Rep. Farenthold to Newsmax: Fast and Furious Documents ‘Incriminating,’ ‘Explosive’

Todd Beamon and John Bachman
NewsMax.com
August 15, 2012
The documents on Operation Fast and Furious that House Republicans sued U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to obtain must contain “something either incriminating or very politically explosive,” Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold tells Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview.

“There is something either incriminating or very politically explosive in there or they wouldn’t be fighting so hard to hold them back – and they wouldn’t have called on President Obama to exert executive privilege at the last second,” the GOP congressman tells Newsmax. “And, of course, we all know executive privilege only applies to deliberations of the president and his closest advisers.

Newsmax Video at the page link

“And the president has said publicly that he didn’t know about Fast and Furious as it was going on,” Farenthold added. “So it’s pretty clear that he’s either misleading us about what he knew or executive privilege doesn’t apply.”

Read full article

Similar/Related Articles



  1. Obama Exercises Executive Privilege over Fast and Furious Documents
  2. Holder Claims Emails Using Words ‘Fast and Furious’ Don’t Refer to Operation Fast and Furious
  3. Romney: Why won’t Obama release Fast and Furious documents?
  4. Obama admin. let grenades walk in Fast and Furious, documents show
  5. Obama Asserts Executive Privilege to Hide Involvement in Fast and Furious
  6. Obama Asserts Executive Privilege to Hide Involvement in Fast and Furious
  7. Congressman: Obama admin may be accessory to murder with Fast and Furious
  8. Was CIA behind Operation Fast and Furious?
  9. AG Holder and House GOP May Compromise on “Fast and Furious”
  10. Obama Hides Behind ‘Executive Privilege’ In Damage Control Over Fast and Furious
  11. DEA acknowledges supporting role in Operation Fast and Furious
  12. GOP sues to force Obama compliance on Fast and Furious