The Justice Department has previously been held in contempt by Congress and hit with increasingly tough court orders from a federal judge over its obstruction of efforts to secure evidence in the notorious Fast and Furious operation. Many have accused Attorney General Eric Holder of acting blatantly political in withholding documents to protect Democrats from backlash before the elections. As if to prove that view, the Justice Department waited until late on election eve to finally dump more than 64,000 pages of documents congressional lawmakers have been seeking for years. The timing was almost taunting in its impact. Guaranteeing that the content could not be viewed before people voted, the Obama Administration’s long obstruction resulted in this troubling image of a politically timed release. The Administration previously admitted that it would not discuss its plans for unilateral immigration action until after voters had gone home from the polls.
The election eve dump to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee involved 64,280 pages withheld for years by the Obama Administration.
The Justice Department has made a series of statements about the operation that proved false and Holder has been personally accused of false statements.
The document dump contains heavily redacted copies which will likely continue the fight over the right of the oversight committee to review the evidence in the operation.
Source: CNN
It’s hard to find experienced people on this topic, however, you sound like you know what you’re talking about!
Thanks
Is there a link for these documents? I can’t find them on the DOJ site but that may be because I am not as good at searching the site as others.
Nick Spinelli has had a comment deleted under the civility rule.
Nick,
Before I forget, who was the weekend blogger that was admonished? What do you mean by the term “admonished”?
Paul,
It doesn’t matter to me.
Nick,
You are claiming that Prof. Turley is paternalistic? ” JT has a good dose of that old timed paternalism. He has a tough time dealing w/ women, he can be manipulated by them. We all have our weaknesses.” Wow.
Annie,
Methinks these fellas are grasping at straws. I think we should give them an “A” for effort…and we should stop bullying the poor boys.
😉
What is uncivil?
Annie – I am not even sure you know what ‘reflects well on you’ actually means. And as you can see, you did exactly what I described you would do in my 11:19 comment.
It appears that some are trying to ressurect today’s earlier incivility.