News not "in the news" - why?
Aug 12, 2014 12:43:23 #
FTA
In other words, Attorney General Eric Holder and his political subordinates only gave the IG access to these records because they decided there was nothing in them that would prove embarrassing.
This is in blatant disregard of the Inspector General Act passed by Congress in 1978. As the IGs point out, Section 6 of the IG Act gives IGs access to to all records, reports, audits, reviews, documents, papers, recommendations, or other material available to the agency involved. Neither Eric Holder nor the head of any other federal agency has the right to withhold documents or other records relevant to an investigation from the IG for any reason unless another federal law expressly so states, let alone because that official thinks such records might reveal wrongdoing, ethical improprieties, or other embarrassing information.
As Prof. Ronald Rotunda, one of the leading ethics experts in the country, says in his treatise on Legal Ethics The Lawyers Deskbook on Professional Responsibility, while a government lawyer does have an attorney-client privilege with his client, that client is the government. Therefore, the government lawyer cannot assert the privilege to refuse to divulge information when it is the government itself that is seeking the information.
Thus, any privilege doctrine -- whether it be attorney-client, grand jury secrecy, or premised on some other privacy interest -- does not generally prevent lawyers within DOJ from providing confidential information to the lawyers working in the IGs office, who are also DOJ employees.
Gerald Walpin, the former IG of Americorp who was fired after he filed a report accusing a political supporter of President Obama of misusing an Americorp grant for personal use, says that he is not surprised that this administration employs any means to thwart IGs performance of their important job. He calls the privilege claim ludicrous, adding: IGs are as entitled to all documents in the possession of an agency as anyone else in the agency.
More at .........http://townhall.com/columnists/hansavonspakovsky/2014/08/12/the-administrations-latest-abuse-impeding-igs-and-hiding-the-t***h-from-the-american-people-n1877388/page/2
In other words, Attorney General Eric Holder and his political subordinates only gave the IG access to these records because they decided there was nothing in them that would prove embarrassing.
This is in blatant disregard of the Inspector General Act passed by Congress in 1978. As the IGs point out, Section 6 of the IG Act gives IGs access to to all records, reports, audits, reviews, documents, papers, recommendations, or other material available to the agency involved. Neither Eric Holder nor the head of any other federal agency has the right to withhold documents or other records relevant to an investigation from the IG for any reason unless another federal law expressly so states, let alone because that official thinks such records might reveal wrongdoing, ethical improprieties, or other embarrassing information.
As Prof. Ronald Rotunda, one of the leading ethics experts in the country, says in his treatise on Legal Ethics The Lawyers Deskbook on Professional Responsibility, while a government lawyer does have an attorney-client privilege with his client, that client is the government. Therefore, the government lawyer cannot assert the privilege to refuse to divulge information when it is the government itself that is seeking the information.
Thus, any privilege doctrine -- whether it be attorney-client, grand jury secrecy, or premised on some other privacy interest -- does not generally prevent lawyers within DOJ from providing confidential information to the lawyers working in the IGs office, who are also DOJ employees.
Gerald Walpin, the former IG of Americorp who was fired after he filed a report accusing a political supporter of President Obama of misusing an Americorp grant for personal use, says that he is not surprised that this administration employs any means to thwart IGs performance of their important job. He calls the privilege claim ludicrous, adding: IGs are as entitled to all documents in the possession of an agency as anyone else in the agency.
More at .........http://townhall.com/columnists/hansavonspakovsky/2014/08/12/the-administrations-latest-abuse-impeding-igs-and-hiding-the-t***h-from-the-american-people-n1877388/page/2
Aug 12, 2014 14:23:01 #
Holder just another lowlife s**t who thinks he can do what he wants just like his good buddy obummer. They both sound like they crawled out of the same bathhouse
Aug 13, 2014 06:30:17 #
why do you not have links to share on Facebook and Twitter and Google+ don't you realize that these entities are best way to spread the word
Aug 13, 2014 06:46:13 #
Byran wrote:
why do you not have links to share on Facebook and Twitter and Google+ don't you realize that these entities are best way to spread the word
Because I don't do Twitter or Facebook - too crowded and too flighty. You can share this link if you like.
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