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White House Has Asserted Executive Privilege on ‘Fast and Furious’ Documents
Fox New Insider ^ | 20 June 2012

Posted on 06/20/2012 7:07:01 AM PDT by Fractal Trader

The White House has asserted executive privilege over documents related to the ‘Fast and Furious’ scandal.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2deadfeds; 300deadmexicans; atf; banglist; dea; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; ffexecutiveprivilege; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; ice; murdergate; obama
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To: Fractal Trader
It's looking exactly like Watergate. Nixon cited executive priviledge as well. The difference is that no one was murdered in Watergate.
41 posted on 06/20/2012 7:19:16 AM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Let’s give this a name:

Obamagate.


42 posted on 06/20/2012 7:19:44 AM PDT by exit82
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To: dinodino

The Republicans’ response to this will speak volumes!


43 posted on 06/20/2012 7:19:44 AM PDT by Momto2 (I hate it when I wake up and Obama is President.......)
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To: Fractal Trader

This just shows how damaging the information in the documents is to this administration.


44 posted on 06/20/2012 7:20:08 AM PDT by MEG33 (O Lord, Guide Our Nation)
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To: Sudetenland
Judge Napolitano says that this is not an appropriate venue for "Executive Privilege" as it is intended solely to cover communications directly to and from the President and only on subjects of national security and defense.

Interesting point. Issa should counter with: "By asserting Executive Privilege, Holder and Obama thereby admit that Obama had engaged in communication about Fast and Furious. Now we just need to uncover 'What did he know, and When did he know it?' "

45 posted on 06/20/2012 7:20:23 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: katiedidit1

That’s right and Watergate killed Nixon. Legal precident is legal precident my dear.


46 posted on 06/20/2012 7:20:40 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: Colorado Cowgirl

http://www.examiner.com/article/nra-holds-a-key-to-contempt-vote-as-holder-dares-issa-to-proceed


47 posted on 06/20/2012 7:21:11 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: All

Issa is live on CSPAN3

http://www.c-span.org/Events/Meeting-to-Consider-Attorney-General-Holder-Contempt-Citation/10737431716/

I’ll see if I can transcribe anything interesting in the next few minutes.


48 posted on 06/20/2012 7:22:12 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Balding_Eagle

‘What now’?

Vote to impeach anyway.


49 posted on 06/20/2012 7:22:25 AM PDT by duffee (NEWT 2012)
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To: Mouton

-—That was their plan from day one...string it out as long as possible then go for executive privilege. Wonder how many top stories this will generate in the MSL......crickets.——

Couldn’t agree more.

Hard to imagine the Republicans getting into a street fight about this. I’m picturing a tersely written letter.


50 posted on 06/20/2012 7:22:37 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: Balding_Eagle
Executive Privilege worked out so well for this guy:
51 posted on 06/20/2012 7:23:24 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Fractal Trader

Contempt proceedings live now C-SPAN 3


52 posted on 06/20/2012 7:23:28 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: DarthVader
No it sounds Nixonian and this was the watermark which was the beginning of the end of Nixon. I say the House has a contempt vote and put Obuggery on it as well.

That was it for Nixon. This guy has several other shoes waiting to drop though, and it could go much quicker.

53 posted on 06/20/2012 7:24:05 AM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: Fractal Trader

For some reason this reminds me of a poker player who just went all in on a pair of 2’s.


54 posted on 06/20/2012 7:24:30 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: opentalk

http://www.c-span.org/Events/Meeting-to-Consider-Attorney-General-Holder-Contempt-Citation/10737431716-1/


55 posted on 06/20/2012 7:24:43 AM PDT by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: Fractal Trader

Issa plowing ahead with contempt.

live stream on Fox news

http://video.foxnews.com/video-live-streaming.html?video_id=1155606218001


56 posted on 06/20/2012 7:24:42 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Fractal Trader
Not a chance in the world this can fly. It's impeachment time, and Obozo’s goose is cooked!
57 posted on 06/20/2012 7:24:43 AM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: Joe Brower; Travis McGee; LucyT; vette6387; MetaThought; 60Gunner; XHogPilot; FreedomPoster; ...

Here we go...
I
can’t
stand
it...


58 posted on 06/20/2012 7:24:43 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: Fractal Trader

Lets see which person in Congress says the word IMPEACHMENT first!!!!! and that goes for both Holder and Obama!!


59 posted on 06/20/2012 7:24:52 AM PDT by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd ,you get no further than the crowd!")
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To: Fractal Trader
Is it not mind-boggling, the sorry, pathetic quality of these elected and appointed officials? Buckley was so right, about picking names out of the phone book. We'd be so much better off.

We can safely say that they are attempting to cover up the murders of hundreds of innocent people in order to undermine our civil rights, and most of the MSM is complicit.

They think of themselves as elite, but they are nothing but lowlife, loser sociopaths.

60 posted on 06/20/2012 7:25:01 AM PDT by FlyVet
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