A funny thing happened on the way to Barry "Almighty‘s" deciding to grant Attorney General Eric Holder executive privilege regarding Fast and Furious documents. Because, apparently his decision to do so now, seems to be a bit at odds with his previous stance regarding the Bush administration’s use of the power. You see, when Barry appeared on Larry King’s show, on the Communist News Network (CNN), back in 2007, he essentially accused the Bush administration of “hiding behind executive privilege” after King asked him for his opinion on its utilization. “I think we will determine over the next several weeks how this administration (President Bush) responds to the very appropriate call by Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, to have these individuals come in and testify," is what Barry said in 2007. My, how things seem to have changed in just 5 short years.
And in very typical Barry fashion he went on to add, “There‘s been a tendency on the part of this administration to try to hide behind executive privilege every time there’s something a little shaky that’s taken place. I think the administration would be best served by coming clean on this. There doesn’t seem to be any national security issues involved with the U.S. Attorney… There doesn’t same to be any justification for not offering up some clear, plausible rationale for why these U.S. Attorneys were targeted when by all assessments they were doing an outstanding job. He claimed, “I think the American people deserve to know what was going on.” Basically I would tend to agree with that statement. But why is what Barry saw as then being needed with Bush, for the same reason, why is it not needed now? What, we're just supposed to be able to trust him where we couldn't Bush?
And it taking things just a bit further, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on Wednesday pointed out that Barry has claimed on any number of occasions to be an strong advocate of transparency and against invoking executive privilege without a good reason. It was during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing Wednesday that Rep. Chaffetz quoted a number or previous instance where Barry "Almighty" had stated his position regarding his willingness to be totally transparent. First came in 2008 when Barry said, “Let me say as simply as I can, transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency. I will also hold myself as president to a new standard of openness…But the mere fact that you have the legal power to keep something secret does not mean you should always use it." Well that's interesting to hear, coming from Barry.
Other examples of Barry's obvious hypocrisy include a 2009 memo, “The government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure. because errors or failures might be revealed or because of speculative or abstract fears.” And it was in 2011 that we heard Barry say about Fast and Furious, “There may be a situation here in which a serious mistake was made and if that’s the case we will find out and hold someone accountable.” So once again we are made witness to the pure arrogance of this guy. We see a man, in the person of Barry "Almighty", who apparently is of the opinion that the same rules he would have applied to others, simply do not apply to him. But should we really be surprised by any of this? No, not really, after all, Barry has seen himself as being wel above the law since he first entered into public office. He's just so special.
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