Topic: Court Says Holder Can't Stop Fast And Furious Truth Search

[oldcoastie6468]

Court Says Holder Can't Stop Fast And Furious Truth Search
19 Comments

Posted 10/01/2013 06:19 PM ET
 
Scandal: The truth about how and why Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata and hundreds of Mexican nationals were killed with weapons supplied by this administration may yet come out as a court lets a lawsuit proceed.

The most transparent administration in history suffered a defeat Monday, when U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson turned down the Justice Department's request to dismiss a lawsuit seeking "Fast and Furious" documents hidden by Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department after President Obama invoked executive privilege.

The lawsuit was brought by Rep. Darrell Issa's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after the president asserted executive privilege to prevent records about the administration's response to the "Operation Fast and Furious" gun-running scandal from being turned over to Congress.

The administration's position was that the oversight committee's demand for information and documents was settled by a Feb. 4, 2011, letter to Congress in which Assistant Attorney General Ron Welch, in response to the investigations by Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley of the Fast and Furious "gun-walking" program run out of ATF's Phoenix office, stated that the "allegation that ATF 'sanctioned' or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons . . . is false."

The Justice Department refused to turn over any documents after the date of the letter, contending there was nothing more to see and Congress should just move on.

When Oversight sued to get those documents, the administration argued that if the lawsuit were allowed to proceed, every new request for documents would be unjustifiably subject to litigation.


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[LadyVirginia]

The Justice Department refused to turn over any documents after the date of the letter, contending there was nothing more to see and Congress should just move on.

Oh, there's a winning argument.  Why haven't other defendants used that? 

[oldcoastie6468]

The Justice Department refused to turn over any documents after the date of the letter, contending there was nothing more to see and Congress should just move on.

Oh, there's a winning argument.  Why haven't other defendants used that? 

Really? Seems like I've heard that once or twice - a month - from this administration.

[LadyVirginia]

The Justice Department refused to turn over any documents after the date of the letter, contending there was nothing more to see and Congress should just move on.

Oh, there's a winning argument.  Why haven't other defendants used that? 

Really? Seems like I've heard that once or twice - a month - from this administration.

I was being sarcastic. 

[oldcoastie6468]

I knew that! Just razzing ya a bit!!!! 

[LadyVirginia]

you got me

 

[oldcoastie6468]

 

[Libertas]

Wake me up when impeachment is initiated...

I think I could be in for a really long slumber...

[Finrod]

The Justice Department refused to turn over any documents after the date of the letter, contending there was nothing more to see and Congress should just move on.

Someone needs to tell Obama and the Justice Department that their midichlorian count is nowhere near as high as they seem to think it is.

[warpmine]

The Justice Department refused to turn over any documents after the date of the letter, contending there was nothing more to see and Congress should just move on.

Someone needs to tell Obama and the Justice Department that their midichlorian count is nowhere near as high as they seem to think it is.

Plenty of steaming pile though

[Libertas]

They are daring the Congress to invade the building and seize the documents...and the Regime knows the Congress is a bunch of candyasses...

The whole town needs to be purged...

[OldSailor]

They are daring the Congress to invade the building and seize the documents...and the Regime knows the Congress is a bunch of candyasses...

The whole town needs to be purged...

... and the asshats involved in running Fast and Furious need to be populating jail cells.  Most of them would look good in orange, especially Obama and Holder.   

Please, please please Father, let someone in the House grow a pair. 

[benb61]

They are daring the Congress to invade the building and seize the documents...and the Regime knows the Congress is a bunch of candyasses...

The whole town needs to be purged...

... and the asshats involved in running Fast and Furious need to be populating jail cells.  Most of them would look good in orange, especially Obama and Holder.   

Please, please please Father, let someone in the House grow a pair. 

Amen 

[AlanS]

They are daring the Congress to invade the building and seize the documents...and the Regime knows the Congress is a bunch of candyasses...

The whole town needs to be purged...

... and the asshats involved in running Fast and Furious need to be populating jail cells.  Most of them would look good in orange, especially Obama and Holder.   

Please, please please Father, let someone in the House grow a pair. 

Amen 

After the last budget cave, I'm not getting my hopes up. I'm starting to believe the country is lost.

[Libertas]

They are daring the Congress to invade the building and seize the documents...and the Regime knows the Congress is a bunch of candyasses...

The whole town needs to be purged...

... and the asshats involved in running Fast and Furious need to be populating jail cells.  Most of them would look good in orange, especially Obama and Holder.   

Please, please please Father, let someone in the House grow a pair. 

Amen 

After the last budget cave, I'm not getting my hopes up. I'm starting to believe the country is lost.

The land is fine, what infests great sections of it is a total loss soon to be written off and forgotten to all time...