Obama team: 'Fast and Furious' documents are privileged

Quote from Xygonn : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feat...redirect=1 This might be the video you're looking for.

That's the one, thanks!

I'm waiting for someone to come here and tell us that Obama was forced to do this by the republicans. I laugh everytime that excuse is used.

Quote from Danman114 : Man, Obama must have hated having to do this to bail out whichever croney would have been thrown under the bus by releasing these documents... Priceless.

Holder blew off Congress for as long as he could. It was getting too close to zero hour for whoever was going to take the fall.


'THE EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE".

http://drudgereport.com/

Quote from Numeral : Obama’s assertion of executive privilege turned this from a political back-and-forth between the DOJ and a congressional committee into a full-blown scandal ensnaring the president. What exactly is hiding in those papers that pushed Obama to take this risk?

so very true...until now it was only something that could lead to the AG being tried for corruption, perjury, weapons smuggling, etc....now that Obama has dragged himself into it, the stink will extend to him as well.

This could well be impeachable...Nixon was about to be impeached not because he was involved in the criminal activities of his underlings, but because he knew about it and covered it up, sort of like an undicted co-conspirator....now that Obama is essentially covering up with the AG and his underlings did, he might well be pulling himself into a pool of quicksand that will swallow him as well.

imho, this whole operation was crafted with Obama and his advisers, to try to show how easy it is for guns to be bought and smuggled, in order to make the case for stricter gun control...but then it blew up in their face and resulted in the deaths if US citizens and at least one border guard....so now they are trying to cover it up...but that is just my opinion (and that of many other observers) as to what happened.

There is no other reason why Obama would drag himself into this...he has thrown dozens of people under the bus when they became too inconvenient for him (from Rev. Wright, to Van Jones, to his own grandmother)...so why now add Holder to the pile under the bus? imho because the evidence trail woul lead right back to him....

Quote from Danman114 : Man, Obama must have hated having to do this to bail out whichever croney would have been thrown under the bus by releasing these documents... Priceless.

He's trying to keep Holder from being roasted.
Then again he's probably trying to keep himself from being roasted.

Quote from andyfico : Didn't Obama bash the Bush administration for invoking executive privilege back in 2007? I remember him saying something about invoking executive privilege when things get a little shaky. Hypocrisy at its finest. Yeah yeah I know but but but Bush did it too!

Surely not.....

Quote from Numeral : It will be interesting to see public polling on this topic. Will Americans be concerned about the President's actions? Or will this be viewed as solely being political?

It will be viewed as political as long as the Committee continues to ignore the involvement of the Bush admin in Wide Receiver. [orlandosentinel.com]

Quote : Gun-walking has long been barred by Justice Department policy, but federal agents in Arizona experimented with it in at least two investigations during the George W. Bush administration before Fast and Furious. These experiments came as the department was under widespread criticism that the old policy of arresting every suspected low-level "straw purchaser" was still allowing tens of thousands of guns to reach Mexico. A straw purchaser is an illicit buyer of guns for others.

Quote from andyfico : That's the one, thanks! I'm waiting for someone to come here and tell us that Obama was forced to do this by the republicans. I laugh everytime that excuse is used.

kind of: Sheila Jackson Lee blames Bush for Fast and Furious
http://washingtonexaminer.com/she...le/2500137
But then Sheila is a certified moron who always comes out with moronic statements, who only gets re-elected because her constituents are racist morons who only see her black skin, so take what she says for what it's worth....which is worth less than what my shoe has to say.

“We will not rest until every single person responsible for all of this, no matter where they are, are brought to justice.”

-Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) to murdered Agent Brian Terry's family.

Yeah...that was 2011...................let's see what he's saying now.....

Quote from 124nic8 : It will be viewed as political as long as the Committee continues to ignore the involvement of the Bush admin in Wide Receiver. [orlandosentinel.com]

sorry....you fell for yet another lie by Holder, Obama et al...Holder has now had to retract his statement once he was caught in the act of lying yet again...

don't you feel ashamed at yourself for being lied to by Holder and Obama, and then defending them, based on their lies?
anyway, get with your contacts in the DNC and let them know you need some talking points as to how to respond to these facts with new spin and delfection. I am sure they are furiously working on something to send to you and the other DNC plants in the blogosphere.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/hol...le/2500157

Quote : The Justice Department has retracted a second statement made to the Senate Judiciary Committee. During a hearing last week, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that his predecessor, then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey, had been briefed about gunwalking in Operation Wide Receiver. Now, the Department is retracting that statement and claiming Holder "inadvertently" made that claim to the Committee. The Department's letter failed to apologize to former Attorney General Mukasey for the false accusation. This is the second major retraction the Justice Department has made in the last seven months. In December 2011, the Department retracted its claim that the ATF had not allowed illegally purchased guns to be trafficked to Mexico. Sen. Chuck Grassley's letter and the Department's response can be viewed here-1.

BTW I wonder what would happen if an everyday shlub lied to congress, under oath, multiple times? I have a feeling they won't be getting off scott-free.

Other Holder / Obama blunders:
his involvement in Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich after evading the law for 17 years....usually pardons are reserved for people after a trial, not while fugitives on the lam...oh yeah, and coincidentally, Rich's wife then donated something like 1.7 million to the DNC and Clinton's library...how convenient, eh?
And let us not forget about dropping the charges against the NBPP in their voter abuse and intimidation crimes, proven and shown on video.

This AG is a disgrace, and needs to be thrown under the bus...the only reasons he is not are because 1) he is black and the president is (half) black, and 2) Obama is involved in those decisions and he knows he will go down with Holder.....in the end, he might end up going down with him anyway.

Quote from Radeck : sorry....you fell for yet another lie by Holder, Obama et al...Holder has now had to retract his statement once he was caught in the act of lying yet again... don't you feel ashamed at yourself for being lied to by Holder and Obama, and then defending them, based on their lies? http://washingtonexaminer.com/hol...le/2500157 BTW I wonder what would happen if an everyday shlub lied to congress, under oath, multiple times? I have a feeling they won't be getting off scott-free. Other Holder / Obama blunders: pardoning March Rich after evading the law for 17 years....usually pardons are reserved for people after a trial, not while on the lam...oh yeah, and coincidentally, Rich's wife then donated 1.7 million to the DNC...how convenient, eh? And let us not forget about dropping the charges against the NBPP in their voter abuse and intimidation crimes, proven and shown on video. This AG is a disgrace, and needs to be thrown under the bus...the only reasons he is not are because 1) he is black and the president is (half) black, and 2) Obama is involved in those decisions and he knows he will go down with Holder.....in the end, he might end up going down with him anyway.

Nic is lying? Say it ain't so.

Quote from 124nic8 : It will be viewed as political as long as the Committee continues to ignore the involvement of the Bush admin in Wide Receiver. [orlandosentinel.com]

In wide receiver there was an actual attempt to track the guns, so it's not really comparable to this where guns were allowed to walk with no attempt to track them.
But lets not let facts get in your way.
Besides that, even if what I say is not true, under no circumstance should we ignore the transgressions of the current administration because of transgressions committed by former administrations.
Wouldn't you agree?

Holder isn't lying, he simply misspoke as is proven by his retraction. I guess I'll try that next time I am in court.

Guys, you should run with this. Because America really cares about this. This is definitely how you're going to get Romney elected. Just say "Fast and Furious" over and over, because this is what really matters to unemployed textile workers and students who can't repay their loans and New Yorkers who are afraid of another terror attack.

Seriously, this is just like Watergate all over. Run with it.

Quote from Rebound : Guys, you should run with this. Because America really cares about this. This is definitely how you're going to get Romney elected. Just say "Fast and Furious" over and over, because this is what really matters to unemployed textile workers and students who can't repay their loans and New Yorkers who are afraid of another terror attack. Seriously, this is just like Watergate all over. Run with it.

Do you have anything besides a non-sequitur red herring?