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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Either You Were Involved in ‘Fast & Furious’ or You Are Asserting a Presidential Power That You Know to be Unjustified: Rep. Issa’s Scathing Letter to President Obama

Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House oversight committee investigating the Justice Department’s ill-conceived “Fast and Furious” program responsible for the 2010 murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, appears to have lost his patience with the Obama administration.

In a letter to President Barack Obama, Rep. Issa harshly criticizes the White House’s decision to assert executive privileges in order to withhold subpoenaed documents from the Government Reform and Oversight Committee.

Rep. Issa’s letter says the decision to withhold certain documents raises two very serious issues:
Either you or your most senior advisers were involved in managing Operation Fast & Furious and the fallout from it … or, you are asserting a Presidential power that you know to be unjustified solely for the purpose of further obstructing a congressional investigation.
To date, the White House has steadfastly maintained that it has not had any role in advising the Department with respect to the congressional investigation. The surprising assertion of executive privilege raised the question of whether that is still the case.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Looks like tomorrow -Thursday- is going to be a less than great day for the anointed one; Holder's going to be found in contempt with over half the Democrats siding worth the Republicans (that hasn't happened in years) and the SCOTUS is going to find ObamaCare unconstitutional by more than 5-4 (I'm holding 7-2), with the majority opinion stating that this entire matter was a contemptibly contrived attempt at power grabbing.

With many Dems avoiding the convention, fundraising falling way short of expectations, throngs of previous supporters abandoning him, and no new supporters jumping on his bandwagon, he might even start bawling like a little baby. FLOTUS will just pack up & go on a few more multi million $$ vacations, thumbing her nose and oversized buttocks at decency & common sense.