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Obamas Claim of Executive Privilege: Its Frivolous | Power Line
...the House committee has narrowed its subpoena to an extraordinary degree. The public may not be aware that what we are talking about here is not some vast universe of documents relating to Fast and Furious, but rather, as Holder acknowledges, a tiny subset: The Committee has made clear that its contempt resolution will be limited to internal Department documents from after February 4, 2011, related to the Departments response to Congress. February 4 was the date of DOJs letter which falsely represented to Congress that Fast and Furious did not involve deliberately allowing guns to make their way across the border to the cartels. DOJ withdrew that letter on December 2, 2011, ten months later. So Issa is trying to obtain only DOJ communications relating to the false letter, and the process by which DOJ concluded that the letter was indefensible, and decided to retract it. This represents an extraordinary concession on Issas part. I cannot imagine that, in Issas position, I would have let the administration off so easily....
In other words, they are trying to figure out why they were BLATANTLY LIED TO by the Obama administration.