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  • Grassley: Federal judge should overturn Obama’s Fast and Furious executive privilege claim

    08/30/2012 7:28:04 AM PDT · by marktwain · 12 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 29 August, 2012 | Matthew Boyle
    TAMPA, Fla. – Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley told The Daily Caller that if a federal judge doesn’t overturn President Barack Obama’s assertion of executive privilege over Operation Fast and Furious documents, it’d be the worst abuse of the presidential secrecy power in its history. “Well, if he [a federal judge] doesn’t [overturn Obama’s executive privilege assertion], it’s going to be the most sweeping abuse of executive privilege in the history of executive privilege,” Grassley said in an interview Tuesday at the Republican National Convention. The House of Representatives voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal and civil...