Attorney General Eric Holder and his Department of Justice have asked a federal court to indefinitely delay a lawsuit brought by watchdog group Judicial Watch. The lawsuit seeks the enforcement of open records requests relating to Operation Fast and Furious, as required by law. Judicial Watch had filed, on June 22, 2012, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking all documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious and âspecifically [a]ll records subject to the claim of executive privilege invoked by President Barack Obama on or about June 20, 2012.â The administration has refused to comply with Judicial Watchâs FOIA request, and in mid-September the group filed a lawsuit challenging Holderâs denial. That lawsuit remains ongoing but within the past week President Barack Obamaâs administration filed whatâs called a âmotion to stayâ the suit. Such a motion is something that if granted would delay the lawsuit indefinitely. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said that Holderâs and Obamaâs desire to continually hide these Fast and Furious documents is âironicâ now that theyâre so gung-ho on gun control. âIt is beyond ironic that the Obama administration has initiated an anti-gun violence push as it seeking to keep secret key documents about its very own Fast and Furious gun walking scandal,â Fitton said in a statement. âGetting beyond the Obama administrationâs smokescreen, this lawsuit is about a very simple principle: the publicâs right to know the full truth about an egregious political scandal that led to the death of at least one American and countless others in Mexico. The American people are sick and tired of the Obama administration trying to rewrite FOIA law to protect this president and his appointees. Americans want answers about Fast and Furious killings and lies.â The only justification Holder uses to ask the court to indefinitely delay Judicial Watchâs suit is that thereâs another lawsuit ongoing for the same documents â one filed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Judicial Watch has filed a brief opposing the DOJâs motion to stay. As the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was voting Holder into contempt of Congress for his refusal to cooperate with congressional investigators by failing to turn over tens of thousands of pages of Fast and Furious documents, Obama asserted the executive privilege over them. The full House of Representatives soon after voted on a bipartisan basis to hold Holder in contempt. There were two parts of the contempt resolution. Holder was, and still is, in both civil and criminal contempt of Congress. The criminal resolution was forwarded to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald Machenâwho works for Holderâfor prosecution. Despite being technically required by law to bring forth criminal charges against Holder, under orders from Holderâs Department of Justice Machen chose to ignore the resolution. The second part of the contempt resolutionâcivil contempt of Congressâallowed House Republicans to hire legal staff to challenge President Obamaâs assertion of the executive privilege. That lawsuit remains ongoing despite Holderâs and the DOJâs attempt to dismiss it and settle it. Itâs unclear whatâs in the documents Obama asserted privilege over, but the presidentâs use of the extraordinary power appears weak. There are two types of presidential executive privilege: the presidential communications privilege and the deliberative process privilege. Use of the presidential communications privilege would require that the president himself or his senior-most advisers were involved in the discussions. Since the president and his cabinet-level officials continually claim they had no knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious until early 2011 when the information became publicâand Holder claims he didnât read the briefing documents he was sent that outlined the scandal and how guns were walking while the operation was ongoingâObama says heâs using the less powerful deliberative process privilege. The reason why Obamaâs assertion of that deliberative process privilege over these documents is weak at best is because the Supreme Court has held that such a privilege assertion is invalidated by even the suspicion of government wrongdoing. Obama, Holder, the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and virtually everyone else involved in this scandal have admitted that government wrongdoing actually took place in Operation Fast and Furious. In Fast and Furious, the ATF âwalkedâ about 2,000 firearms into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. That means through straw purchasers they allowed sales to happen and didnât stop the guns from being trafficked even though they had the legal authority to do so and were fully capable of doing so. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexican citizensâestimates put it around at least 300âwere killed with these firearms. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...xecutive-privilege-Fast-and-Furious-documents
There is nothing funny about the "Fast and Furious" incident. no matter whether right or left, it is about corruption, which if left unchecked, I don't think either of you will be laughing down the road.
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I make money everyday. Making money right now. I am here just to antagonize you rednecks on this site as your worldview dies before your eyes.