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Originally Posted by CJ7
then to shut up the simpletons, all Obie needs to do is use EP ..
scratch that, they'd bitch like teenage girls because he used EP
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Ceej, you REALLY haven't been paying attention.
They're trying to claim EP, and it isn't working.
There are two kinds of executive privilege. To invoke the strong one, Obama has to admit that he knew all about Fast and Furious, that he was in it up to his neck. He can't do that, for obvious reasons.
The second kind, the weak one, is what they are trying to use. The problem with the weak one is that it evaporates the moment any kind of showing is made that there MIGHT be wrongdoing involved. In Fast and Furious, it is already known, beyond reasonable doubt, that there WAS wrongdoing involved.
Holder is what used to be known as screwed, blued, and tattooed. He is in both civil and criminal contempt of Congress. Despite the referral, the US Attorney has refused to file the criminal case. I read earlier today that there are still three civil cases pending against him for it, and Boehner could still find his balls and order the House Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest Holder and throw him in the DC jail. (It is a valid reply to a writ of habeas corpus that the subject is being held at the request of the Speaker of the House.) His only hope is that this somehow blows over, and right now that doesn't look likely.