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Not So Fast: Obama Administration Waits Until Election Eve To Dump Over 64,000 Pages In Fast and Furious Operation

holdereric260px-capitol_building_full_viewThe 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

484 thoughts on “Not So Fast: Obama Administration Waits Until Election Eve To Dump Over 64,000 Pages In Fast and Furious Operation”

  2. Paul, your attention toward me is becoming more than creepy and making me very uncomfortable, I suggest you step back and I think you should take your OWN advice.

  3. SWM, my friends in Austin do love living there and they are not rich. One of them is retired, worked as a caterer for many years. Another is a nurse. The others are musicians, also not wealthy.

  6. Squeeky, The conservatives I know love to go to Austin for the landscape and the fun. Do you really think that Abbot ,Perry and all those right wing crazies that reside there don’t like it? They love it. State government in Texas does not pay that well and one is vulnerable to the constant cutbacks. The people making the money work in high tech, real estate, banking,real estate development, lobbying etc and probably not the government. A young attorney in the AG’s office starts out at $44,000. Walk down the street to Baker Botts and get 160,000 plus.

  7. I don’t think generally unionization is as effective as it used to be. As we have seen, it has actually become more of a white-collar tool (do we still used “white-collar?). Pretty much anything else can disappear from the country in a heartbeat if they fear a rising wage expense.

  8. In the meantime our shiny bright new Congress is going to try to repeal Obamacare …..again, LOL! Oy! It’s getting to be fun right out of the gate.

  9. As I said yesterday Squeeky,
    If workers want those assurances they should seriously think of unionizing instead of complaining about people who do have secure jobs.

  10. @swm

    It isn’t the geography of Texas that irritates people about Austin. It is the nutty a$$ liberals who congregate there. Plus, I guess my argument that having a good job with benefits, a fair amount of disposable income, and little likelihood of getting fired or outsourced tends to insulate those people from the realities of life for most others just flew over everybody’s heads.

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

    1. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, THESE LINKS ARE DEADLY FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KEEP THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND. REALITY AND TRUTH CAN BE KILLING. HAVE A GOOD TIME AT DISNEY WORLD.

  13. Paul, I’m not trying to be insulting here, but sometimes you make absolutely no sense whatsoever. What it seems is, that you are attempting to do here IS cast aspersions on me, just WHAT assertions you are attempting to cast, I have no idea, but it’s creepy and I think you would be wise to stop doing so, or I will have to contact JT.

    1. Annie – if I make no sense, what are you worried about and what is there to complain to JT about?

      1. Paul, because by wording your comments to me the way you have worded them, you intimate that there IS something I should be afraid of you revealing somehow. Just WHAT the hell do you think I have to hide? Your repeated attention and cryptic comments directed toward me are tiresome and creepy. If you think you know ‘something’ about me, be a big brave man and reveal it. Or grow up.

        1. Annie – I think you should not disparage people. Have a problem with that?

  14. on 1, November 6, 2014 at 12:35 pmPaul C. Schulte
    Annie – I would be Veeery careful about casting aspersions.
    ******************************
    Paul, why? Explain your somewhat weird threatening comment. Life is truly strange.

  15. SWM,
    In those fundamentalist churches there are whole ministries of former drug addits and alcoholics. They simply have traded an addiction to a substance to an addiction to a religion.

  17. Nick- Please try not to accuse others of being angry until you check your own. I like some of what you have to say when you say it without bitter misogyny creeping in. And, thank you, Professor Turley for finding the time to tamp down on the out-of-control comments.

  18. SWM, those mega churches must be so impersonal. Growing up in The Assemblies of God, drinking was strictly forbidden. If any of the church elders heard Squeek’s poetry they would have her on her knees in front of the altar begging for forgiveness from God and the Congregation. I find I odd to be so socially conservative and drink to excess. But hey, everything is on its head nowadays.

  19. nick, That why former baptists go to the megachurch. Drinking is acceptable. Lots of winos.

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