The Patriot Post® · A Fast and Furious Document Dump

The Obama administration continues to obscure its hand in the Fast and Furious gun-walking scheme, even though the legal machine of Congress is grinding the truth from it. Thanks to an order issued by a judge in January, the Obama administration finally released thousands of documents Congress subpoenaed regarding the sting that the Obama administration wanted to use to justify more gun control. Obama prevented Congress from fully investigating by claiming the documents were protected by executive privilege. Releasing the documents on a Friday afternoon to obscure their significance demonstrates the Obama administration would rather keep this deadly scheme in the dark.

In a statement, House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said: “As we’ve long asserted, the Committee requires and is entitled to these documents. … The Committee has a duty to understand and shine light on what was happening inside [the Department of Justice] during the time of this irresponsible operation. Yet DOJ has obstructed our investigative work for years.” Indeed, former Attorney General Eric Holder went so far in his stonewalling as to stand in contempt of Congress.

The post-Holder DOJ continues to stonewall, as it withheld documents from this release. As a result, the Oversight Committee appealed the judge’s ruling so that it can force the DOJ to disclose all the documents over which the committee originally sued. Seeing how far the Obama Justice Department is going to keep the truth hidden, the saga of the Fast and Furious sting is far from over — for Congress or for the families terrorized by the cartels Obama armed.