He if full of crap (and so is Holder/Obama)...
Holder had urged Obama to assert the privilege in a letter (PDF) dispatched Tuesday evening. Holder wrote that sharing the internal documents could have “significant, damaging consequences” and would “inhibit candor” of future executive branch deliberations.
The Justice Department has turned over 7,600 pages of Fast and Furious documents, but Issa wants additional information about department deliberations that occurred after questions were raised about the probe, the Post says. Republicans want to know why the department issued and then withdrew a February 2011 letter to Congress saying officials had only recently learned of the Fast and Furious program.
Holder wrote in his letter to Obama that a congressional committee cannot defeat a claim of executive privilege unless the requested documents are “demonstrably critical” to responsible fulfillment of legitimate committee legislative functions. In this case, he said, the standard was not met.
Forcing the executive branch to turn over documents about its response to oversight inquiries “would create a detrimental dynamic that is quite similar to what would occur in litigation if lawyers had to disclose to adversaries their deliberations about the case,” Holder said. “As the Supreme Court recognized in establishing the attorney work product doctrine, ‘it is essential that a lawyer work with a certain degree of privacy, free from unnecessary intrusion by opposing parties and their counsel.’ ”
The AG office serves as lawyer to The People, he does NOT serve as personal lawyer to the president; therefore, BO is NOT his client and no privilege is in order. We went through this with Nixon.