Posted on 05/05/2014 10:28:19 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Will Obama Claim Executive Privilege On Benghazi?
by Ken Klukowski 5 May 2014, 7:50 AM PDT post a comment
With Congress breathing down his neck on Benghazi, President Obama has a legal ace in his hand – executive privilege – which he could assert to protect the documents explaining exactly why the White House came to blame the attack on a YouTube video.
Politically, however, it's a hand he dare not play. To get the strongest legal backing for the privilege, Obama would need to claim he personally participated in the conversations about telling America the falsehood that the 9/11 Benghazi terrorist attack was due to the video.
There are two types of the executive privilege. The stronger one is the presidential communications privilege, and the (much) weaker one is the deliberative process privilege.
In the Fast and Furious scandal, Obama asserted deliberative process privilege. The issue is now being fought in court, where court precedent is against the Justice Department's arguments. While the move did buy Obama time, in all likelihood the defense won't ultimately stand up, granting Congress, and the public, the right to see the documents in question.
If Obama were to exert the presidential communications privilege in Benghazi, the the public will never get White House testimony or documents to find out what really happened, in part because the issue is in the realm of foreign policy, an area where courts have held the executive privilege is strong.
But that would require a scandalous assertion by Obama that he participated in the discussions to blame the attack on a YouTube video.
If it’s only the deliberative process privilege, then Congress will steamroll the Obama administration in court, and the American people will learn everything.
Already, Democrats are discussing whether Obama will assert executive privilege.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Let ‘em try it.
Actions speak louder than words
Unless Valerie Jarrett writes him a script, he’ll have to claim executive privilege . . . he doesn’t know what to say without a script, and Jarrett is the “president.”
Yeah, from the golf course.
Heh heh heh...
Options are narrowing!
Obama is asking himself: WWRND?
(What would Richard Nixon do?)
not a smidgen of corruption...
The ministry of propaganda will do all they can to insulate Barky, and more importantly, they'll make like Hillary wasn't involved in anything at all.
Mark
Will Obama Claim Executive Privilege On Benghazi?
No way!!!
Barack Obama promised to run the most transparent White House in history—disclosing donations, shunning lobbyists, and broadcasting important meetings on C-SPAN.
Candidate Obama said that his administration would be “the most open and transparent administration in history.”
No way would he claim executive privilege...no way!
It takes a big man admit when he is wrong...and BHO is not a big man.
Yes, he will.
Is the fact that the admInistration asserted executive privilege on Fast and Furious widely know?
Has the NYT covered it?
Is the fact that the admInistration asserted executive privilege on Fast and Furious widely know?
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I didn’t realize that he did. Is that why F&F has faded into the background?
First step in his Kenyan defense will be to have his minions in the press belittle this endeavor. The first part of that tactic will have dems refuse to sign onto the committee. They will carp to the receptive press who will blast this as the equal of the gop shutting down the government last year because they don’t want to move the country forward. If that does not work, and that will only happen in the unlikely event the he loses the MSM, then his excellency will pull out the executive privilege arguments and fight a real guard action past the election.
The first apologies to the "Muslim world" came from the Cairo embassy very early on the morning of Sept. 11th before the Cairo protests began and at least 15 hours before the attack in Benghazi.
Embassies!?! Embassies!?! Now who is charge of embassies!?!
By doing that he would have effectively thrown his entire administration “under the bus” . I believe that the would do it.
How many “smidgens” are in an “Up to your Neck”?
:: There are two types of the executive privilege. The stronger one is the presidential communications privilege, and the (much) weaker one is the deliberative process privilege. ::
Sorry, Sub. That only applies to white, (nominally) Christian Presidents.
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