Posted on 10/23/2014 2:22:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Obama administration is claiming executive privilege over more than 15,000 documents related to Operation Fast and Furious, including correspondence between Attorney General Eric Holder and his wife, according to records received Wednesday night by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.
Last month, a federal judge ordered the Justice Department to release to Judicial Watch the list of documents, known as a Vaughn index, that it is withholding from the public, calling its requests for further delays unconvincing.
The 1,307-page Vaughn index lists 15,662 documents related to Operation Fast and Furious that the Obama administration is asserting executive privilege overthe first time that full list and description of the records has been released.
According to Judicial Watch, the withheld documents include communications between top officials at the Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), as well as with the United States Ambassador to Mexico.
The Obama administration is also asserting executive privilege over nearly 20 emails between Holder and his wife Sharon Malone.
Obamas executive privilege claims over these records are a fraud and an abuse of his office, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in a statement. There is no precedent for President Obamas Nixonian assertion of executive privilege over these ordinary government agency records. Americans will be astonished that Obama asserted executive privilege over Eric Holders emails to his wife about Fast and Furious.
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If they had nothing to hide....
Barack Milhous Obama.
Holders biggest regret not getting gun control-he tried his best, but no regrets over dead Americans and Mexicans from his idiotic gun running. what an example of an agenda driven liberal. damn the consequences.
As if we didn’t know....
YOU RANG?
“Most transparent administration in the history of the universe” or something like that.
THAT one is GOOD !!!
Most transparent administration...
The bastArd should be impeached.
Does a declaration of Executive Privilege imply that Fast and Furious goes all the way to the White House?
Is this not an admission that the White House was involved?
The Lawless 0ne does it again.
“We are working on something under the radar” 0bama, prior to F&F
The ONLY transparency has been the medical records
and phone conversations of innocent Americans.
From Obola? NOT even a birth certificate.
He should, but he won’t. The Republicans are either scared or they have been bought off.
He will release them after the election. He simply did not want to upset the voting cycle at this time. He did it for the people.
Criminals all in WDC.
Time to drag is skinny ars out in shackles and chains
Nice job, but Nixon must be turning over in his grave.
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