This will get past the House, but not the Senate. There’s the rub. It’s what Issa & Grassley do with it after the full Congressional vote that remains to be seen...
This will get past the House, but not the Senate. There’s the rub. It’s what Issa & Grassley do with it after the full Congressional vote that remains to be seen...
‘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
Does go to the Senate. He’s being voted on as Contempt of the house. Goes to prosecutor(apponted) or arrested by sargeant of arms (tried in House) or something similar
I believe you’ll find that a vote is required only by the house in which the contempt occurred. The Senate doesn’t vote on House of Representative contempt citations nor the House on Senate citations.