Obama Asserts Executive Privilege On Fast And Furious Documents

[JDPriestly]

43. There may be some legitimate claim of national security protection here.

The individuals and places involved in this action may still be alive and subject to retaliation. Also, the names of the specific agents who released the weapons and the places and circumstances in which the weapons were released are probably top secret. After all, there were probably what we would call double agents -- people who worked for the US but were thought of by the bad guys involved as working for them -- involved.

I am usually critical of the overuse of the Top Secret designation and would suggest that DUers watch the films about Watergate and American espionage including The Man Nobody Knew which tells the story of William Casey, an American spy in WWII, Viet Nam and the Nixon administration.

But this time, I think that claiming national security to protect the lives of agents may be appropriate and that Obama is doing the right thing.