Holder Begs Court to Stop Document Release on Fast and Furious

Slyhunter · Jan 18, 2013

Why what does he have to hide?

[h=2]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.[/h] 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 specifically [a]ll records subject to the claim of executive privilege invoked by President Barack Obama on or about June 20, 2012.
The administration has refused to comply with Judicial Watchs FOIA request, and in mid-September the group filed a lawsuit challenging Holders denial. That lawsuit remains ongoing but within the past week President Barack Obamas administration filed whats called a motion to stay the suit. Such a motion is something that if granted would delay the lawsuit indefinitely.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said that Holders and Obamas desire to continually hide these Fast and Furious documents is ironic now that theyre so gung-ho on gun control. It 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, Fitton said in a statement. Getting beyond the Obama administrations smokescreen, this lawsuit is about a very simple principle: the publics 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.
The only justification Holder uses to ask the court to indefinitely delay Judicial Watchs suit is that theres another lawsuit ongoing for the same documents one filed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Judicial Watch has filed a brief opposing the DOJs 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 Machenwho works for Holderfor prosecution. Despite being technically required by law to bring forth criminal charges against Holder, under orders from Holders Department of Justice Machen chose to ignore the resolution.
The second part of the contempt resolutioncivil contempt of Congressallowed House Republicans to hire legal staff to challenge President Obamas assertion of the executive privilege. That lawsuit remains ongoing despite Holders and the DOJs attempt to dismiss it and settle it.
Its unclear whats in the documents Obama asserted privilege over, but the presidents 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 publicand Holder claims he didnt read the briefing documents he was sent that outlined the scandal and how guns were walking while the operation was ongoingObama says hes using the less powerful deliberative process privilege.
The reason why Obamas 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 walked about 2,000 firearms into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. That means through straw purchasers they allowed sales to happen and didnt 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 citizensestimates put it around at least 300were killed with these firearms.
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...xecutive-privilege-Fast-and-Furious-documents

I want to know who knew what and when they knew it. I want to know who is responsible for selling weapons to foreign criminals.

I demand answers. The people have a right to know. Hypocritical liberals want to get tough on gun crime well here is the gun crime of the century, so get tough on it already.

happy fun dude · Jan 19, 2013

Accountability is simply not existent any more.

Transparency and accountability are required for democracy, but people don't get it.. Everything is stamped classified and the people are forced to take their LYING leaders word for it. And millions do exactly that.

People forget that the government works for them, NOT the other way around.

danielpalos · Jan 19, 2013

It is merely one more reason I don't believe the Right regarding our wars on abstractions; simply because they are not burdening the wealthiest with wartime tax rates.

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