I believe President Obama is obligated to grant the request of Executive Privilege given the fact the documents are classified and AG Holder requested that level of protection for them. I don't see that President Obama has been so involved with the ATF he would have first hand knowledge of what is contained in those documents.
Someone has to be trusted in these matters.
The GOP has so politicized the issues of gun walking begun under the Bush Administration in an attempt to bring complete responsibility to the current administration as they have with everything else inherited from the previous administration, one can hardly call Issa responsible.
I would think if Chairman Issa wanted to sincerely investigate the concerns surrounding gun walking by the ATF he would have insisted it be held to some degree of scrutiny by the public, but, not to the extent their re-election bids and Executive Branch wishes were riding on it. That is over reaching by Chairman Issa and it could be said AG Holder is unsure how the classified documents would be used and to what extent they would become PR for the Republicans while compromising the security of the documents and information.
These gun walking programs by the ATF involve the knowledge of the activities of the cartels in Mexico. There are incredible numbers of people killed by these cartels. President Calderon has stated the killings are down considerably within Mexico this year, however, the numbers are still far too high.
The USA has enjoyed reasonable national security from these cartels and have not witnessed the degree of violence existing in Mexico. I believe these investigations may be important, but, to the extent they will become public political plays is dangerous. That is my opinion and it is not biased. I don't want my country compromised for political fodder. Issa could have handled this differently with a better outcome. It wasn't until this most recent meeting at the suggestion of AG Holder were there ANY requests for private meetings in regard to this information.
Issa has a long way to go to prove AG Holder holds any contempt.
The gun walking programs have been stopped from my understanding. They should have never, ever existed in the first place and to that reality and the death of our Border Agents both parties are responsible.
