Issa says contempt vote on Holder is still on

[RugersGR8]

Good! But there are some if's and maybe's.

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/...ssa-says-contempt-vote-on-holder-is-still-on/
No deal: After meeting, Issa says contempt vote on Holder is still on
posted at 8:01 pm on June 19, 2012 by Allahpundit

 

[Glocktogo]

Gotta give it to Holder, he's got a brass set!

 

[Shadowrider]

How's this for transparency?

What in the sam hill is in these documents?

Last night, Chairman Darrell Issa declared that Attorney General Eric Holder had failed to provide sufficient documentation or a worthwhile-enough ‘briefing’ to forestall today’s scheduled contempt proceedings. Ahead of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s vote this morning, Holder finally decided to go straight to the top and ask his boss to invoke executive privilege on the outstanding documents included in last October’s Congressional subpoena. From Katie Pavlich, live on the Hill:

Just 15 minutes before the House Oversight Committee vote against Attorney General Eric Holder takes place, the Department of Justice has asked the White House to insert Executive Privilege for all Operation Fast and Furious documents according to Chairman Issa’s press secretary Becca Watkins.

Fox News is reporting that The Most Transparent Administration Ever has granted Holder’s request and will indeed allow him executive privilege to withhold the documents.

President Obama has granted an 11th-hour request by Attorney General Eric Holder to exert executive privilege over Fast and Furious documents, a last-minute maneuver that appears unlikely to head off a contempt vote against Holder by Republicans in the House.

Executive privilege is not a common tactic — the president’s authority can still be overturned (don’t you just love checks and balances?), but this could mean a showdown between our several branches of government. Doesn’t exactly do much to bolster the White House’s story that ‘this isn’t a cover-up’ and ‘the higher-ups were uninvolved in this operation,’ does it?

Regardless, the contempt vote is scheduled to move forward. If the Oversight Committee votes yes (and it looks like they will), that moves the proceedings over to the House. If the full House votes to hold Holder in contempt, it goes to a grand jury, and if a grand jury indicts Holder, it goes to trial.

Updates to follow…

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/...ecutive-privilege-on-subpoenaed-ff-documents/

 

[RugersGR8]

http://washingtonexaminer.com/holde...m-knew-about-fast-and-furious/article/2500157
Holder retracts claim Bush team knew about Fast and Furious
June 20, 2012

Grassley, "This is the second time in nearly seven months that the Department has gotten its facts wrong about gunwalking."....."In his eagerness to blame the previous administration, Attorney General Holder got his facts wrong."

 

[Werewolf]

President Obama has granted an 11th-hour request by Attorney General Eric Holder to exert executive privilege over Fast and Furious documents

When it comes to the obamanation the term Imperial Presidency takes on a whole new meaning.

 

[Shadowrider]

Is anybody following this? It's getting pretty crazy. If he was a repub, the .prez would already be impeached. This is bigger than Watergate ever thought about being.