Posted on 10/26/2014 3:13:23 PM PDT by Nachum
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been trying to investigate the Fast and Furious scandal for years, but has been stymied by the Obama administration’s stonewalling. The House committee was willing to narrow its request for Department of Justice documents to an extraordinary degree; ultimately, the committee asked only that the Obama administration produce documents after February 4, 2011, relating to the false letter to Congress that bore that date, and the process by which Eric Holder’s DOJ decided to withdraw that letter. Notwithstanding this narrow scope, the Obama administration has stiffed the House committee for three years, asserting executive privilege over virtually all of the documents encompassed by the committee’s request. We first wrote about DOJ’s privilege claims, which I termed “frivolous,” here.
Independently, Judicial Watch served a Freedom of Information Act request for the same documents that were requested by the House committee. When the Obama administration refused to produce them on the same privilege grounds, Judicial Watch sued. The court finally ordered DOJ to produce a “Vaughn index,” listing the documents being withheld and providing enough information about them to assess the grounds asserted. The administration tried to put that production off until after the election, but the court required that it be produced last week. I made some initial observations about the Vaughn index here, noting that emails between Eric Holder and his wife and mother had been withheld based on the “deliberative process” privilege.
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EXEMPT Issa, EXEMPT Cummings and the other EXEMPT criminals
laugh, when they meet, that only 9% of Americans support
their obstruction of justice and misprision of felony
.... and that they have gotten away with it.
Nixon-watergate cover-up
The hero of Benghazi; Benghazi, IRS, F&F, Obamacare 600 million for non working web site, Mismangement of ebola, ISIS let them build up.
No comparison, but who still has his job?
Sam Irvin would not have allowed the Kabuki
theatre of this corrupt, EXEMPT Congress that
has let their King send wave after wave of bioWMD
against the America people (because they are white
Americans and not Moslem).
What kind of world has this become after 911, where
the EXEMPT Congress give ARMS to al Qaeda,
and Ebola and EV-68 to American cities.
There is no accountability in the US anymore in public office and we have a person in the highest office who is bent on tearing down the country and there is no check or balance.
BTTT
HOORAY John Hinderaker! Great post; thread and comments at the source.
TREASON - continuous, agenda-driven, in-your-face, agency-abetted, media-complicit, representative-enabled, ongoing...
“Sam Irvin would not have allowed the Kabuki
theatre”
He absolutely would have if Nixon had been a Democrat. The Democrat congress covered up far worse crimes of Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Johnson.
Watergate was an old media coup that unseated an elected Republican that the old media hated.
If Issa started sending the Sgt. At Arms out to slap handcuffs on people just maybe things would happen. Continuing to a accept “the dog ate my homework” excuses just ensures more excuses.
And I don’t even want to hear Issa’s excuses. If you don’t want to do the damn job don’t take it!
Bttt.
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