Justice Dept. List of Withheld Fast & Furious Docs is 1,323 Pages Long.

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Most transparent administration . . . evaaaah!

Justice Dept. List of Withheld Fast & Furious Docs is 1,323 Pages Long.

For the first time, the Department of Justice has provided a detailed description of 15,662 Fast and Furious-related documents it is withholding from Congress, the public and the press under executive privilege exerted by President Obama.

The description comes in the form of a so-called Vaughn index ordered by a federal court in a lawsuit filed against the Justice Department by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. The Justice Department waited to provide the index, due yesterday, until 8:34 p.m.

The number of withheld documents is so extensive, that the list describing them is 1,323 pages long.

Read the Justice Dept. Vaughn index of withheld documents

The Vaughn index identifies each record held and explains why the Justice Department believes the material should be withheld from public disclosure.

According to Judicial Watch,

“The document details Attorney General Holder’s personal involvement in managing the Justice Department’s strategy on media and Congressional investigations into the Fast and Furious scandal. Notably, the document discloses that emails between Attorney General Holder and his wife Sharon Malone – and his mother – are being withheld under claims of executive privilege and the deliberative process privilege.”

That includes approximately 30 emails between Attorney General Eric Holder and his wife.

“There is no precedent for President Obama’s Nixonian assertion of executive privilege over these ordinary government agency records,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a written statement. “Americans will be astonished that Obama asserted executive privilege over Eric Holder’s emails to his wife about Fast and Furious.”

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I guess we won't be hearing from you for a while then?

Edited October 24, 2014 by Hail Ming!