how many pages of documents has bolton or any white house upper echelon person provided to any investigations? holder spent years providing documents to the repubs constant nothingburger investigations and finally had enough, just calling them nuisance suits because repubs are such little bitches in general.
The Department of Justice has turned over nearly 65,000 pages of documents on the “Fast and Furious” gunrunning scandal to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the panel announced Tuesday.
The documents, long desired by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), include material the Obama administration previously argued was unreleasable as it was covered by executive privilege. But earlier this year, a federal judge ultimately compelled the DOJ to send the documents to Congress.
Issa said obtaining the documents was a “victory for the legislative branch” but insisted he would continue his campaign against the DOJ and Attorney General Eric Holder as the panel is still missing material Congress has requested.
Issa also said he was “deeply concerned” that the DOJ overly redacted some of the documents included in the release. In a cover letter accompanying the documents — made public by the Oversight Committee — the DOJ said tight time constraintsto provide the documents may have “resulted in more redactions than the department ultimately will want to press in this case.”
The tens thousands of pages of documents released to the House late Monday include an email exchange between Holder and his wife as well as an exchange between Holder and White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Jarrett’s email discussion with Holder appears to have been a morale-boosting effort at a time when press reports suggested he’d received updates on Operation Fast and Furious notwithstanding his statements to the contrary.
“I’m sorry,” Jarrett wrote to Holder on October 4, 2011.
“Time to go to the mattresses. Ready for the fight. Will send some of our stuff. All I have are the facts,” Holder replied, signing the message simply, “E.”
“Facts always work,” Jarrett responded.
Holder’s emails on the subject also include some frank criticism of Issa.
“Issa and his idiot cronies never gave a damn about this when all that was happening was that thousands of Mexicans were being killed with guns from our country. All they want to do- in reality- is cripple ATF and suck up to the gun lobby,” Holder wrote to three of his top aides on April 15, 2011. “Politics at its worst- maybe the media will get it.”
A person familiar with the exchanges between Holder and his wife, Sharon Malone, said that one involves Malone forwarding a news article related to the case. In the email thread, the couple went on to discuss family matters not related to the Fast and Furious investigation.
In another, former DOJ official Robert Raben shared public relations strategy with Malone, who forwarded the advice to Holder, the source said.
A DOJ spokesman said officials hope the disclosure can help settle the litigation over Fast-and-Furious-related records.
https://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/fast-furious-documents-released-112498
so, 65,000 pages of documents versus- none. and you are crying?