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Obama Claims Executive Privilege Over 15,000 Fast and Furious Docs
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 10/23/2014 | BY: CJ Ciaramella

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2deadfeds; 300deadmexicans; atf; banglist; brianterry; dea; dhs; doj; executiveprivilege; fastandfurious; fbi; fubo; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; hsi; ice; jaimezapata; obama; terry; zapata
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1 posted on 10/23/2014 2:22:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

If they had nothing to hide....


2 posted on 10/23/2014 2:27:24 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Barack Milhous Obama.


3 posted on 10/23/2014 2:28:42 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


4 posted on 10/23/2014 2:30:51 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: SeekAndFind

As if we didn’t know....


5 posted on 10/23/2014 2:36:57 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: fhayek
Barack Milhous Obama

YOU RANG?


6 posted on 10/23/2014 2:38:07 PM PDT by McBuff
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To: SeekAndFind

“Most transparent administration in the history of the universe” or something like that.


7 posted on 10/23/2014 2:41:58 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: McBuff

THAT one is GOOD !!!


8 posted on 10/23/2014 2:45:10 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Nothing to hide. 0bama
9 posted on 10/23/2014 2:47:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Most transparent administration...


10 posted on 10/23/2014 2:47:57 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SeekAndFind

The bastArd should be impeached.


11 posted on 10/23/2014 2:50:35 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: SeekAndFind

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?


12 posted on 10/23/2014 2:51:11 PM PDT by 728b (Never cry over something that can not cry over you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Lawless 0ne does it again.


13 posted on 10/23/2014 2:52:05 PM PDT by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: 728b

“We are working on something under the radar” 0bama, prior to F&F


14 posted on 10/23/2014 2:54:26 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The ONLY transparency has been the medical records
and phone conversations of innocent Americans.

From Obola? NOT even a birth certificate.


15 posted on 10/23/2014 2:59:40 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: smokingfrog

He should, but he won’t. The Republicans are either scared or they have been bought off.


16 posted on 10/23/2014 3:00:36 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


17 posted on 10/23/2014 3:06:30 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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Criminals all in WDC.


18 posted on 10/23/2014 3:17:01 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Time to drag is skinny ars out in shackles and chains


19 posted on 10/23/2014 3:27:54 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: McBuff

Nice job, but Nixon must be turning over in his grave.


20 posted on 10/23/2014 3:28:30 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog ( Obama - WORST president in the history of the USA)
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