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Holder Begs Court to Stop Document Release on Fast and Furious
Breitbart ^ | January 17, 2013 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 01/18/2013 8:37:24 AM PST by yoe

Attorney General Eric Holder and his Department of Justice have (asked) a federal court to indefinitely delay a lawsuit brought by watchdog group Judicial Watch. The lawsuit seeks the enforcement of open records requests relating to Operation Fast and Furious, as required by law.

[snip] The administration has refused to comply with Judicial Watch’s FOIA request, and in mid-September the group (filed a lawsuit) challenging Holder’s denial. That lawsuit remains ongoing but within the past week President Barack Obama’s administration filed what’s called a “motion to stay” the suit. Such a motion is something that if granted would delay the lawsuit indefinitely.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said that Holder’s and Obama’s desire to continually hide these Fast and Furious documents is “ironic” now that they’re so gung-ho on gun control. “It is beyond ironic that the Obama administration has initiated an anti-gun violence push as it seeking to keep secret key documents about its very own Fast and Furious gun walking scandal,”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; corruption; democrats; fandfstalling; fastandfurious; holder; obama
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To: libstripper
No one will ever convince me that this is not what happened.
Too many things stink about the whole operation. Nothing adds up. We've been had. Pwned.
21 posted on 01/18/2013 10:39:12 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Humans have eliminated natural selection. Morons are now a protected species. They breed and vote.)
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To: yoe

delay a lawsuit

Getting hot in the old kitchen Huh guys.Must be getting real close to the truth.


22 posted on 01/18/2013 11:26:39 AM PST by bikerman (Gun control does nothing to stop gun violence. But then, Washington specializes in the art of doing)
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To: yoe

Yeah and whatever happened to those congressional contempt charges and any attempt by a Republican congress to get there hands on those documents. Notice that we have not heard another world about it.


23 posted on 01/18/2013 12:45:33 PM PST by Revel
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To: yoe

Judge: Why?

Holder: They’re politically embarrasing and reveal that we were working on a false flag operation so we could gut the 2nd Amendment.


24 posted on 01/19/2013 8:36:03 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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