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<blockquote data-quote="Billybob" data-source="post: 1822771" data-attributes="member: 1294"><p>President Barack Obama invoked executive privilege on Wednesday for the first time since taking office to withhold certain Justice Department documents tied to the flawed "Operation Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling investigation from a House panel demanding them. Obama's 11th-hour decision, revealed in a letter from the Justice Department to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, did not derail the California Republican's plans to hold a vote declaring Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.</p><p></p><p>"I write now to inform you that the President has asserted executive privilege" over the documents, Deputy Attorney General James Cole told Issa...</p><p></p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-invokes-executive-privilege-holder-faces-contempt-vote-143710603.html;_ylt=AtP6RmkmcLePRZQg280Gi2qs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNtbmNtZXY3BG1pdANKdW1ib3Ryb24gRlAEcGtnAzFlNmJhOTc2LTAxYWMtMzBhMi04Y2U5LWM1NjdkY2JlOTBhMQRwb3MDMwRzZWMDanVtYm90cm9uBHZlcgNmNjAyNjA1MS1iYWVhLTExZTEtOTdmZi1iN2UyODc2NmIxMTg-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-invokes-executive-privilege-holder-faces-contempt-vote-143710603.html;_ylt=AtP6RmkmcLePRZQg280Gi2qs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNtbmNtZXY3BG1pdANKdW1ib3Ryb24gRlAEcGtnAzFlNmJhOTc2LTAxYWMtMzBhMi04Y2U5LWM1NjdkY2JlOTBhMQRwb3MDMwRzZWMDanVtYm90cm9uBHZlcgNmNjAyNjA1MS1iYWVhLTExZTEtOTdmZi1iN2UyODc2NmIxMTg-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Billybob, post: 1822771, member: 1294"] President Barack Obama invoked executive privilege on Wednesday for the first time since taking office to withhold certain Justice Department documents tied to the flawed "Operation Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling investigation from a House panel demanding them. Obama's 11th-hour decision, revealed in a letter from the Justice Department to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, did not derail the California Republican's plans to hold a vote declaring Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. "I write now to inform you that the President has asserted executive privilege" over the documents, Deputy Attorney General James Cole told Issa... [url]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-invokes-executive-privilege-holder-faces-contempt-vote-143710603.html;_ylt=AtP6RmkmcLePRZQg280Gi2qs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNtbmNtZXY3BG1pdANKdW1ib3Ryb24gRlAEcGtnAzFlNmJhOTc2LTAxYWMtMzBhMi04Y2U5LWM1NjdkY2JlOTBhMQRwb3MDMwRzZWMDanVtYm90cm9uBHZlcgNmNjAyNjA1MS1iYWVhLTExZTEtOTdmZi1iN2UyODc2NmIxMTg-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3[/url] [/QUOTE]
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