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Obama's Executive Privilege Has The Stench Of Cover-Up
IBD Editorials ^ | June 20, 2012

Posted on 06/20/2012 6:10:10 PM PDT by raptor22

Edited on 06/20/2012 6:37:14 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Scandal: The president illegally asserts executive privilege to protect an attorney general who's either a clueless political hack, malevolent or both, withholding answers of who is responsible for a Border Patrol agent's death.

President Obama's contempt for the rule of law hit a new low when, on the eve of a vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, he granted his AG's 11th-hour request to hide sought-after documents on Operation Fast and Furious under the cover of executive privilege.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2deadfeds; 300deadmexicans; atf; banglist; brianterry; dea; dhs; doj; ericholder; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; ibd; ibdguns; ice; jaimezapata; johndodson; murdergate; obama; terry; worldisgoingbonkers; zapata
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1 posted on 06/20/2012 6:10:16 PM PDT by raptor22
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To: raptor22

Just need a little tape on a door.....


2 posted on 06/20/2012 6:13:34 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live thnrough it anyway)
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To: raptor22
who is responsible for a Border Patrol agent's death

There are also several hundred dead Mexicans, killed by Obama/Holder's guns.

Too many ignore the murder of those people, who didn't deserve to die to push a statist agenda in another nation.

3 posted on 06/20/2012 6:17:24 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Vendome

Just wait til they have to start explaining the
documents they have already shredded. Missing tapes?
Just wait.


4 posted on 06/20/2012 6:18:03 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: dead

Judge Napalitano has a good article on this on the Fox News site.


5 posted on 06/20/2012 6:19:13 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: tet68
Missing tapes?

If we could only hack into Baraq & Holder's blackberry communications LOL

6 posted on 06/20/2012 6:22:45 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: dead

Here’s another:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-57457277-10391695/ice-agents-family-files-wrongful-death-claim-against-doj/?tag=socsh


7 posted on 06/20/2012 6:38:58 PM PDT by hoosiermama ( Obama: " born in Kenya.".. he's lying now or then?)
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To: MikeSteelBe

link?


8 posted on 06/20/2012 6:39:51 PM PDT by hoosiermama ( Obama: " born in Kenya.".. he's lying now or then?)
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To: tet68

They don’t have an Ollie North so when one of them gets caught they will cough up their co- conspirators .

WIN WIN


9 posted on 06/20/2012 6:45:57 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live thnrough it anyway)
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...

Start measuring Holder for an orange jump suit.


10 posted on 06/20/2012 6:54:43 PM PDT by raptor22 (Join me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken)
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To: nascarnation

E-mails are never completely deleted, there’s always a copy somewhere.

But Republicans should take the Administration to court, and demand they prove WHY executive privilege can be invoked here - they only way they can do that is to admit the WH was involved, which means Congress can then nail Holder on perjury.


11 posted on 06/20/2012 7:28:49 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: raptor22

Both Obama and Holder have denied having any knowledge of F&F so why is Obummer now seeking executive privilege? Who and or what are they wanting to hide? They surely wouldn’t go out on a limb to cover for a 2nd or third level political appointee. No, it is Obama and Holder they are seeking to cover.


12 posted on 06/20/2012 7:31:57 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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To: raptor22

“Start measuring Holder for an orange jump suit.”
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With today’s administration and culture??? Fat chance.
More likely he will get a raise or promotion.

We can, however, always wish and dream, just as we dream of Obozo being sent home to Kenya.


13 posted on 06/20/2012 7:49:57 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: raptor22

Expecting soon “I’m not a crook”!


14 posted on 06/20/2012 8:00:46 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“Who and or what are they wanting to hide?”

A self-admitted pot smoking, coke snorting, drug-dealing Chicago president using the ATF to arm Mexican drug lords? Hmmm...


15 posted on 06/20/2012 9:13:08 PM PDT by Owl558 ("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
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To: raptor22

Invoking executive privilege screams one message loud and clear:

Obama and Holder have both been Ridin’ Dirty!


16 posted on 06/20/2012 10:52:30 PM PDT by Iron Munro (John Adams: 'Two ways to enslave a country. One is by the sword, the other is by debt')
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To: Owl558

Didn’t zero return political donations to a drug cartel recently?

I wonder how much money came in that nobody found out about?


17 posted on 06/20/2012 11:16:56 PM PDT by Califreak ( Vote For Pedro!)
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To: Califreak; Owl558; raptor22

Obama returns $200K donation from Mexican drug cartel

18 posted on 06/20/2012 11:40:39 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: hoosiermama

Here:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/06/20/president-obama-attorney-general-holder-and-executive-privilege/


19 posted on 06/21/2012 12:41:55 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: AlexW

“With today’s administration and culture??? Fat chance.
More likely he will get a raise or promotion.”

True.

Congress did nothing substantial to hold the Clinton cartel accountable for it’s crimes, so why should we expect anything different today?


20 posted on 06/21/2012 12:48:41 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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