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Obama’s Twilight. (ABC) Boehner: GOP to Challenge Obama in Court.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 16:04
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Boehner: Republicans to Challenge Obama’s Executive Privilege in Civil Court

House Speaker John Boehern said today that Republicans are preparing to file a civil suit in an attempt to gain access to more information pertaining to the Justice Department’s botched Fast & Furious drug cartel gun tracking program.

The planned civil suit, which  comes on the heels of a letter sent by the Justice Department stating that the DOJ would not prosecute Attorney General Eric Holder following a House vote to hold him in criminal contempt of Congress.

“It’s not clear to me that the U.S. District Attorney will in fact, go down that path. That’s why we’re going to file, in District Court, a civil suit, over the issue of executive privilege,” Boehner said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

The Obama administration, in response to a request by Holder, asserted the right to executive privilege several weeks ago, in effect blocking Congressional access to documents pertaining the affair.

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/boehner-republicans-to-challenge-obamas-executive-privilege-in-civil-court/

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