AP Report:
A federal judge on Tuesday
rejected the Justice Department’s claim of executive privilege used to
withhold certain documents tied to the Fast and Furious “gun-walking”
scandal from release to a congressional committee.
House Republicans sued in
federal court in 2012 to obtain thousands of emails related to the botch
effort by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to
track guns across the Southwest border.
Revelations of the
operation created a political firestorm and set off a documents dispute
between former Attorney General Eric Holder and Congress that resulted
in Holder being held in contempt of Congress.
The Justice Department had
already produced tens of thousands of pages of documents, but Congress
continued to seek additional records that the department argued it was
entitled to withhold.
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