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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”

  1. Says the man who tattles to the blog owner because he thinks people are picking on him when they disagree with him and respond to his insults and attacks. Almost too funny for words!

  2. @swm

    You and your fellow Democrats are to blame for a lot of Arizona’s woes. You guys are sooo busy courting Hispanic votes so that White Liberals can stay in power, that you either don’t see, or refuse to admit, the problems you are causing in the border states.

    I think it is really tacky of you to try to blame Brewer for the problems caused by you and yours.

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

  3. Some want permission to get away with rank misogynism. Permission denied. It wil continued to be called out by decent people and intrusive cryptic comments about someone’s personal life will be reported.

  4. raff, mespo and a few others are paternalistic. They think that women need to be treated differently than men. Being a person who truly respects women, I KNOW they can be treated no differently than I treat a man. This CONSTANT conflict is tedious. When you treat women like they are special flowers you are looking down upon them. I look them straight in the eye. And, the women here who love for daddy to come in and protect them need to deal w/ their daddy issues in therapy, not here. Buck up, buttercup. As Tom Hanks said, “There’s no crying in baseball.” You can’t have it both ways. Equality has it’s plusses and minuses. “Life’s hard, wear a f@ckin’ helmet.” Dennis Leary.

  6. scratch my first comment /mea culpa. Median isn’t about half the people making more or less….It is just the number in the middle.

  7. In order to get a real feeling for the income spread and economic realities, there should also be a comparison between the median and the average income. If the two figures are relatively close then there is not a wide spread between high and low. However if there is a significant swing one way or the other in the average as compared to the median then you know you have either a larger number of high earners or a larger number of low earners.

    Median all by itself is really rather meaningless. It also depends on size of the sample. The median in a small sample can be meaningless.

  8. Texas is kind of an extreme state,,,,lots of very wealthy people with concierge healthcare and lots of poor people with no healthcare.

    1. SWM – name 5 people that you know for a fact have concierge doctors in Texas.

  9. Median income is not the same thing as average

    For example in a small subset

    30 80 5000 Median is 80 which is the number in the middle. No matter how HIGH the upper end income is the median is just the income where half make less and half make more.

    It is NOT the average income.

    Statistics and the methodoligy make a huge difference.

  10. Paul C Just saw an article about Yuma. it was pretty grim. The unemployment rate is over 28 percent and much higher than that of Detroit at 7.9 percent. Better tell Jan Brewer to get to work and create some jobs.

    1. SWM – Yuma sits on the border. It is filled with illegals. Since the territorial prison shut down and the Yuma Air Station, there has not been much to do except sell gas to Californians.

  11. @Rafflaw

    You made a snide remark about Texas, and I snided you right back with Illinois. Your link was interesting, but I am not sure I agree with either their methods or their conclusions. The South is, in general, the Black Belt of the country and the Illegal Alien Belt, as far as percentage of the population. It is hard to make comparisons when you have such a large percentage of the generally unskilled population.

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

    1. rafflaw – being from Illinois, I really don’t think you have the right to take pot shots at Texas.

  13. “SWM,
    I’d love to see them try to impeach Obama over Executive order on Immigration Reform. They could kiss the Hispanic vote goodbye forever, plus they already lost the black vote.”

    I would LOVE for Professor Turley to weigh-in on that.

    For my own two cents, what Obama is proposing to do is not even remotely “Immigration reform” for the simple reason that the people he is wanting to grant amnesty to have all broken standing immigration law to be here in the first place. I don’t see it as any different than a president suddenly deciding that anyone who robbed a bank is suddenly innocent of that crime. “Reform” what exactly and why? No one has bothered to address this issue (by asking POTUS) in the light of our current economic condition how it is reasonable to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens (with more sure to follow with a verifiably UNSECURED border) when our own legal citizenry–1/4 of it–is not working. Is that not a total violation of the president’s highest charge which is to protect the American people and to do all he can to foster their prosperity? Legal immigration has been halted or at least severely curtailed in the past until the country could reasonably assimilate on-the-books (read: legal) immigrants. Can anyone seriously tell me that we are in any shape to assimilate the millions of people he’s wanting to write a blank check to?

    Lastly and directly to Annie, there are millions of people who voted on Tuesday that elected waves of candidates who were campaigning on stopping this blanket Executive-action amnesty among other POTUS marquee issues. I would assume the same people would turn out to support candidates-elect once they initiated actions to do so and would be happy to support and elect a president who shared this mandate, so I can only assume the hispanics you’re speaking of are illegal aliens themselves. I grew up in San Diego and have lived in California all my life. I can say that in my 30+ years of working life I’ve known hundreds of hard-working, green-card holding, and citizens-in-process hispanics and not one of them–ever–condoned or supported people who skirted immigration law and benefited from it. So, those hispanics at least would be absolutely in favor of stopping a blanket amnesty.

    1. keestadoll – if the President grants amnesty doesn’t that automatically raise the unemployment rate?

  14. Squeeky,
    That is an interesting comparison between cities or metro areas of much different number of citizens. How about if we look at statewide numbers across the country and compare right to work states against the rest and how the financial numbers add up for workers? How do you think that will turn out? http://www.nea.org/home/52880.htm

  15. @Rafflaw

    Hmmm. Let me do an update to this quiz!

    Guess which county is Travis County, Texas and which county is Cook County, Illinois!

    The median income per household in the county was $46,761, and the median income per family was $58,555. Males had a median income of $37,298 versus $30,452 for females. The per capita income in the county was $25,883. About 7.70% of families and 12.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.90% of those under age 18 and 7.60% of those age 65 or over.

    The median income for a household in the county was $45,922, and the median income for a family was $53,784. Males had a median income of $40,690 versus $31,298 for females. The per capita income for the county was $23,227. About 10.6% of families and 13.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.9% of those under age 18 and 10.3% of those age 65 or over.

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

  17. Annie,
    Those are the numbers you get in a right to work for less state.
    SWM,
    Haven’t the congressional districts in and near Austin been gerrymandered so much that the progressive city of Austin can’t get too many congress persons who are progressive? Or am I remembering that wrong?

  19. @swm

    Hmmm. Guess which county is Travis, and which county is Harrison:

    The median income per household in the county was $46,761, and the median income per family was $58,555. Males had a median income of $37,298 versus $30,452 for females. The per capita income in the county was $25,883. About 7.70% of families and 12.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.90% of those under age 18 and 7.60% of those age 65 or over.

    The median income for a household in the county was $33,520, and the median income for a family was $41,112. Males had a median income of $32,451 versus $20,913 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,702. 16.70% of the population and 12.90% of families were below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 21.80% of those under the age of 18 and 14.60% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

  20. SWM, or maybe they do know, but it’s more important to their narrative to misrepresent Austin, because Austin is a liberal city.

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