Posted on 06/20/2012 8:12:49 AM PDT by CaroleL
When it comes to the government's Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation, Attorney General Eric Holder is running out of places to hide. But now he has President Barack Obama aiding and abetting his efforts to keep the truth about the program from both Congress and the American people.
Facing a House committee vote today on whether he is in contempt of Congress for not turning over requested documents, the desperate Mr. Holder sent a letter to the White House today requesting that the president, " assert executive privilege over the identified documents." And Mr. Obama has complied.
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Excerpting something you wrote?
Holder contempt hearing on right now: http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN3/
listening to it right now on my phone.
Unfortunately democrap voters don’t care that the vermin they elected are reading Holder’s tlking points ‘into the record’. The lies are being passed along by the lairs —read typical democrats— and the public record is being salted with the lies which the criminal administration will then point to as if the facts and the enemy fifth column media in America will dutifully repeat the lies the more. I’m serious whn I say only guillotines can cure such evil in our midst.
People are not getting this is about getting information so the Congress can either continue to investigate or end the process.
Holder has released only some 10% of the documents requested which at this point is just unacceptable and is blatant stonewalling.
There is no way the justice department would allow a target of their investigation to perform any actions similar to what is being done here.
Justice would absolutely move for sanctions to enable them to continue their investigation so they would know how to proceed.
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