Via Billy
A federal judge has rejected President Barack Obama's assertion of
executive privilege to deny Congress access to records pertaining to
Operation Fast and Furious, a gunrunning probe that allegedly allowed thousands of weapons to flow across the border into Mexico.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that the
Justice Department's public disclosures about its response to the
so-called "gun walking" controversy undercut Obama's executive privilege
claim.
"There is no need to balance the need against the impact that the
revelation of any record could have on candor in future executive
decision making, since any harm that might flow from the public
revelation of the deliberations at issue here has already been
self-inflicted," Jackson wrote. "The Department itself has already
publicly revealed the sum and substance of the very material it is now
seeking to withhold. Since any harm that would flow from the disclosures
sought here would be merely incremental, the records must be produced."
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