Geee Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Investors Business Daily: Scandal: The president illegally asserts executive privilege to protect an attorney general who's either a clueless political hack, malevolent or both, withholding answers of who is responsible for a Border Patrol agent's death. President Obama's contempt for the rule of law hit a new low when, on the eve of a vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, he granted his AG's 11th-hour request to hide sought-after documents on Operation Fast and Furious under the cover of executive privilege. "I write now to inform you that the president has asserted executive privilege over the relevant post-Feb. 4, 2011, documents," Deputy Attorney General James Cole says in a letter that GOP Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa received just before Wednesday's hearing and vote, a letter that apparently was not mentioned in a last-minute meeting between Issa and Holder Tuesday night. Or maybe it wasn't the 11th hour at all, but just a long-planned final gambit in the cover-up of who made the decisions in a federally sponsored effort to provide Mexican drug cartels with sophisticated American firearms and who is ultimately responsible for the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry with these weapons? As Fox News anchor Brit Hume recently noted, speaking of Fast and Furious on the web-exclusive "Panel Plus" segment of "Fox News Sunday," "The stench of cover-up on this gun-running operation is very strong indeed." Executive privilege, as Issa noted in his opening remarks, can only be asserted when it involves direct presidential decision-making and communications. It cannot be invoked, legally, to prevent others in the chain of command from explaining their actions or responding to requests for information on their decisions in which the president is not involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTexan Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Obama's Executive Privilege Has The Stench of DEM Business as Usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 It must be bad or why waste the political fallout. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidesAPaleHorse Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Could it come to this? http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae277/RAPH6969/OBUMMER/51.jpg We can only hope.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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