Obama Asserts Executive Privilege On Fast And Furious Documents

[MADem]

142. I invite your attention to Elijah Cummings' lenthy statement on this matter,

as well as the DOJ press release.

You're repeating RW themes.

What you aren't grasping is that an investigation into this is ONGOING at DOJ. Their IG is grinding away at this even as I type. We're talking an internal DOJ investigation, grand juries, and associated work product.

Congress can do their own investigation, using their own staffers, their own resources, their own interviews, their own bloody effort, if they'd like. No one is stopping them.

They do not, though--and they violate federal law if they try--have the right to go into DOJ and steal their incomplete work product and wave it about like a bloody shirt for political grandstanding purposes. They do not have the right to Grand Jury testimony while a Grand Jury is still underway. They do not have the "right" to confidential work-product discussions which do not represent official departmental stances. They simply do not--and they never have.

And Issa--he is NOT investigating Terry's death, or anyone else's. He's not investigating gun walking, either. His focus is on DOJ--who did what to whom, and when. He wants to hang someone--preferably Holder, but he's desperate enough now to take a proxy and call it a win--so he can slink back to the NRA and say "See? See? I got one for ya, boss!"

You just aren't getting that Congress is NOT investigating F and F. They never have been. They are not trying to investigate what happened--otherwise they'd pull the string and go back to the Origins of the Species -- the Bush administration predecessor to this botched business. They simply want a head on a pike from DOJ without involving Dubya's people, even though Holder has already said publicly that the entire operation was a dreadful mistake, a mess, and ill-advised, which is why he shut it down.