Posted on 03/19/2013 3:59:24 PM PDT by Nachum
House Republicans are standing strong in their pursuit of Operation Fast and Furious documents, The Hill’s Jordy Yager reports, undercutting a narrative the Department of Justice has tried to seep into the media.
President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege over the documents minutes before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted Attorney General Eric Holder into both civil and criminal contempt of Congress last summer. The full House followed up voting on a bipartisan basis to hold Holder in contempt shortly thereafter, spurning the current lawsuit against the administration for the documents. The DOJ has declined to pursue criminal charges against Holder.
“A fight over President Obama’s use of executive privilege on the documents that led to Attorney General Eric Holder’s contempt charges is increasingly likely to be decided in court,” Yager wrote on Tuesday. “The way the court decides could drastically limit congressional subpoena powers — or curb the extent to which the president can claim executive privilege.”
Members of the mainstream media, including Politico’s Josh Gerstein and Reuters’ David Ingram, have tried to foster a narrative that House Republicans would fold and settle the lawsuit. “Lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department and for congressional Republicans told a federal judge on Tuesday they were in talks to settle a suit stemming from Operation Fast and Furious, a botched probe into gun trafficking to Mexican drug cartels,” Ingram wrote in November, adding that such a settlement would “bring a quiet end to a political furor that stirred the passions of gun owners, ended some Justice Department careers and led Republicans to find U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt.”
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I sincerely hope the Republicans won’t fold.
This ship has sailed. NOTHING will come from this. The commies & crooks run the country. Wake up.
You know you’re on facebook too much when you try to “like” the article on FReerepublic.
LOL
Operation Fast & Furious was not a
"...botched probe into gun trafficking to Mexican drug cartels,”
It was a deliberate attempt to usurp the Constitution of the United States.
Think about it, the 0bama regime broke both federal, state, and international laws regarding the sale, and transportation of weapons. What, 32 laws or more?
And it gets better. Supplying arms to a sworn enemy of the Mexican government is an act of war. Well, that is what all the Geneva Conventions and protocols have to say about it. Where is the U.N when you need them?
AND then you have people in this regime trying to cover it up. Claim Executive Privilege on what the president said he knew nothing about when interviewed regarding Fast & Furious?
Oh, before I go I have to mention one more thing. No Mr. Ingram, this was an obvious attack on the the 2nd amendment. Is the following sentence true or false...?
DemocRATs/socialist/marxist/liberals/progressives (sorry for the redundancy), want the state to have the weapons, but not the peasants.
Remember Mr. Ingram, no one died in Watergate.
5.56mm
Good post.
When I was a kid, we called it Treason.
Impeachment File on B. Hussein Obama.
"Ben Gazzi? Didn't he star in Fast and Furious?"
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