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
Mespo,
It was beyond ghoulish to make that poor dead woman be an incubator, against her family’s wishes. Only in Texas.
Squeeky those people need to unionize.
Annie:
My fraternity brother who lived there calls it unoccupied Texas. I call is the citadel against the zombie horde.
Squeeky my Austin friends aren’t rich.
@NickS
I am sure that they are both nice places to live, but it is kind of like the 1% lording it over people who don’t have a yacht. If you have a good government job with benefits, then life is easier for you. You have job security and a decent or higher type paycheck. You don’t have the same kind of problems that people have who work for a home builder, or Wal Mart, or for themselves. People in that sphere, have to face lay-offs and firings or hours reductions. Most of these employees have to constantly justify their employment, or it’s out the door.
Marie Antoinette was a piker compared to your average White Liberal.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Mespo, Austin is truly an island of humanity in Texas. Years ago I visited Dallas Fort Worth, ugh, hated it.
I think we may have some progression from denial to anger. Or maybe it’s all just a bit muddled, like a good old fashioned cocktail.
Squeeky, I have two Navy Mom friends in Austin and through them a few musician friends. When I went to Austin to visit my friend, she had a house concert with some truly excellent musicians, all very liberal. It was an wonderful evening of music and politics. I love Austin.
Annie:
Overall, Texas is pretty dumb like a lot of Red states:
http://www.higheredinfo.org/dbrowser/?level=nation&mode=data&state=0&submeasure=27
Hey, you don’t think ….
Swueeky, My bride went to see Lyle Lovett on Sunday in Madison. That has to be the 5th time @ least. He didn’t sell out.
Good lord, I wonder how some people can think no one else noticed there haven’t been any missing comments? I’m pretty sure most people noticed it, lol.
Squeeky, Madison is just like Austin. Only they’re much fatter, and more constipated, from all the cheese.
@Annie
Well, when you have more disposable income, then there is more money to spend on things like the arts and music. And yes, Texas has some fine musicians. Here is one. I want to be able to play and sing like her one day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNtNdXzc1_U
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Good musicians there too. Texas Government must like music. Sounds like the most civilized place in Texas.
I always like to make positive comments. And, I am observant. I have taken note there have been no eaten comments for maybe a week or ten days. Someone fixed that problem. Since I hammered away that the problem was unacceptable let me be the first to say, THANK YOU, to whomever fixed it. And, on another positive note, JT and many of us have complained about hotels charging for Wifi. I just got an email from Marriott today. If you are a member of their rewards program, wifi will be free @ all their properties, beginning in January. I think it was a Marriott JT complained about the last time? If you voice your displeasure, good companies listen and respond. The same holds true for politicians. There are too few of the latter.
Nick – why wait for January? Why not free wifi now?
Hmmm. I wonder why Austin is sooo different from the rest of Texas??? Oh, I know! It isn’t because the people there are just smarter than the rest of Texas. It’s really the same reason that people in New York are sooo Big Bank friendly. It’s where they get their money. The capital of Texas is Austin, sooo that is where you have a lot of government employees and university employees, etc. Sooo, sure they believe in government there! That’s who pays for their life style.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Such pure baloney, I live in the most Republican county in Wisconsin, Waukesha County.
The German Texans got some bad wurst and exclaimed “Ach du Lieber der Obama ist schreklich!”
SWM, Hardcore Dems and Rep love to isolate themselves and “live w/ their own kind.” It’s not healthy.
SWM,
It’s that pesky cognitive dissonance again.