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AG Jeff Sessions said:
Today, the Department of Justice entered into a conditional settlement agreement with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and will begin to produce additional documents related to Operation Fast and Furious. The conditional settlement agreement, filed in federal court in Washington D.C., would end six years of litigation arising out of the previous administration’s refusal to produce documents requested by the Committee.
Readers will recall that former Attorney General Eric Holder famously stonewalled Congress on these documents. Barack Obama finally claimed that executive privilege exempted these records from the committee on behalf of Holder, which resulted in a contempt charge against Holder that both ignored. That was a breathtakingly arrogant position; executive privilege usually only applies to the president, who supposedly knew nothing about Operation Fast and Furious. It also doesn’t apply at all on documents dealing with potentially criminal behavior. Other officials had at the very least misled Congress during testimony, and the Oversight Committee had a legitimate claim on those records to pursue those allegations as well as other underlying crimes and malfeasance in the scandal.
