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Let’s recap what the Obama administration’s assertion of executive privilege over documents concerning Operation Fast and Furious did and did not do.
It did not call off the congressional dogs. The House Oversight Committee is pressing forward with contempt action against Attorney General Eric Holder. The Republican majority seems outraged by the action rather than deterred.
It did implicate the White House in a scandal about which it was supposed to know nothing. How else can they invoke executive privilege if the president didn’t have some knowledge? The move has also gotten mainstream and other non-conservative media outlets talking about Fast and Furious.
All in all, this is not what the administration intended when it decided to go the executive privilege route..
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lolwut| 6.20.12 @ 1:35PM
NIXON LIVES!
mike 3/505| 6.20.12 @ 1:46PM
In 2008, the Obama team was quick, decisive and ahead of the power curve. This time around, everyone and I do mean everyoner, is running rings around them. If the Obama team was a medical patient, the Doctor would have it on 500 mg of Lipitor to counteract the cholesterol from all the egg on its collective face.
Tim the Enchanter| 6.20.12 @ 2:45PM
Ah yes. The Law of Unintended Consequences. Gets 'em every time.
Al Adab| 6.20.12 @ 3:43PM
Imagine, executive privilege...and all these years I understood only nasty republican dictators tried that. Where are Woodward and Bernie now? It is true, "If hypocricy were oil DC would be Saudi Arabia".
CJW| 6.20.12 @ 4:49PM
You know that if the documents contained anything bad about Bush, Obama would disclose them.
Obama has no problem disclosing documents describing our interrogation methods, our secret cybernet war against Iran, military secrets, and the identity of Seal Team 6 and the Pokeystan doctor.
But executive privilige bars disclosure of documents that show the prophet in a bad light.
Al Adab| 6.20.12 @ 6:01PM
Fortunately W, truth is a defense. Have a great night.
Jackson | 6.20.12 @ 9:25PM
From Andy McCarthy at PJ Media:
"Executive privilege is a vestige of Richard Nixon’s desperate effort to conceal criminality in the Watergate scandal. The last thing Obama wanted to do, with the November election looming, was resort to the Nixon strategy (which, we should recall, failed in the end). And, again, if the Obama administration’s story was true, they would want to release the documents that support it.
They really don’t want you to see what is in those documents."
Bob S| 6.21.12 @ 12:03AM
Had the effect that Nixon's invoking of executive privilege had when he tried to cover up Watergate. This is Obama's Watergate, and if the Republicans press on to find the truth it will hurt Obama politically, possibly to the point that he will not be able to recover.
Poly Ester| 6.21.12 @ 9:16AM
Obama is so arrogant he thought by invoking Excutive Privilege that would be the end of it. He won, ya know.