Hmm… So is this life imitating art (as, in movies) or art imitating life?
I’m thinking this is more important than a “Quotes of the Day” post, no? In fact, so jaw-dropping is it, I had to read it twice to make sure I wasn’t misreading it. The site that posted it isn’t partisan either: It’s The Monkey Cage blog at the Washington Post, a “data journalism” hub a la Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight that prioritizes insights gleaned from number-crunching above left/right argumentation. In fact, the conclusion to the post isn’t that the study’s results necessarily cast a pall over the integrity of some U.S. elections and even the legitimacy of ObamaCare’s passage. It’s that, among the possible solutions, maybe we should think about allowing non-citizens to vote.
Investigation into the “Fast and Furious” gun-walking scandal continues to reveal disturbing developments. On Sunday, Representative Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee that is leading the investigation into the operation, told ABC News’ Jake Tapper that pertinent emails revealed that the agenda of the operation was to advocate for greater gun control, not as alleged to pursue criminal prosecutions of drug cartel members.
Judicial Watch obtained the index through “the freedom of information act”.
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is a federal freedom of information law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government.
As a citizen of the United States you can request government documents. Except of course, when executive privilege is claimed.
So, what exactly is “Executive Privilege” and under what circumstances is it to be used?
In the United States government, executive privilege is the power claimed by the President of the United States and other members of the executive branch to resist certain subpoenas and other interventions by the legislative and judicial branches of government to access information and personnel relating to the executive branch. The concept of executive privilege is not mentioned explicitly in the United States Constitution, but the Supreme Court of the United States ruled it to be an element of the separation of powers doctrine, and/or derived from the supremacy of executive branch in its own area of Constitutional activity.[1]
The Supreme Court confirmed the legitimacy of this doctrine in United States v. Nixon, but only to the extent of confirming that there is a qualified privilege. Once invoked, a presumption of privilege is established, requiring the Prosecutor to make a “sufficient showing” that the “Presidential material” is “essential to the justice of the case” (418 U.S. at 713-14). Chief Justice Burger further stated that executive privilege would most effectively apply when the oversight of the executive would impair that branch’s national security concerns.
So much for a “transparent” administration, lol. I take that back, actually they are pretty transparent. Seems to me that they ‘coverup”…. “at will” their war on your constitutional rights. And, which right – in this case – the second amendment. Your right to keep and bear arms.
The article goes on to explain what was in this “index” that was obtained through the freedom of information act
If you have nothing to hide…..you hide nothing, right?
My understanding is that Judicial Watch received the documents and that some portions are now under “Executive Privilege”. I would think that mean’s you will never know what was said between Eric Holder, his wife, and his mother concerning “Fast and Furious”. Unless, they are released by court order.
Health professionals are warning of a “humanitarian crisis” festering in Texas and Arizona as a result of unchecked border crossings of illegal-immigrant children into border communities.
Cramped conditions and the spread of difficult-to-treat diseases has doctors worried in the wake of a massive influx of children coming across the Mexican-U.S. border, many of them from Central and South America. Outbreaks of scabies, lice, dengue fever, tuberculosis and other diseases – many of them contagious – are already being documented among the children and in some border agents who work among them.
Maybe they can have an old fashioned pajama party at the White House.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/health-experts-diseases-at-border-becoming-crisis/
Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails of the lightening rod in the tea party targeting controversy will never be found, according to multiple sources.
“We’ve been informed that the hard drive has been thrown away,” Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said in a brief hallway interview.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/irs-lois-lerner-emails-108044.html
Everytown for Gun Safety is an activist organization against law-abiding citizens carrying firearms. It was founded by Michael Bloomberg and Shannon Watts…..
The article states that about 95+% of the places where things were happening were “gun-free zones”. Hmm… Now how do we get criminals to obey the law?
…..journalist Charles C. Johnson wanted a closer look at the cases that Everytown was portraying as “school shootings.” This is what he found…
Crimes against humanity by Babylon the Great.
I came across this site today…..and I wasn’t sure about posting this information?
