BREAKING: President Obama Turns Over Thousands of Fast and Furious Documents

[Valin]

Townhall/Tip Sheet:

Katie Pavlich

Apr 08, 2016

 

Just moments before Attorney General Eric Holder was voted in contempt of Congress by Republicans and Democrats in June 2012 , President Obama asserted executive privilege over thousands of documents related to Operation Fast and Furious. Holder was held in contempt for stonewalling and failing to turn over the documents to the House Oversight Committee. Obama granted the executive privilege request despite claiming to have no knowledge about Operation Fast and Furious when it was active from 2009-2010.

 

Now after years of court battles and a federal judge striking down the executive privilege assertion, Obama has finally agreed turned them over. From POLITICO:

 

 

 

Four years after asserting executive privilege to block Congress from obtaining documents relating to a controversial federal gun trafficking investigation, President Barack Obama relented Friday, turning over to lawmakers thousands of pages of records that led to unusual House votes holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt in 2012.

 

Justice Department spokesman Patrick Rodenbush confirmed that the administration does not plan to appeal. He argued that Jackson's ruling validated Obama's initial claim of privilege.

 

“The Department of Justice is pleased that the district court ... continued to recognize that the deliberative process component of the executive privilege exists and was a valid basis for the Department to withhold certain documents when requested by the House in 2011. Although the Department disagrees with the district court's conclusion that the privilege was overcome in this particular case by disclosures and statements made in other contexts, the Department has decided not to appeal the court’s judgment and has provided a production of documents to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform," Rodenbush said in a statement.

 

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[Smokin_Joe]

^{You really have to look at the documents released. Admittedly, I only picked a relative handful at random, but those consisted mainly of blank areas with "ATF" in them One was nearly 20 pages of the same, the equivalent of the black pages (from redaction) handed to the committee investigating the Fast and Furious in Congress.}

 

^{I will continue to poke around in the pile, so to speak, but hold little hope for any revelations.}

 

^{Everyone else, feel free: here is a link to the list}

 

http://www.judicialwatch.org/ff/