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Obama Uses Executive Privilege To Hide Documents That Prove U.S. Illegally Sold Guns To Mexican Drug Cartels The Obama administration told a U.S. House panel that the president is asserting executive privilege and refusing to turn over documents sought by lawmakers related to a U.S. law enforcement gun operation. The Justice Department described President Barack Obama’s position in a letter today to Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican, who is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The panel is scheduled to vote today over whether Attorney General Eric Holder should be held in contempt of Congress for failing to provide documents sought by Issa’s panel. Issa, as the committee meeting began, said Obama’s move was an “untimely assertion” that “falls short of any reason to delay today’s proceedings.” Issa said the committee was proceeding with the contempt vote because Obama hadn’t invoked executive privilege in a formal communication with the House. The committee action would be the latest escalation in a standoff that began last year between Republican lawmakers and the Obama administration over Fast and Furious, a law enforcement operation that allowed illegal gun purchases in the U.S. an an effort to link the weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Guns in the program ended up “lost” and will turn up at crime scenes on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border for years, Holder told lawmakers last year. This is the first time Obama has invoked executive privilege, according to the White House.
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Obama Uses Executive Privilege To Hide Documents That Prove U.S. Illegally Sold Guns To Mexican Drug Cartels

The Obama administration told a U.S. House panel that the president is asserting executive privilege and refusing to turn over documents sought by lawmakers related to a U.S. law enforcement gun operation.

The Justice Department described President Barack Obama’s position in a letter today to Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican, who is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The panel is scheduled to vote today over whether Attorney General Eric Holder should be held in contempt of Congress for failing to provide documents sought by Issa’s panel.

Issa, as the committee meeting began, said Obama’s move was an “untimely assertion” that “falls short of any reason to delay today’s proceedings.” Issa said the committee was proceeding with the contempt vote because Obama hadn’t invoked executive privilege in a formal communication with the House.

The committee action would be the latest escalation in a standoff that began last year between Republican lawmakers and the Obama administration over Fast and Furious, a law enforcement operation that allowed illegal gun purchases in the U.S. an an effort to link the weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Guns in the program ended up “lost” and will turn up at crime scenes on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border for years, Holder told lawmakers last year.

This is the first time Obama has invoked executive privilege, according to the White House.

Source: occupyallstreets

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    Not only do Mexican drug cartels exist because of our draconian anti-drug laws, but the guns they use in their massacres...