[Red Steel]

Obama been hiding and lying again.

[Red Steel]

U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle:

"The government appears to adopt the cavalier attitude that the President should be permitted to convey orders throughout the Executive Branch without public oversight – to engage in what is in effect governance by "secret law.""

[HarleyD]

A federal judge Tuesday rejected the Obama administration’s sweeping claims of executive privilege and ordered the disclosure of a foreign aid directive signed by President Barack Obama in 2010 but never publicly released.

Of all the things that are going on with this administration, this is the most curious. Why would this administration claim executive privilege over who is getting foreign aid? I would suspect, if this information comes to light, this will be devastating.

It reminds me of the start of Watergate, which started in a DC courthouse over some seemingly minor thing.

[Moorings]

“The government appears to adopt the cavalier attitude that the President should be permitted to convey orders throughout the Executive Branch without public oversight … to engage in what is in effect governance by ‘secret law,’” Huvelle said.

An excellent statement that describes our current situation. This should be news headlines everywhere.

[mrsmith]

Presidents have and need a large constitutional ability to conduct foreign affairs in secret.

But this claim of theirs seems bizarre.
If the directive needed to be secret it should have been classified as such.

[jeffc]

The Dems will just get one of “their” judges to overrule judge Huvelle and the media will celebrate it as a victory and that will be the end of it. Smackdowns of King Zero have never gone anywhere.

[Revel]

I assume that this is not about the case where Holder used presidential executive privilege to withhold information from congress. Even after Congress held him in contempt. Congress just hit the snore button on that one. As usual.