House seeks Fast and Furious gun-walking documents

The Washington Times ^ | December 17, 2013 | Jim McElhatton

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House lawyers late Monday filed court papers asking a federal judge to force the Justice Department to turn over records to reveal the extent of efforts to stonewall a congressional probe into a botched weapons investigation known as Fast and Furious.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wants the records to wrap up its probe, which has shifted from the bungled gun-walking operation to “an apparent effort, over a period of many months, by high level DOJ officials” to hinder the investigation, lawyers argued in a court pleading filed Tuesday night in federal court in Washington.

The request marks the latest development in a long, bitter battle for access to documents, which has already seen the House vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt.

House lawyers also rejected Mr. Holder’s claim to withhold documents based on an exemption known as deliberative process.

“But deciding how to stiff Congress and spin the media is simply not a ‘policy’ to which the privilege attaches,” House General Counsel Kerry W. Kircher argued in the pleading.

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If these rogue agents and agencies are not investigated and prosecuted and punished, we will not have much of a nation and it certainly won’t be representing the freedom and honest government that our founding fathers had in mind.

We the people have the power to create positive change if we would only quit arguing about mundane politics, and instead make it about right and honest vs wrong and corrupt - regardless of the Party in power.

When you pull the covers back there is corruption in politics, and neither Party should be able to get away with it simply because the members of their Party or the media look the other way.