The wheels of justice are slooooow for sure, but Obama and Eric Holder lost their appeal and Fast and Furious documents must be released. That is all of those that are not national security sensitive. This could be interesting for Eric Holder and several others. Remember too that the approval for the weapons in straw purchases came from the U.S. State Department. Ahem…Hillary? Janet?
It has also never been officially determined how many south of the border were actually killed by Fast and Furious weapons, perhaps releasing the documents will give us more facts.
Update: ABC News: 5 of 11 guns found at El Chapo’s Mexican hideout came from AZ. One was a .50 cal rifle confirmed to be a Fast & Furious gun.
Judge rejects Obama’s executive privilege claim over Fast and Furious records
Politico: A federal judge has rejected President Barack Obama’s assertion of executive privilege to deny Congress access to records pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, a gunrunning probe that allegedly allowed thousands of weapons to flow across the border into Mexico.
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 undercut Obama’s executive privilege claim.
The standoff over the records led to a House vote in 2012 holding then-Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the records. The House later initiated a lawsuit to try to force disclosure of the files.
Jackson left open the possibility that some of the records could be held back from Congress because they contain sensitive information on law enforcement techniques or implicate foreign policy concerns.
The administration could appeal the ruling.
