UNITED States (U.S.) President Barack Obama’s executive privilege has been challenged by Darrell Issa, a key Republican lawmaker, over documents tied to a botched gun-running plan ahead of tomorrow’s House vote on whether to hold the country’s government’s top attorney in contempt of Congress.
Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee which last week voted along strict party lines to censure Attorney General Eric Holder, wrote to the president urging him to retract his decision to withhold key documents, or risk the appearance of a cover-up.
A former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser in U.S., Condoleezza Rice, at a fundraiser on Monday for ShePAC, a new platform that supports conservative female candidates, lamented what she termed as changing attitudes about opportunities for success in the United States and – without calling him by name – criticised President Barack Obama for announcing that his administration would selectively enforce immigration laws.
Rice said: “This is a truly consequential election. This is perhaps a turning point for the country. I’m very often asked to speak about the foreign policy aspects and there are some key important foreign policy issues before us.
“There are many foreign policy issues on the agenda, but we are not going to address any of those international challenges unless we get it right at home. And it’s not right at home right now, and the American people know it.”
Rice, whose name is increasingly coming up as a possible candidate to become Romney’s running mate, ended her talk with a shout-out to the former Massachusetts governor.
“America has a way of making the impossible seem inevitable in retrospect, and we’re going to do it again,” she said.
“We’re going to strengthen ourselves, our democracy at home, we’re going to strengthen our economy, we’re going to do it with great leadership like the people in this room and like Governor Mitt Romney, who will be a terrific president.”
Meanwhile, Issa, wrote in his letter dated Monday and made public yesterday, said: “Your privilege assertion means one of two things
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