I need a legal beagle to explain something. On FOX a little while ago Chris Plante was debating with a lib about F & F. The lib’s stance is that NONE of the remaining paperwork being requested by Issa CAN be turned over as it’s “lawyer work-product” and as such is somehow sacred.
He if full of crap (and so is Holder/Obama)...
Holder had urged Obama to assert the privilege in a letter (PDF) dispatched Tuesday evening. Holder wrote that sharing the internal documents could have “significant, damaging consequences” and would “inhibit candor” of future executive branch deliberations.
The Justice Department has turned over 7,600 pages of Fast and Furious documents, but Issa wants additional information about department deliberations that occurred after questions were raised about the probe, the Post says. Republicans want to know why the department issued and then withdrew a February 2011 letter to Congress saying officials had only recently learned of the Fast and Furious program.
Holder wrote in his letter to Obama that a congressional committee cannot defeat a claim of executive privilege unless the requested documents are “demonstrably critical” to responsible fulfillment of legitimate committee legislative functions. In this case, he said, the standard was not met.
Forcing the executive branch to turn over documents about its response to oversight inquiries “would create a detrimental dynamic that is quite similar to what would occur in litigation if lawyers had to disclose to adversaries their deliberations about the case,” Holder said. “As the Supreme Court recognized in establishing the attorney work product doctrine, ‘it is essential that a lawyer work with a certain degree of privacy, free from unnecessary intrusion by opposing parties and their counsel.’ ”
I’m calling BS. That would only be true if no crime was involved. Perjury and cover-up of conspiracy to murder are both crimes. A lawyer can’t help hide evidence of a crime.