Posted on 06/20/2012 1:27:30 PM PDT by servo1969
‘Obama goes Nixon, claims executive privilege on F&F’
Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa notes that this means that Obama is claiming privilege for documents it has been claimed he never saw.
AP:
“The assertion of executive privilege raises monumental questions,” Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said in a statement released Wednesday shortly after the president’s move. “How can the President assert executive privilege if there was no White House involvement? How can the President exert executive privilege over documents he’s supposedly never seen? Is something very big being hidden to go to this extreme? The contempt citation is an important procedural mechanism in our system of checks and balances. The questions from Congress go to determining what happened in a disastrous government program for accountability and so that it’s never repeated again.”
Grassley is the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee and has previously called a Justice Department investigation into the “Fast and Furious” gunrunning operation “botched.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/06/obama_goes_nixon_claims_executive_privilege_on_ff.html
Seems Holder retracted that accusation.
I find it very interesting and underappreciated that he retracted that accusation.
Vote next week
Here a phone numbers and addresses of congress critters. Let them hear from you. As many as thirty Rats may vote with the majority.
Holder feet to the fire!
Ban the sale of high capacity mags and or semi-auto rifles?
I mean, really. Obozo seems to be throwing all kinds of stuff up against the wall to see what sticks.
Damn, I thought I'd seen it all with Slick Willey. This guy makes Clinton look like a sophomoric little horn dog teenager unable to control his urges.
Obozo’s truly a Marxist.
I think they are only claiming EP for that part of the documentation set that involves discussions with the White House, so a partial claim is possible if there have been no releases of such communications (which I think is the case).
I don't think this is necessarily an either-or proposition. I think they are BOTH dumb as a post AND guilty as sin.
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The retraction doesn’t matter. The original accusation was out there for a couple of news cycles so it has become truth.
I’m sure they are busy wrting the script now for the next movie: “All the President’s Contemptuous Butt-Monkeys.”
What the hell does law have to do with it when you have the MSM covering for you and the threat of major riots as your ace in the hole
Now it’s 0bama’s turn to stonewall F&F. He will claim some alternate definition of Executive Privilege and defy anyone to prove him wrong. The MSM will carry that water into the gates of hell for him.
NOPE: Does not need to go to the Senate, thank God or it would die there.
The House can vote and if the yeas prevail, hold the most corrupt, biased, racist, Atty General this country has ever had, in contempt on its own.
Another aspect of claiming Executive Privelege is that Holder no longer has the option of submitting the documents before the vote takes place in the full House.
To do so would be a violation of Executive Privelege!
This WILL go to a full House vote.
Before the final vote to approve a contempt resolution against Holder, the committee passed an amendment with many reasons why Obama's executive privilege is not valid. Some of the reasons include the fact that the time Obama should have claimed executive privilege was 8 months ago when Eric Holder was first called to testify, and also the fact that the president has not even claimed executive privilege and instead they have heard it from the DOJ who is not authorized to invoke the privilege.
So has the White House (aka Obama) actually invoked the much ballyhooed Executive Privilege or hasn't it?
Shows more stupid than anything to me. Really by this point shouldn’t they all know it never works. No president has ever gotten executive privilege to stick. Of course with an election he’s looking like he might lose looming it might actually work for him, just drag the process out another few month and nobody will care.
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holders request to obama
where is obamas reply?????
Historically most such pardons are issued in the last couple of days the President is in office. In other words, sometime in January before the new POTUS is sworn in.
Thank you for this post & hoosiermama for the ping.
I’m wondering if they panicked & outed themselves accidentally. Anyway, it’s done now. What’s really beautiful is that there are at least a few dems who know it- and most wondrous of all, they aren’t getting immediately piled on. That’s *really* unusual.
Another aspect of this that has gone completely unnoticed...since F&F involved running guns across an international border, the State Department had to have known about it and approved....meaning Hilliary Clinton is involved.
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