Obama Asserts Executive Privilege On Fast And Furious Documents

[Bradical79]

72. What are you talking about?

I gave my opinion on how it looks, and that it is a fact that people died. That's how this all started in the first place. I don't need to read secret documents to know that people were killed. As for GOP talking points, they're easy points to make. You've got memos showing that Holder likely lied about his knowledge of the operation, retractions on earlier statements he and his office made, and now the President claiming executive privilege over documents when he claims his administration knew nothing about it. While there could be other reasons to claim executive privilege, it certainly looks like him protecting a friend to the public rather than doing his job as executive and getting to the bottom of the matter. And it looks particularly bad after all his claims of wanting increased transparency. I'm sorry for giving a view I think is fairly realistic rather than the cheerleader view, but that's what I'm seeing.

I don't think it will cost him the election, but it could make it close enough to be in doubt (for Republicans to steal). At least we can count on Romney's ability to make out of touch statements on a regular basis and inability to state his position on any important policy matter.