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Issa, Grassley hammer White House for stonewalling on ‘Fast and Furious witness

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Dan W:

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/06/issa-grassley-hammer-white-house-for-stonewalling-on-fast-and-furious-witness/

The Obama administration is stonewalling two lawmakers’ requests to interview a former member of the National Security staff in connection with the failed Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking program, according to a March 28 letter obtained by The Daily Caller.

California Rep. Darrell Issa and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, both Republicans, requested a response by April 4 to their letter, which asks for an interview with Kevin O’Reilly, that former staffer. But the White House, according to the letter, is blocking access to him.

Through staff, both Grassley and Issa confirmed to TheDC on Thursday that April 4 came and went without any response from the Obama administration.

In their letter to White House Counsel Karen Ruemmler, Grassley and Issa cited a cryptic email exchange between O’Reilly and William Newell, the special agent in charge of the Phoenix office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives at the time Fast and Furious was implemented. The emails, their letter suggests, indicate that Newell was going around his chain of command to personally brief the White House about developments in the gun-walking program.

“You didn’t get this from me,” Newell wrote to O’Reilly in a Sept. 3, 2010 email about Fast and Furious, according to the letter from Issa and Grassley.

“Just don’t want ATF HQ to find out,” Newell wrote in am earlier email, “especially since this is what they should be doing (briefing you!).”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/06/issa-grassley-hammer-white-house-for-stonewalling-on-fast-and-furious-witness/#ixzz1rPSQ33iW

sparky:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-invokes-executive-privilege-holder-faces-contempt-vote-143710603.html

President Barack Obama invoked executive privilege on Wednesday for the first time since taking office to withhold certain Justice Department documents tied to the flawed "Operation Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling investigation from a House panel demanding them. Obama's 11th-hour decision, revealed in a letter from the Justice Department to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, did not derail the California Republican's plans to hold a vote declaring Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.
 
"I write now to inform you that the President has asserted executive privilege" over the documents, Deputy Attorney General James Cole told Issa in a letter released by the White House.
 
"Although we are deeply disappointed that the Committee appears intent on proceeding with a contempt vote, the Department remains willing to work with the Committee to reach a mutually satisfactory resolution of the outstanding issues," Cole wrote in the letter.

More B.S. at the link.

omaharj:
Our president made a campaign promise of an "open and transparent" administration in his last run for office. Things are becoming much clearer now. He and his administration are at best weasels,more likely conspirators in crime. RJ

RLMoeller:
most . . . .  transparent . . . .   ever

NE Bull:
The problem is his own party still can't see thru all the BS!  They are following like a bunch of sheep. Defending him and Holder the whole way, no matter how obvious the wrongdoing is.  Then of course, blaming the Rs for pulling politics.  The way i see it they are simply holding someone accountable for their actions. (the fact that it's an election year is just icing on the cake)
 

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