Obama Assertion of Privilege Sparks Questions on What He Knew About Gun-Running Scandal
By Fred Lucas – Cybercast News Service If you look at how executive privilege has been historically interpreted it’s designed to protect the inner workings of the White House “One of the big issues that we’ve been dealing with is who knew about Fast and Furious? When did they know about it? And how high up did it go? And the attorney general has asserted on numerous occasions that he didn’t know about this.” WASHINGTON, DC (CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama dived head first into the Operation Fast and Furious scandal Wednesday after spending more than a year keeping his distance from the botched gun sting that allowed nearly 2,000 weapons to flow into Mexico. Obama said he had no knowledge of the scandal before hearing about it in the news. Members of Congress are now questioning that given his claim of executive privilege to withhold certain documents from Congress. Oversight committee member Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) said executive privilege is intended for communications at the highest levels of the White House. Thus, he said this either means Obama knew about this before saying so, or that he is making an unprecedented claim to executive privilege. “If you look at how executive privilege has been historically interpreted it’s designed to protect the inner workings of the White House, the president talking to his advisors,” Farenthold told CNSNews.com. “It’s usually...
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