Posted on 01/19/2016 12:57:52 PM PST by Kaslin
After significant deliberation U.S. District Judge Amy Berman has struck down Obama's assertion of executive privilege over documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, the Department of Justice program that allowed the sale and trafficking of thousands of weapons to violent Mexican drug cartels. Berman was appointed to the Court by President Obama in 2011. POLITICO has the details:
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department's public disclosures about its response to the so-called "gun walking" controversy undercut Obama's executive privilege claim.
The standoff over the records led to a House vote in 2012 holding then-Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the records. The House later initiated a lawsuit to try to force disclosure of the files.
Jackson left open the possibility that some of the records could be held back from Congress because they contain sensitive information on law enforcement techniques or implicate foreign policy concerns.
President Obama asserted executive privilege over thousands of documents after former Attorney General Eric Holder refused to turn over them over to Congress in June 2012 and just hours before the House Oversight Committee voted to hold Holder in contempt. This is what I wrote at the time just prior to the vote on Capitol Hill:
Just 15 minutes before the House Oversight Committee vote against Attorney General Eric Holder is set to take place, the Department of Justice has asked the White House to assert Executive Privilege for all Operation Fast and Furious documents according to Chairman Issa's press secretary Becca Watkins. Regardless, the vote will move forward. If President Obama decides to invoke executive privilege, it is an indication that President Obama was involved in Operation Fast and Furious, which he has boldly denied. President Obama said as early as last week he stood with "full faith and confidence" next to Attorney General in his handling of the Fast and Furious scandal.
President Obama granted the executive privilege request despite claiming to know nothing about Operation Fast and Furious when it was active from 2009-2010.
Holder was later held in civil and criminal contempt of Congress by Republicans and Democrats in the House for failing to cooperate with a congressional investigation and for refusing to turn over requested documentation.
The next step here is the Justice Department to turning over the disputed documentation to Congress, unless of course the White House appeals the decision.
Nobody golfs for free.
Hmmm I had almost forgotten about Obama’s Guns for Gangsters Operation...
Seems like it was ‘Under the radar’..
A prime example of why the entire “Justice” system sucks muddy ditch water.
It took 3 1/2 years from the time Holder was found in contempt to get this decision.
It should have taken about 3 1/2 months at the most.
Zero will pardon everyone from his administration, including himself, on the way out the door. He'll probably pardon every cop-killer now serving time.
About TIME!!!
About TIME!!!
My bet is that he will go Hillary and let her trash his Administration, which she needs to do in order to win. Watch the next several weeks for the answer.
Yes, but she was using incompetent private contractors.
DOJ has access to far better people. Or they’ve had enough time to redact literally everything and will use the loopholes provided by the judge to justify it.
And 0 will comply because?
off course they will
off course they will
Unfortunately you are correct
What good would that have done? You think the rats would have gone along with it? No way. I’d rather that arrogant pos be sentenced to Leavenworth Prison for Life plus 500 Years to make sure he won’t get out.
I think we will find a Libya/Benghazi style of Fast and Furious weapons leak soon.
With Eric Holder’s successor? LOL...
Attorney Generals don’t sentence anyone, That the job of judges
An Obuma appointee judge kicks President Buckwheat in the family jewels.
Oow! Oow!
And the nation cheers.
Hit him again.
Harder! Harder!
A judge can’t sentence if there is no prosecution of the individual...
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