Just-revealed documents show Attorney General Eric Holder personally helped manage the Justice Department’s strategy over media and Congressional investigations into the "Fast and Furious" scandal — and bizarrely included emails to his wife and mother as privileged information in the affair.
Government watchdog Judicial Watch, which obtained the documents, says emails between Holder and his wife Sharon Malone – as well as his mother – are being withheld "under an extraordinary claim of executive privilege as well as a dubious claim of deliberative process privilege under the Freedom of Information Act."
"There are at least 20 emails, other communications, but principally emails between Holder and his spouse, Sharon Malone … a medical doctor here in [Washington,] D.C., and between Holder and his mother, who is now deceased but at the time a couple years back she was still alive," Chris Farrell, director of research and investigations at Judicial Watch, said Thursday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
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"So there are emails between he and his wife and his now dead mother and they're claiming executive privilege over those emails and for the life of me, I can't imagine what Dr. Malone or his mother has anything to do with 'Fast and Furious.'
"Somebody I know has opined that they think that there's maybe cover emails for people in the White House.... Their claim is executive privilege. They need to document or explain that. They just can't make a blanket statement."
According to Judicial Watch, the "Fast and Furious" debacle began as a federal gun-running operation in which the Obama administration allowed firearms to go to Mexican drug cartels in the hope they would end up at crime scenes and lead to advancing gun-control laws. But the weapons were implicated in the murders of hundreds of innocent people.
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