Why is Obama exerting "executive privilege" w/ Fast & Furious", when such action only applies to his direct actions involved with it?

I am sure!

All of the Above.

Obama is doing this for the same reason Richard Nixon did it.

America!!! How come you are not beating down the doors of congress demanding they do something!!!! We need a national tax revolt and stop payments on all bank loans and demand they and their media and judges all resign!!!!

America - The Divided States of Denial - Land of the Sheep and Home of the Slave!!!

Seems to me you're confused on executive privilege.. Has pretty much always been defined by presidents to include 'high level members of the executive'*. Perhaps remedial civics or political science classes are indicated here. That said anytime any president uses executive privilege it 'smells' bad whether it was Dick Cheney or Bill Clinton or Harriet Miers or Barrack Obama. In the Bush Admin 'High Levels' even extended to the relatively lowly Sara Taylor - a political director. The entire investigation into fast and furious is almost as misguided as the program itself and the program itself, while a mess, was an inconsequential contribution of guns to Mexico compared to our lax laws that allow hundreds of thousands of weapons into both Canada and Mexico. About 80% of handgun murders in Canada are committed with handguns smuggle in from the US. That's not an export to be proud of.

It would seem that that is the case. Here's what Judge Andrew Napolitano says about it:

"Executive privilege protects communications with the president, the human being of the president, not with people that work for him and the Justice Department," Judge Andrew Napolitano said on FOX News today.

"If the attorney general sat down and discussed it with the president, he probably doesn't want the Congress and the public to know that, because we know of the awful events that occurred as a result of the Fast and Furious escapade. But we also know that executive privilege only pertains to military, diplomatic, and sensitive national security matters. Now, was fighting the drug gangs at the border a sensitive national security matter? And, if so, was the President of the United States of America personally involved in making decisions as to how to conduct that fight? If that's the case, this has reached a different level and we now know why the attorney general has ferociously defended these documents," he said.

http://www.realclearpolitics....

Excellent point! "transparent administration"- ha ha ha. Just like all of his other 'candy offered to children to help find my lost puppy', I mean, how gullible...and sick.

The answer is BOTH. It is a cover up all the way. I'm so glad that OMAMA is following through on his word about having an open and transparent government.

Ol Barry just might find himself in some deep do-do over this. Could we be so lucky.

If they didn't know then who did?? Dictators, both of them.......

SO he can protect his buddy!!!

The Blood's got each others back you know that.

Probably to cover his own lying useless ass, he's involved and he doesn't want that revealed.

Smoking gun.

The most likely reason, of course, is that the "smoking gun" points directly at the Oval Office.

He is GUILTY! Remember when he was a senator and he lambasted the Bush administrations use of executive privilege. This shows that the scandal reaches Pennsylvania Ave.

"DIRTY BIRDS OF A FEATHER"...WE HAVE TRASH THAT NEEDS TAKING OUT IN WASHINGTON...

Obamas words, "Ah will have the most open regime" As Clinton said of Obamas words,


"JUST WORDS"

I agree with slick

NOBAMA 2012.

Even more curious is the question of how obama thinks can exert executive privilege over an issue he supposedly knew nothing about without raising a few eyebrows, and opening the door for impeachment in the process!

"The Obama administration admits the letter was in error, but they have always maintained that the knowledge of these tactics did not reach the top political appointees in the Obama Department of Justice."!

The above quote was taken from this source: http://www.foxnews.com/opinio...

Letter? How about Eric Holder confidently & arrogantly looking DIRECTLY into Cantor's eyes and telling him he had "I only found out about Fast and Furious over the last few weeks" (direct quote May 2011). If he's an Attorney, and he considers that not a solid answer- he should NOT be the head of the DOJ. People have gone to jail via his department over "lying" like this- how is it it's okay for him?

Because he can.

They are trying to run out the clock in hopes of limping accross the reelection finish line.

Maybe both! Wow, can't believe the implications! But it won't matter though to his followers, they only make decisions on impulse, like buying candy while in the grocery line. They don't have the common sense to think about how they will reduce their own interests in the future should a Republican President does the same thing. In fact, they should all support Bush going into war without Congress now. Just like Obama changing his mInd about addressing the deficit and instead deciding to stress the economy with another entitlement program in addition to the ones that started this mess. Great game plan (sarcasm). Wonder what would have happened had he stabilized the economy first???

throw both the bums in jail where they belong!

Obama has not felt limited before. Why start now?

Now there is no doubt about obama's involvement in F&F.; He's not just covering Holders butt but his own as well!

0bama knew, why else would they have dragged this out for so long?

I think the guilty parties in Fast N Furious should be charged with Treason and punished accordingly.

I think both and it is a case of CYA on a grand scale

big time. time to arrest them.