’t just huffing and puffing over a non-issue.

[UCANSEE2]

I keep saying, the F+F documents have been scrubbed or destroyed. Holder and Obama aren’t worried about those documents.

What they are doing is drawing a line in the sand, to establish a precedence. Obama wants the House and Senate to know that he and his buddies will not ‘take orders’. Obama has played the EP card, now we will see what our elected party officials from each state will do about it.

If they give in, then no one can ‘demand’ anything from ‘this Administration’. The ‘balance of power’ reaches the TIPPING POINT. Obama rules over ALL. Our government is then a certified dictatorship.

[UCANSEE2]

and he is scared to death.

No he isn't. Look at all the stuff he's done (that we call TREASON) that is public info. Nothing has happened to him yet.

The reason for the EP call by Obama is because Holder told Issa that if Issa would drop all charges, and end the committee hearings, then Holder would turn over (whatever he felt like of ) the documents.

Issa said no. Obama invoked E.P.

Now, Holder and Obama are challenging the Congressmen and Senators of the US to a battle over the EP.

If they get away with it, the socialist dictatorship takeover is complete.

If not, I doubt there is anything in the documents Holder has that would incriminate them any more than the TONS OF AVAILABLE EVIDENCE which proves Obama lied, Holder lied, and they got caught because some undercover DEA agents got in a battle with some undercover FBI agents using guns that ATF agents forced gunshops owners to sell to undercover ATF agents who were 'gun mules', and 2 Border Patrol Agents got caught in the crossfire.

[UCANSEE2]

Executive privilege was NEVER meant to allow the president to cover up illegal activity and, check me on this, allowing criminals to purchase thousands of firearms and then allowing them to export them across the US border into the hands of drug cartels who used them to murder hundreds of people is kind of illegal.

Well... the plan is to have the Sinola Cartel take over complete control of all illegal traffic going across the border by setting up 'cartel only' zones through ARIZONA. Calderon and Obama and officials along the string all get 'bribes'. This way It will appear the border is 'closed' (traffic through Texas will be 'legal' only) and both sides can take credit for it.

This is what your leaders have planned, and all one has to do is take a look at all the insanity that has gone on between the FEDS and ARIZONA, and signs like this to know what is happening:

[Mad Dawgg]

Is it just me or are these two videos in the White House Press Corps room in direct contradiction of one another?

http://youtu.be/RhM-b5sdNqk

http://youtu.be/L54gOgJxIRQ

[PghBaldy]

Supposedly, if some of his close advisers or assistants were involved, he can assert EP

[Starstruck]

Hope our guys aren’t just huffing and puffing over a non-issue.

There is an operation where the ATF tells gunshop owners to sell guns to people they know are buying for the Cartels. Do they arrest these people? No. These people take the guns to the cartel and pass them on. Is anyone arrested during this transaction? No.

The guns are no longer being tracked except when they show up at crime scenes. What do you usually have at crimes scenes where guns are involved? Murders.

What has the Fast and Furious operation achieved? Murders. What could you hope to achieve with this entire scenario except to try and use it for some type of gun control.

If anyone can give me another end result I am willing to listen, but allowing murders to occur for any result seems to contradict values most of us hold dear.The E-mails may end up a non-issue but the operation is not.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not if criminal activity was involved.

[MayflowerMadam]

“The E-mails may end up a non-issue but the operation is not.”

Of course, you’re 100% correct. Not for a moment do I believe it’s truly a “non-issue”; I was remembering Clinton tactics. I’m thinking of how the propaganda arm of Obama’s administration will spin everything. And I’m so effing sick of these cretins shouting, “Watergate!”, when Watergate was like jaywalking compared to Fast & Furious.

And I’m wondering why Brian Terry’s father told Hannity that they think the government is covering up something much deeper/worse, and that his son “wasn’t even supposed to be there that night”. How about Issa trying to connect those dots?