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.
This is also a crock....(what is the legitimate committee functions if not to investigate the killing of a Fed. employee by illegal guns distributed BY THEM?!)
They are so over their heads that I would laugh if it wasn’t so serious!
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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.