Obama Asserts Executive Priviledge For Holder, His Wife & Mothers Email Exchanges In Fast & Furious

[Steve_McGarrett]

So, does this mean Holder, his wife & Mother were sharing classified information? If not classified, do they work for any of these Agencies? Me thinks this would fall under the Espionage ACT and/or RICO(at the least). This is big. What are they hiding?





Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim for Holder s Wife - Judicial Watch

 

[Jackson]

Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim for Holder’s Wife

Judicial Watchannounced today that it received from the ObamaDepartment of Justice(DOJ) a “Vaughnindex” detailing records about the Operation Fast and Furious scandal. The index was forced out of the Obama administration thanks to JW’s June 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and subsequentSeptember 2012 FOIA lawsuit(Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice(No. 1:12-cv-01510)). A federal court had ordered the production over the objections of the Obama Justice Department.

The document details the Attorney General Holder’s personal involvement in managing the Justice Department’s strategy on media and Congressional investigations into the Fast and Furious scandal. Notably, the document discloses that emails between Attorney General Holder and his wife Sharon Malone – as well as his mother – are being withheld under an extraordinary claim of executive privilege as well as a dubious claim of deliberative process privilege under the Freedom of Information Act. The “First Lady of the Justice Department” is a physician and not a government employee.

This is the first time that the Obama administration has provided a detailed listing of all records being withheld from Congress and the American people about the deadly Fast and Furious gun running scandal. The 1307-page “draft”Vaughnindex was emailed to Judicial Watch at 8:34 p.m. last night, a few hours before a federal court-ordered deadline. In its cover letter, the Department of Justice asserts that all of the responsive records described in the index are “subject to the assertion of executive privilege.”

Based on a preliminary review of the massive document, Judicial Watch can disclose that the Vaughn index reveals:

· Numerous emails that detail Attorney General Holder’s direct involvement in crafting talking points, the timing of public disclosures, and handling Congressional inquiries in the Fast and Furious matter.

· President Obama has asserted executive privilege over nearly 20 email communications between Holder and his spouse Sharon Malone. The administration also claims that the records are also subject to withholding under the “deliberative process” exemption. This exemption ordinarily exempts from public disclosure records that could chill internal government deliberations.

· Numerous entries detail DOJ’s communications (including those of Eric Holder) concerning the White House about Fast and Furious.

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· The scandal required the attention of virtually every top official of the DOJ and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Communications to and from the United States Ambassador to Mexico about the Fast and Furious matter are also described.

· Many of the records are already publicly available such as letters from Congress, press clips, and typical agency communications. Ordinarily, these records would, in whole or part, be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Few of the records seem to even implicate presidential decision-making and advice that might be subject to President Obama’s broad and unprecedented executive privilege claim.

· Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton criticized President Obama and his disgraced Attorney General in a statement today:

· This document provides key information about the cover-up of Fast and Furious by Attorney General Eric Holder and other high-level officials of the Obama administration. Obama’s executive privilege claims over these records are a fraud and an abuse of his office. There is no precedent for President Obama’s Nixonian assertion of executive privilege over these ordinary government agency records. Americans will be astonished that Obama asserted executive privilege over Eric Holder’s emails to his wife about Fast and Furious.

Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim for Holder s Wife - Judicial Watch

We can see why these two were bedtime fellows...a strong loyalty there!

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim for Holder’s Wife

Judicial Watchannounced today that it received from the ObamaDepartment of Justice(DOJ) a “Vaughnindex” detailing records about the Operation Fast and Furious scandal. The index was forced out of the Obama administration thanks to JW’s June 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and subsequentSeptember 2012 FOIA lawsuit(Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice(No. 1:12-cv-01510)). A federal court had ordered the production over the objections of the Obama Justice Department.

The document details the Attorney General Holder’s personal involvement in managing the Justice Department’s strategy on media and Congressional investigations into the Fast and Furious scandal. Notably, the document discloses that emails between Attorney General Holder and his wife Sharon Malone – as well as his mother – are being withheld under an extraordinary claim of executive privilege as well as a dubious claim of deliberative process privilege under the Freedom of Information Act. The “First Lady of the Justice Department” is a physician and not a government employee.

This is the first time that the Obama administration has provided a detailed listing of all records being withheld from Congress and the American people about the deadly Fast and Furious gun running scandal. The 1307-page “draft”Vaughnindex was emailed to Judicial Watch at 8:34 p.m. last night, a few hours before a federal court-ordered deadline. In its cover letter, the Department of Justice asserts that all of the responsive records described in the index are “subject to the assertion of executive privilege.”

Based on a preliminary review of the massive document, Judicial Watch can disclose that the Vaughn index reveals:

· Numerous emails that detail Attorney General Holder’s direct involvement in crafting talking points, the timing of public disclosures, and handling Congressional inquiries in the Fast and Furious matter.

· President Obama has asserted executive privilege over nearly 20 email communications between Holder and his spouse Sharon Malone. The administration also claims that the records are also subject to withholding under the “deliberative process” exemption. This exemption ordinarily exempts from public disclosure records that could chill internal government deliberations.

· Numerous entries detail DOJ’s communications (including those of Eric Holder) concerning the White House about Fast and Furious.

·

· The scandal required the attention of virtually every top official of the DOJ and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Communications to and from the United States Ambassador to Mexico about the Fast and Furious matter are also described.

· Many of the records are already publicly available such as letters from Congress, press clips, and typical agency communications. Ordinarily, these records would, in whole or part, be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Few of the records seem to even implicate presidential decision-making and advice that might be subject to President Obama’s broad and unprecedented executive privilege claim.

· Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton criticized President Obama and his disgraced Attorney General in a statement today:

· This document provides key information about the cover-up of Fast and Furious by Attorney General Eric Holder and other high-level officials of the Obama administration. Obama’s executive privilege claims over these records are a fraud and an abuse of his office. There is no precedent for President Obama’s Nixonian assertion of executive privilege over these ordinary government agency records. Americans will be astonished that Obama asserted executive privilege over Eric Holder’s emails to his wife about Fast and Furious.

Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim for Holder s Wife - Judicial Watch

We can see why these two were bedtime fellows...a strong loyalty there!

Yep!

 

[The Rabbi]

Oh, so I guess that scandal didnt go away, like Dems hoped it would.
To give EP to the wife is stunning. She would have marital privilege or somesuch. Something not right here.

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

Oh, so I guess that scandal didnt go away, like Dems hoped it would.
To give EP to the wife is stunning. She would have marital privilege or somesuch. Something not right here.

His mother got EP too!

 

[Antares]

This is how we know you BammyBots are stupid it is SUCH a "made up" scandal President Pig Fucker has had to claim Exec Priv twice.

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

I think the issue will not be emails TO his wife's account from Holder but will be emails FROM his wife's and mother's account written by Holder to other members of government regarding F&F. The point was to use a non-government email account thinking that those could not be accessed in any subsequent investigation.

 

[The Rabbi]

Oh, so I guess that scandal didnt go away, like Dems hoped it would.
To give EP to the wife is stunning. She would have marital privilege or somesuch. Something not right here.

His mother got EP too!

Its the wife that's telling.
Ordinarily a wife cannot be compelled to give testimony against her husband. That is spousal privilege.
So what was it that the administration was afraid of when they gave protection to his wife?

 

[Vigilante]

Song and Dance man....

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

Oh, so I guess that scandal didnt go away, like Dems hoped it would.
To give EP to the wife is stunning. She would have marital privilege or somesuch. Something not right here.

His mother got EP too!

Its the wife that's telling.
Ordinarily a wife cannot be compelled to give testimony against her husband. That is spousal privilege.
So what was it that the administration was afraid of when they gave protection to his wife?

I don't know but no wonder Holder resigned. He new this was coming