White House Has Asserted Executive Privilege on ‘Fast and Furious’ Documents

Fox New Insider ^ | 20 June 2012

[Fractal Trader]

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

[Crucial]

It's looking exactly like Watergate. Nixon cited executive priviledge as well. The difference is that no one was murdered in Watergate.

[exit82]

Let’s give this a name:

Obamagate.

[Momto2]

The Republicans’ response to this will speak volumes!

[MEG33]

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

[PapaBear3625]

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?' "

[DarthVader]

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

[RummyChick]

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

[jiggyboy]

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.

[duffee]

‘What now’?

Vote to impeach anyway.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-—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.

[Vigilanteman]

Executive Privilege worked out so well for this guy:

[opentalk]

Contempt proceedings live now C-SPAN 3

[meadsjn]

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.

[Kenton]

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

[struggle]

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

[Red_Devil 232]

Issa plowing ahead with contempt.

live stream on Fox news

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

[Missouri gal]

Not a chance in the world this can fly. It's impeachment time, and Obozo’s goose is cooked!

[MestaMachine]

Here we go...
I
can’t
stand
it...

[angelcindy]

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

[FlyVet]

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.