BY: CJ Ciaramella Washington Free Beacon.
September 25, 2014 5:34 pm
September 25, 2014 5:34 pm
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| Holder in an AP picture |
A federal
judge ordered the
Justice Department Thursday to release a list of documents it is withholding
from the public related to Operation Fast and Furious within the next month.
Calling
the Obama administration’s request for further delays “unconvincing,” U.S.
District Court Judge John D. Bates told the Justice Department to release the
list of documents—called a “Vaughn index”—that the department is withholding by
Oct. 22. Bates said in his ruling. “The Court will therefore extend the Department’s Vaughn index submission deadline to October 22, 2014—and no further.”
. . . . . . The Justice Department has claimed executive privilege over the documents.
“The Obama administration failed to game the courts and now will have to account for its Fast and Furious lies,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in a statement. “Two federal courts have now rejected Eric Holder’s election-related ploy to keep this information from the American people. This is a battle that put Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, saw Nixonian assertions of executive privilege by Barack Obama, and a hapless Congress in the face of all this lawlessness.” (read the full article here).
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