On Jul 2, 7:15*pm, "
wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:53:20 -0700, Oren wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 07:35:27 -0700, "Bob F"
wrote:

This whole thing is nothing but a political stunt by the Repubs. The evidence is
that the whole thing was cause by lax Arizona gun laws that prevented the feds
from being able to do anything about the gun sales. The Arizona prosecuters just
couldn't prosecute, because Arizona laws did not make the sales illegal..

http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.co...furious-truth/

Bull****. *You do know a federal agent was killed, right? *Would you
want to know what happened to your son or daughter in such a case?

Would you want to know who was responsible?

Here. *Chew on this and try to grasp what is said, not what your
political beliefs are.

...
Forget executive privilege, contempt of Congress, "fast and furious,"
how many documents the government has produced and who said what to
whom on which date.

The point that most miss is that it can only be "executive privilege" if the
covered documents are internal conversations with the President himself. *The
President is now either guilty of gun-running, with multiple murders
resulting, or obstruction of justice. *It now *has* to be one or the other.
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The above is not true. The documents potentially covered by executive
privilege are not limited to those directly involving the president.
They
can also be documents from within the executive branch where the
president believes releasing them is an unwarranted intrusion on the
rights and functioning of the executive branch. Obviously the
case for using executive privilege and
it being upheld by the courts is going to be strongest if it covers
documents or conversations involving the president himself.

And in the "fast and furious" case, I think it's going to be hard
for the president to argue that the need for the requested
documents to be kept from Congress outweighes the right
of Congress to fully investigate what happened here. Ultimately
I would expect that a court will order that most of them be
turned over.