Well Master Barry...that's very interesting...and somewhat unexpected....so were you lying before or are you lying now....?
Posted on 06/20/2012 4:39:02 PM PDT by jazusamo
Fast and Furious fight heads to the House floor
President Obama’s attempt to invoke executive privilege to forestall contempt-of-Congress proceedings against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. failed. Instead, the claim elevates the dispute between the administration and Capitol Hill to a new and troubling level. The operative question now is, what did the president know and when did he know it?
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted Wednesday to recommend a contempt charge against Mr. Holder. Since October, the Justice Department has refused to respond to a subpoena seeking 1,300 pages of documents related to the botched Fast and Furious Mexican gunrunning operation. Negotiations between the Justice Department and committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, broke down, and the contempt recommendation followed.
Mr. Obama’s last-minute move to extend the umbrella of executive privilege raises the question of whether the president or his staff had extensive prior knowledge of the operation, because this privilege can only be invoked when the chief executive’s office is involved. “Until now, everyone believed that the decisions regarding Fast and Furious were confined to the Department of Justice,” said Michael Steel, spokesman for House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican. “The White House decision to invoke executive privilege implies that White House officials were either involved in the Fast and Furious operation or the cover-up that followed.”
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Ricky needs to stay outta the park, and away from air planes.
“Troubling?” - I’d be troubled if it WASN’T being faced down myself! - Little Twinkie the Troubled
Yep, and Brian Terry’s family are extremely troubled over this privilege.
Agreed, Bongo and his cast of crooks are not going to play nice thru this. I can only imagine what is going on inside the White House tonight.
Agreed, Bongo and his cast of crooks are not going to play nice thru this. I can only imagine what is going on inside the White House tonight.
It’s sing or Sing Sing.
Hmmm...”What did he know and when did he know it?”....I think I may have heard that question before.....
“The White House decision to invoke executive privilege implies that White House officials were either involved in the Fast and Furious operation or the cover-up that followed.”
Never lose sight of this.
I’m starting to enjoy this. Obama was elected, in part, because of his “otherness.” The more he pulls stunts like this, the more familiar he seems - Clintonian, Nixonian. It further erodes the basis for his election in 2008, and makes more plausible the possibility of his defeat this November.
...as was the family of Jaime Zapata (ICE agent gunned down with a F@F gun at a fake roadblock) and who just filed suit against the federal gov for wrongful death.
see post at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2897565/posts
Absolutely and thanks for that link!
ICE agent's family files wrongful death claim against Justice Dept.
clinton and nixon’s idiot stepchild, maybe.
clinton and nixon’s idiot stepchild, maybe.
....or he is really is in deep trouble with what is contained in the unreleased documents...
I think # 2 is more likely ....
He no doubt has much to hide, but it does not necessarily have to do with gunwalking and murdergate.
Holder is in a very bad place here. Could it be possible that, as Attorney General, he makes the claim of executive priviledge without the consent of President Obama, knowing that the President will have to back him? I suspect that Holder knows where a lot of bodies are buried.
Maybe this entire administration runs on lies, dark secrets, extortion, and blackmail.
Well Master Barry...that's very interesting...and somewhat unexpected....so were you lying before or are you lying now....?
I'm rather amazed that Holder has lasted as AG as long as he has with the many lapses as to law that have come from the DOJ. It suggests that he has knowledge Obama doesn't want known.
This administration has definitely run on lies and secrets, extortion and blackmail are not beyond rational thinking.
President Barack Obama's campaign spent more than it took in over the month of May despite his frenetic fundraising schedule, leaving the massive operation with just shy of $110 million dollars cash on hand against $115 million one month earlier.
The embattled incumbent scooped up a hair over $39 million dollars but spent nearly $44.6 million, according to a formal filing with the Federal Election Commission. A more detailed breakdown can be found here.
The figures followed the release of data showing Republican standard-bearer Mitt Romney outraised Obama and Democrats in May—the first time the former Massachusetts governor topped the president in the 2012 cycle.
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