Posted on 11/21/2014 5:58:12 PM PST by jazusamo
Obama’s Lawless Amnesty Tests Our Republic
Judicial Watch Victory: Obama Gives Up Fast and Furious Documents
President Gruber
Obama Jet-Setting Costs Taxpayers
Obama’s Lawless Amnesty Tests Our Republic
I write this late Friday after an extraordinarily busy week at Judicial Watch (see below).
Honest Americans are still gasping from President Obama’s speech last night announcing his own amnesty program, based on no legal authority, for at least five million illegal aliens. I warned you last week about Obama’s amnesty assault on our nation. Unfortunately, my summary needs no update from last week, but should reassure you that we are on the case:
Self-government, elections, laws, and other essential aspects of our constitutional system seem of little concern to the corrupt leader of this gangster administration. Judicial Watch will continue to take the lead in exposing and stopping this lawlessness. Your Judicial Watch is considering major litigation to stop Obama’s dictatorial amnesty agenda. We will keep moving forward toward accountability, and won’t wait for Congress and the rest of Washington to catch up.
Obama’s power grab is an attack on the very soul of our representative government. Is Obama king or a man subject to the law? Despicably, the White House’s web propaganda arm leads with Obama’s misleading reference to Holy Scripture to justify this lawlessness. The president, our oppressor, steals our liberty, mocks the law-abiding, violates his oath to God – and dares to lecture us on oppression.
Hypocrisy aside, I am outraged as you are by the president’s new proposals. But Obama’s lawless amnesty has been in place for years. Your Judicial Watch has been going to court repeatedly to get you the details. We’ve documented Obama’s lawlessness on immigration for you here . Please go to our website atwww.judicialwatch.org for more on all our work for the rule of law on immigration.
Our expert team is now examining Obama’s plans and will develop our legal and investigative response to help protect the safety of the country and the U.S. Constitution.
Contact your elected representatives in Washington to let them know what you think they should do. It seems to me that Congress has a positive moral obligation to not fund this or any other Obama lawlessness. The House Republican leadership knew this crisis was coming, but adjourned anyway. That tells you that any strong response will have to come through pressure from you.
For Congress to fund Obama’s assault on the Republic because Republican leaders don’t want a shut-down would make Congress complicit in Obama’s lawlessness. Do Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and other Republicans want to be accessories-after-the-fact with Obama? Are there honest Democrats that support the U.S. Constitution?
Sue, defund, impeach, shut-down, prosecute – all are possibilities to be considered in these critical times. (We even had the idea of something as simple as boycotting the State of the Union Address.)
I will close this initial battle report with a quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer that I had the privilege of sharing yesterday with a member of Congress who has been steadfast on the issue of illegal immigration:
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
The congressman was motivated and moved by this quote. And we could all do worse for a “talking point” to persuade Establishment Washington to stand with Judicial Watch and the vast majority of Americans who oppose and want to stop Obama’s latest power grab.
Judicial Watch Victory: Obama Gives Up Fast and Furious Documents
We have big news to report on the latest in the growing Operation Fast and Furious scandal implicating President Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ). On November 18, 2014, Judicial Watch obtained a massive production of documents in response to a June 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and our subsequent FOIA lawsuit. All told, over 10,000 documents, which include about 42,000 pages, were disclosed to Judicial Watch. They are now available at this link.
As you may recall from our previous updates, Fast and Furious was a joint Justice Department-Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gun running operation that the administration perpetrated expecting it would bolster gun control proposals in the U.S. The idea was to allow guns to find their way into the arms of Mexican drug cartel members who would use them in criminal operations. Some of the weapons used in Fast and Furious have been implicated in the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and hundreds of innocent Mexicans. We have also obtained information through a lawsuit filed against the City of Phoenix, Arizona, that shows Congress has confirmed that an AK 47 rifle used in July 29, 2013, gang-style assault on an apartment building that resulted in the wounding of two people was part of the Fast and Furious program.
Perhaps one of the most chilling exchanges JW uncovered in this latest batch of documents is a highly explosive email from a top DOJ official to a White House official. It reveals the lengths to which the administration went in order to target and silence then-CBS investigative journalist Sheryl Attkisson.
On October 4, 2011, Holder’s top press aide, Tracy Schmaler, tells White House Deputy Press Sectary Eric Schultz, “I’m also calling Sharryl’s [sic] editor and reaching out to Scheiffer. She’s out of control”
Schultz responded, “Good. Her piece was really bad for the AG.”
Schultz also detailed to Schmaler that he was working with a journalist (Susan Davis, formerly of the National Journal) to target Rep. Darryl Issa (R-CA), the House Republican leading the charge on Fast and Furious:
“And I sent NJ’s Susan Davis your way. She’s writing on Issa/FandF and I said you could load her up on the leaks, etc.”
So here we have an email chain that implicates the Obama White House and the Justice Department in an effort to undermine a congressional investigation and to suppress media reports critical of Team Obama.
No wonder Obama waited until after he was safely reelected (and even after this year’s elections) to finally release this material that documents obstruction and abuse at the highest levels.
The documents show that Obama made the extraordinary assertion of executive privilege over emails between Eric Holder and his wife, Sharon Malone. The emails show that Holder sent his spouse internal DOJ emails about Fast and Furious developments. There is nothing that would have been covered by executive privilege in these or other key records that show Barack Obama abused his power to keep them secret during his reelection campaign up until now.
This latest release is a tribute to our team of lawyers and investigators who broke through the Obama stonewall. Judicial Watch’s tenacious lawsuit has led to the first public disclosure of Fast and Furious documents at the heart of the historic contempt citation against Attorney General Eric Holder. These documents, many of which are heavily blacked out, withheld for over two years by President Obama, are a road map to the Obama administration’s Fast and Furious cover-up and deadly lies.
Our supporters should be proud that their contributions helped our team of lawyers and investigators break through the Obama/Holder stonewall on Fast and Furious. Our disclosures exposed as fraud Obama’s assertions of executive privilege and led to Holder’s surprise resignation. And it was because of our lawsuit that Congress finally obtained information it had sought for years on Fast and Furious.
We are posting these documents for the public to review, and hope that crowd-sourcing our investigation will lead to more accountability for the Fast and Furious outrage. The documents are explosive so let’s get to work together!
Judicial Watch’s team will pour through the ten thousand-plus pages to discover what other revealing Fast and Furious information Holder and Obama have been covering up. Rest assured that there is more to come, and we will keep you fully informed.
Continues with President Gruber & Obama Jet-Setting Costs Taxpayers
We need a Special Prosecutor when the new congress starts in 2015.
Just one????????????
Yep, whatever it takes to get rid of this turkey in the WH and his appointees who hate America.
You are right............Too much business for one guy!
The Congress and responsible judiciary need to address Obama as the Clear-And-Present-Danger that he is to American freedom, liberty, our Constituion and legal system.
Fyi
Absolutely...0bama is definitely a Clear-And-Present-Danger and it’s past time for the Legislative and Judicial branch to take action.
Thanks for the ping; my choice would be
IMPEACH
the other items such as sue, de fund, etc are being done.
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Yes
Are there honest Democrats that support the U.S. Constitution?
No
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