January 18, 2013

Holder squirms

From Matthew Boyle writing at Breitbart:
Holder Begs Court to Stop Document Release on Fast and Furious
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 �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 Watch�s FOIA request, and in mid-September the group filed a lawsuit challenging Holder�s denial. That lawsuit remains ongoing but within the past week President Barack Obama�s administration filed what�s called a �motion to stay� the suit. Such a motion is something that if granted would delay the lawsuit indefinitely.
A bit more:
The reason why Obama�s 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 didn�t stop the guns from being trafficked even though they had the legal authority to do so and were fully capable of doing so.
Holder needs to go. He is incompetent. Posted by DaveH at January 18, 2013 1:39 PM
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