obdummy hides holder behind exec privilege

I love Charles Grassley's response: “The assertion of executive privilege raises monumental questions. 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?”

“Until now everyone believed that the decisions regarding Fast and Furious were confined to the Department of Justice. The White House decision to invoke executive privilege implies that White House officials were either involved in the Fast and Furious operation or the cover-up that followed,” said Michael Steel, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner. “The administration has always insisted that wasn't the case. Were they lying, or are they now bending the law to hide the truth?”

I hope this spreads beyond activist gun folk and out into the general population. To me, this means Nobama has just admitted the WH was involved. I can just see the bumper sticker: Re-elect the Serial Killer

Steve

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Originally Posted by CrufflerSteve

I hope this spreads beyond activist gun folk and out into the general population. To me, this means Nobama has just admitted the WH was involved. I can just see the bumper sticker: Re-elect the Serial Killer

Steve

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Oh it has. All of the sport sites I visit are booming with this news. Even known liberals are now questioning Obama and holder.

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Originally Posted by aahorn

what % of the population knows and/or cares that our feds were running guns to drug cartels to create a case against gun ownership in barack hussien's possible 2nd term?

my guess.. about 10% maybe.

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I doubt that it's even remotely close to 10%. Sadly.

I beg to differ with it being an election year, I beleive this "little" story has become better known because as the election draws nearer, more people start paying attention to such events.
With this latest move of Obama's, now the mainstream liberal media MIGHT have to give the story more air time as well, because now, IT IS a story.

The direction of this country bums the shit out of me.

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Originally Posted by TRnCO

I beg to differ with it being an election year, I beleive this "little" story has become better known because as the election draws nearer, more people start paying attention to such events.
With this latest move of Obama's, now the mainstream liberal media MIGHT have to give the story more air time as well, because now, IT IS a story.

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And the more these stories are hit on news organization websites, the more they'll know there's interest in it, and if it means ratings, even MSNBC just might sell their messiah down the river (rather than go down WITH him)

Home run:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/here...asting-holder/



Erkel at his best-"Ooops, did I say that?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpwYh...5qbWOm0-NNo7Ag

Analyzing executive privilege: when can it be used?

According to an authoritative Congressional Research Service history of executive privilege, at least three important elements must be present for a legally correct assertion of the power. First, the communication the president wishes to withhold must bear on a core power of the presidency, such as the right to grant pardons or conduct law enforcement. Second, the communication must have come from or to the president or a close White House adviser. Third, the communication can’t contain info so unique that investigators can’t figure it out by looking elsewhere.

Read #2- So these documents to be protected came from the president or one of his advisers... and is related to F&F? HMMM

This is a good thing - it confirms the WH was involved, probably up to their necks, in it. Next step would be a special prosecutor, I guess. Not really needed, because Obama basically said "I did it" today.

I'm not so sure there's no way around Obama's assertion of executive privilege. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

Holder hasn't been thrown under the bus yet...but the bus is approaching.

Obama was caught between a rock and a hard place. If he didn't assert EP, the docs come out. If he does assert EP, it's a near admission he knew about F&F but it will make it harder and time consuming to get the docs. Maybe just enough time to get past the election. Then he won't really care...or at least he won't care as much.