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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. Well, all the civil and uncivil stuff has some real profound philosophical implications and has generated another Irish Poem!

    Civil Rites???
    An Irish Poem by Squeeky Fromm

    Oh whither the Comment Uncivil,
    Which causes the Reader to shrivel?
    Is it rude to reply
    With a comment sooo wry. . .
    If’t original comment was drivel???

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

  2. Nick,

    You even admitted to using other names on this blog. It’s all in the archives…unless those comments were deleted.

  4. I see Elaine as a seeker of the truth. I was told that there were some posters with hundreds. That was before your time nick so I guess you are not the king.

    1. Elaine – why don’t you do us all a favor and dig it out of the archives. Let’s see if Nick had as many as Annie?

  8. Elaine, you may have no idea just how right you are, lol! It’s a pattern, I’ve seen it for over two years now.

  11. @Elaine

    Uh, RIL is primarily a LEGAL blog. Other websites have a much broader focus and go into different areas like culture, politics, philosophy, and just general social stuff, if you know what I mean. I would sure think that politically oriented blogs would, and should, cover the overwhelming political defeat of the Democrats.

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

  12. Paul, The conservative women here never cry foul when they’re thrown a high and inside fastball. They’re real feminists.

  14. SWM, Is there a problem w/ people using their own money to purchase ANY superior product or service?

  15. Squeeky, You are the best, woman. A real feminist who doesn’t need a man to rescue her.

  17. Squeeky never ever attacks others with her ‘poetry’, does she? If one cloaks insults in poetry does it pass the civility test?

  20. HEADLINE: Girl reporter savagely attacked at law blog! Oh, poor thing. It’s a good thing there is a knight in shining armor here who has come to the rescue.

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