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Issa: Executive Privilege Reserved For Presidential Decision-Making

Susanne Posel, Contributor

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Darrell Issa, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman, wrote a letter to
President Barack Obama wherein he directly challenged Obama’s use of
executive privilege, essentially hiding certain documents concerning the
Fast and Furious operation.



There was a formal request that Obama provide “legal justification for
the privilege claim and a list of specific documents covered by it.”

Issa explained that according to case law, “executive privilege is
reserved for direct presidential decision-making.” By intimation, Obama
is admitting to have overseen the operation by his use of executive
privilege.



While Obama has asserted in public forum that he and Holder were not involved in F&F;, he is essentially lying by omission.



Issa reminds Obama that either his “most senior
advisers were involved in managing Operation Fast & Furious … and
the fallout” or he is hiding behind “a presidential power that you know
to be unjustified solely for the purpose of further obstructing a
congressional investigation.”





Holder, trying to bargain with the House Oversight Committee, offered
documents in exchange for the contempt charge dropped. Holdren spoke to
Obama in private, wherein he told Obama to use executive privilege
because the documents requested by the HOC would have “significant
damaging consequences”.



Last week, Holder advised Obama to use his executive privilege card concerning the internal documents of the F&F.;



James Cole, Deputy Attorney General for the DoJ, wrote a letter to
Issa acknowledging Holder’s “failure to comply with the Committee’s
subpoena of October 11, 2011” however they claim they have made an
“extraordinary effort to accommodate the Committee’s legitimate
oversight interests” and provided “over 7,600 pages of documents and has
made numerous high-level officials available for public congressional
testimony, transcribed interviews, and briefings.”



Issa mentioned Board Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s death and pointed out
that the gun that killed Terry had been shipped into Mexico for the drug
cartels by US agents.



The Terry family has been requesting for
over a year and a half for the US government to hold those responsible
within the government to “justice and accountability”. They recognize
that it is very “disappointing that [the Terry family] are now faced
with an administration that seems more concerned with protecting
themselves rather than revealing the truth behind Operation Fast and
Furious.”



Holder had admitted this fact in a letter written in February of 2011.
Seeing Holder retracted that statement several months later, Issa cites
that “lying to Congress is a crime”. All documents pertaining to that
denial will be subpoenaed by the HOC; specifically correspondence
between Obama’s administration and Holder between June of 2012, until
the claim of executive privilege.

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• Daniel 2012/06/30 14:18:28 (edited)
  

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  THE DNC is more evil and corrupt then the Communist's at least they don't lie and device like this! hell the Russians just say nunya to you. This administration is HELL BENT on destroying the Constitution and THE AMERICA our fore fathers fought for!, ok maybe not his forefathers but most Europeans, Spanish, French, English, African and Nordic Americans anyway. Don't THINK THE KENYAN's was helping us out. I know that Black African FREE Slaves fought like men and really kicked some British butt.
  
  
  
  NOT OBAMA FOR SURE ! THESE MEN ALL FOUGHT TO PROTECT FREEDOM
  
  OBAMA FIGHTS TO DESTROY FREEDOM AND THE CONSTITUTION !
  
  OBAMA'S CONTEMPT FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS UNMISTAKABLE. HE USES THE CONSTITUTION AS A BUTT WIPE, HE DESECRATES THE SPIRIT OFTHIS PRECIOUS DOCUMENT, THAT WAS PAID FOR
  WITH SO MUCH BLOOD AND HONOR !
  
  WHY DOES OBAMA DO THIS, ITS BECAUSE HE HAS NOTHING BUT CONTEMPT AND ZERO ALLEGIANCE TO THE CONSTITUTION AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
  
  
  
  OBAMA MAKES A MOCKERY OUT OF THE ALL THE BRAVE AND HONORABLE MEN & WOMEN THAT FOUGHT AND DIED FOR OUR FREEDOM!
  
  ONLY THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA BACK AND BELIEVE IN HIM. HIS WIFE, MRS CLINTON, NANCY PELOSI, REID, WATERS, BOXER, BIDDEN AND OTHERS ARE SERIOUSLY AMERICA'S ENEMY FROM WITHIN, THAT OUR FOREFATHERS WAR...

  THE DNC is more evil and corrupt then the Communist's at least they don't lie and device like this! hell the Russians just say nunya to you. This administration is HELL BENT on destroying the Constitution and THE AMERICA our fore fathers fought for!, ok maybe not his forefathers but most Europeans, Spanish, French, English, African and Nordic Americans anyway. Don't THINK THE KENYAN's was helping us out. I know that Black African FREE Slaves fought like men and really kicked some British butt.
  
  
  
  NOT OBAMA FOR SURE ! THESE MEN ALL FOUGHT TO PROTECT FREEDOM
  
  OBAMA FIGHTS TO DESTROY FREEDOM AND THE CONSTITUTION !
  
  OBAMA'S CONTEMPT FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS UNMISTAKABLE. HE USES THE CONSTITUTION AS A BUTT WIPE, HE DESECRATES THE SPIRIT OFTHIS PRECIOUS DOCUMENT, THAT WAS PAID FOR
  WITH SO MUCH BLOOD AND HONOR !
  
  WHY DOES OBAMA DO THIS, ITS BECAUSE HE HAS NOTHING BUT CONTEMPT AND ZERO ALLEGIANCE TO THE CONSTITUTION AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
  
  
  
  OBAMA MAKES A MOCKERY OUT OF THE ALL THE BRAVE AND HONORABLE MEN & WOMEN THAT FOUGHT AND DIED FOR OUR FREEDOM!
  
  ONLY THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA BACK AND BELIEVE IN HIM. HIS WIFE, MRS CLINTON, NANCY PELOSI, REID, WATERS, BOXER, BIDDEN AND OTHERS ARE SERIOUSLY AMERICA'S ENEMY FROM WITHIN, THAT OUR FOREFATHERS WARNED US ABOUT!

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