Gunrunner: Darrell Issa turns up the heat on Barack Obama over Fast and Furious

 Despite the fact that at least three people on Barack Obama’s national security team WITHIN the White House knew about Operation Fast and Furious the president had managed to insulate himself from the deadly scandal, but that changed last week when Barack Obama declared executive privilege and sealed the documents Darrell Issa had been seeking for a year and a half. It has always seemed highly unlikely to me that three people who were on Barack Obama’s national security staff in the White House received some information on Fast and Furious and not once did they decide that this issue was important enough to inform the president on what was happening in regards to this deadly scandal.

  But now that Barack Obama has asserted executive privilege it opens up a whole new can of worms and one has to wonder what the president is hiding; what did he know and when did he know it? Darrell Issa also finds it a little suspicious that Barack Obama would seal documents on this case when he claims he hasn’t seen the documents and  has previously stated he didn’t know anything about the scandal until he heard about it on television, and he has sent a letter to the president calling him out.

“[Y]our privilege assertion means one of two things,” Issa wrote to the  president in a letter dated June 25. “Either you or your most senior advisors  were involved in managing Operation Fast & Furious and the fallout from it,  including the false February 4, 2011 letter provided by the attorney general to  the committee, or, you are asserting a presidential power that you know to be  unjustified solely for the purpose of further obstructing a congressional  investigation.”

    Eric Holder has been stonewalling this investigation for well over a year and he is doing it because he is protecting somebody–either himself or Barack Obama–and with Barack Obama’s willingness to throw his own grandmother and also his supposed spiritual mentor under the bus when it proved politically expedient, he was willing to protect his embattled attorney general when he could have distanced himself from the scandal by throwing him under the bus and one has to wonder who is protecting whom at this point.