What in the sam hill is in these documents?Which he granted. More from Johnsen:
Last night, Chairman Darrell Issa declared that Attorney General Eric Holder had failed to provide sufficient documentation or a worthwhile-enough ‘briefing’ to forestall today’s scheduled contempt proceedings. Ahead of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s vote this morning, Holder finally decided to go straight to the top and ask his boss to invoke executive privilege on the outstanding documents included in last October’s Congressional subpoena.
Here’s another thought: Invoking executive privilege on this case is going to come off as a very dodgy and arrogant move. But the White House is willing to take on that bad press, and I can only presume that’s because whatever is in those documents… is much more damning than the alternative. Oh, the tangled webs we weave!Soooo . . . instead of cutting Holder loose as a liability, Obama, to his own apparent detriment, gives him a public vote of confidence by granting executive privilege. Those docs must contain an arsenal of smoking guns, no? Michelle Malkin:
Update: The blogosphere has often lamented about the mainstream media’s lack of consistent interest in the deadly Fast and Furious scandal — they wouldn’t want to report too thoroughly on anything that might harm their darling president’s image, you know. But President Obama asserting his supreme authority into the fray has made this the top story of the day. Just search for breaking news related to “executive privilege.” It’s exploding. Heh. No more sweeping this under the rug now.
And yes, this does give clear and unmistakable lie to the Holder spin that Fast and Furious was just a local, little nothing-burger contretemps out of Arizona that had nooooothing to do with DOJ and the executive branch. Executive privilege applies to communications in which the president, ahem, was directly involved.Ahem indeed.
Or, to go all conspiracy-theory on you, Holder has something on Obama.
Meanwhile, the contempt of Congress vote is still on. Enjoy!
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Sen. Grassley:
“How can the president assert executive privilege if there was no White House involvement? How can the president exert executive privilege over documents he’s supposedly never seen? Is something very big being hidden to go to this extreme? The contempt citation is an important procedural mechanism in our system of checks and balances,” he said.***
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Exactly! How can he claim executive privilege based on sensitive inter-office communiques when he claimed he was never told about F&F.
ReplyDeleteHe just cooked his rotten-azz goose...
Put him in the cell next to Holder and all the rest of the commie comgresscritters who are shielding Holder.
Yeah, this looks damning.
ReplyDeleteThen again, I thought Bubba Clinton cooked his own goose and we all know how that turned out.
This looks like a "lose/lose" for Obama the way I see it. Now, by virtue of "executive privilege" being invoked, every voter is free to conclude that the President knew all about this after all, lied to the American people, and is taking the "coverup" route before the election. The Romney Super Pacs should hit him on it every day... hard.
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