Thursday, October 23, 2014

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

Via Jonathan


Judicial Watch announced today that it received from the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) a “Vaughn index” 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 subsequent September 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.

4 comments:

  1. I really hope that there is enough rope to go around!

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    1. Susan says she has plenty and I have the trees. :)

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  2. Rig the gallows like was done in Nuremberg ( despicable ). Turtle face Holder should hang alive all day long ( justice for treason ).

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    1. Rig the gallows like was done in Nuremberg

      You would think a civilized society would at least give one the choice of death and I would choose the firing squad as I imagine many others would. Only cowards would not give a fighting man the choice as was not given in Germany or Vietnam at the end and they have nothing but my complete disgust.

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