Executive privilege in fast and furious
A federal judge has rejected it:
A federal judge has rejected President Barack Obama’s assertion of executive privilege to deny Congress access to records pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, a gunrunning probe that allegedly allowed thousands of weapons to flow across the border into Mexico.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department’s public disclosures about its response to the so-called “gun walking” controversy undercut Obama’s executive privilege claim.
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Jackson said she wasn’t questioning the propriety of Obama’s claim of privilege, but ruling that the claim could not be sustained in view of other information the Justice Department had released on the topic, chiefly an Office of Inspector General report released in September 2012.
January 19th, 2016 at 6:36 pm
All parties have played the charade almost long enough to wind this administration down. Not guilty by years long time wasting but hey, at least they get paid to pretend to do something. No charges will ever be filed against anybody. Oh the dead border agent you ask, well that’s just the price of freedom for the glorious revolution.
January 19th, 2016 at 9:19 pm
Fred, you’re wrong about one thing: eventually some mid-level fall guy will get charged with something, resign in disgrace (but keep his pension), and then the charges won’t amount to anything. They’ll give a sacrificial lamb as a last resort. One day.
January 20th, 2016 at 6:08 am
Has the statute of limitations run out yet?
I think we are past five years.
January 20th, 2016 at 4:04 pm
As BATFE Agent Hope McAllister said on the audio recording made surreptitiously by one of the FFLs she ordered to sell guns to the straw buyers, Agent Terry’s death was “collateral damage”.