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.
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.