Katie wrote about a federal judge striking down President Obama’s executive privilege claim back in January. Now, the Obama White House has relented turning over thousands of pages related to the gun walking operation into Mexico spearheaded by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives that turned into a fiasco. One of the firearms in that operation ended up being used to murder Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in 2010.
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Via Politico:
Four years after asserting executive privilege to block Congress from obtaining documents relating to a controversial federal gun trafficking investigation, President Barack Obama relented Friday, turning over to lawmakers thousands of pages of records that led to unusual House votes holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt in 2012.
Pavlich has more on the matter here.
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