President Obama asserted executive yesterday on certain Justice Department documents related to the "Fast and Furious" political witchunt by Rep. Darrell Issa and House Republicans. If the witch hunt itself isn’t absurd enough now the Fox News and GOP talking point of the day is the President himself must be directly involved in what the GOP believes was a gun running conspiracy to have people killed so that Americans will rise up against gun ownership and the Second Amendment.
Apparently Darrell Issa and the House Republicans have nothing better to do than put together this charade show trial of wasting millions of dollars in taxpayer money to make repeated attempts at embarrassing the president and contributing to his electoral defeat. The Republican Party has never sunk so low as in this moment, abusing their privilege and power and seeking to destroy Barack Obama through almost totalitarian means.
The Attorney General has already handed over roughly 7,000 documents and the additional documents Issa is demanding to review are non-subpoenable by Congress as they relate to open investigations. The documents that Issa is demanding are protected by law. So the lawmaker who is contemptuous of laws himself holds the Attorney General in contempt for upholding the law. This is a quote from one of the first documents already handed over:
"The Department of Justice says it already has handed over more than 7,000 pages of records to House investigators, and that the remaining material Issa wants could jeopardize criminal prosecutions. One of those criminal prosecutions is the investigation into the death of Agent Brian Terry." The President has to invoke executive privilege because Issa is abusing his chairmanship in the name of good theater. His demand to see documents relating to open investigations could actually get more people killed. But so what? "It'll be good theater" to hear Darrell Issa tell it.
So while we have millions of people still out of work and our infrastructure continues to fall down around us, we have a GOP who would rather spend our tax dollars on this political theatre. From day one the Republicans declared that they would do whatever it took to defeat this President. Hopefully, this political game should be enough to cost Issa and the rest of the House Republicans their jobs.
Apparently Darrell Issa and the House Republicans have nothing better to do than put together this charade show trial of wasting millions of dollars in taxpayer money to make repeated attempts at embarrassing the president and contributing to his electoral defeat. The Republican Party has never sunk so low as in this moment, abusing their privilege and power and seeking to destroy Barack Obama through almost totalitarian means.
So while we have millions of people still out of work and our infrastructure continues to fall down around us, we have a GOP who would rather spend our tax dollars on this political theatre. From day one the Republicans declared that they would do whatever it took to defeat this President. Hopefully, this political game should be enough to cost Issa and the rest of the House Republicans their jobs.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).
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Bloomberg
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