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 over—the 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.
“Obama’s 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 Obama’s Nixonian assertion of executive privilege over these ordinary government agency records. Americans will be astonished that Obama asserted executive privilege over Eric Holder’s emails to his wife about Fast and Furious.”
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Nixon was a class act compared to Obama!
Nixon was integrity itself compared to this guy.
Those are 5 of the most futile words you will ever type, concerning this administration.
BS...... that is not nearly enough
If he disregards the people’s laws, then the people can disregard his laws
Is Mrs. Holder a private Citizen? If so, how can they claim E.P. when communicating outside of the executive ‘bubble’??
IE: Everything was so hush-hush I GMail’d the info to my wife....WTF?!
Yea, I always feel a bit of a tinge of guilt whenever I post my Milhous Obama. . .I met Nixon twice, once in office and once many years later in Korea during the Summer Olympics ('88). Both times he was very warm and gracious.
The reality is that the "evil Nixon" persona was overwhelmingly a liberal media invention and, whenever I post my Milhous Obama, I am lampooning this outrageous liberal caricature of Nixon. . .and to say that it is more aptly affixed to Obama. . .who fits it to a tee. . AND THEN SOME. . a LOT more "then some," in fact. . . .
So, I post Milhous Obama with sincere apologies to President Nixon. . .and I am hopefully that he may find some solace in the knowledge that IT DRIVES LIBERALS CRAZY!!!
I do believe Obama has indeed incriminated himself....oops!
But wait a minute here—he’s ALREADY A CRIMINAL..
Yup...that’s transparent alright.
Had ENOUGH Yet ?
So the office of the POTUS now includes the first lady.
I guess that would make the first lady a cabinet officer which means that the APPOINTMENT of the first lady must be ratified by the Senate.
Awe! How transparent of him.
Nothing says “Guilty” like invoking executive privilege.
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