GorT has used one of his 14 OLED displays to stream the CSPAN coverage of the House Oversight Committee’s proceedings this morning into this afternoon.  Yes, there is plenty of partisan rhetoric being spewed by members of both sides but when boiled down the picture isn’t pretty.

1.  What is the Attorney General, Eric Holder, withholding from the investigation and why is he withholding it?
2.  What is an “evolving truth” and why should Congress and the American public wait for its evolution.  Is not the truth, the truth?
3.  If you think for a minute that Issa and the other GOP members are being political, then look at what the DoJ has released: many of the documents WIDERECEIVER program have been shared but very little of the Fast & Furious program.  Isn’t that odd?
4.  Why would a president invoke Executive Privilege – something he, himself, campaigned that should be used in extremely rare cases – to block certain documents and materials?  Does it not beg the question as to what the President is protecting?
5.  How can one characterize Eric Holder, the DoJ and now potentially the President of being cooperative if, after eight months of subpoena requests, the committee is left with less than 10% of the DoJ-assessed amount of information relevant to Fast & Furious and facing a potential block by presidential executive privilege.

Regardless of what happened, how it happened, who knew and why the did or didn’t act in certain courses of action, the standard meme of this administration is shining through: either they are incredibly incompetent (i.e. didn’t know, didn’t care enough to find out, etc.) or incredibly arrogant of the law.  In either case, doesn’t this speak volumes as to why they should NOT be in office?

I’m sure starting now and evolving over the next few days, we will get the spin of these proceedings.  I’m sure those on the left will try to dodge, dip, dive, duck and dodge their way away from these basic questions and hide behind the “it’s not reform” and “we do have documents”.  But the facts and the perception created by Holder and President Obama’s invocation of executive privilege, will hopefully shine through. 

This doesn’t paint a convincing picture that the AG’s investigation into classified material leaks will fare any better. Update: After posting this, I came across this post over at National Review Online – it raises a great point and uses one of my favorite historical references.

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