Posted January 19, 2016 5:47 pm by Comments

By Robert Farago

politco.com reports that “U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department’s public disclosures about its response to the so-called “gun walking” controversy [a.k.a., Operation Fast & Furious] undercut Obama’s executive privilege claim.” Translation: that train has left the station. Executive privilege this. Hand over the documents bub. We’re talking about the docs that . . .

U.S. Attorney General Holder withheld from lawmakers, earning him a Contempt of Congress citation. Docs that the President then shielded with a claim of Executive Privilege — despite claiming that he knew nothing about the ATF’s anti-gun running run-running op. Docs that could reveal the Obama administration created F&F to generate support for a U.S. “assault weapons” ban. That the President knew about even before Mexican drug thugs used ATF-enabled firearms to murder U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

But don’t get too excited . . .

“This ruling is not predicated on a finding that the withholding was intended to cloak wrongdoing on the part of government officials or that the withholding itself was improper,” the judge wrote.

Perish the thought! It gets worse . . .

Jackson, an Obama appointee, left open the possibility in her ruling Tuesday …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns

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