Foot Shooting for Dummies

Operation Fast and Furious, where BATF allowed better than 1000 guns to walk into Mexico was just a medium duty administration scandal until today.  Congress  subpoenaed  100,000 documents from Dept of Justice and DOJ has been stalling on delivering them.
   Today Obama invoked "Executive Privilege"  to keep those documents secret.  Executive Privilege is a way of keeping information given to the president secret on the theory that the president needs to hear unvarnished truth from his advisers.  If every thing said to the president will appear in the public press, a whole bunch of stuff will never be discussed because it will look bad in the papers.
   So far so good.  But by invoking executive privilege, Obama is saying that he knew about Fast and Furious, something that he has been denying.  Plus, the last president to invoke Executive Privilege in a big way was Richard Nixon in Watergate.  We oldsters remember Watergate, and we remember that Nixon's use of executive privilege was fraudulent.  As soon as Obama tries it, we think Obama is fraudulent too.
   The documents in question are probably embarrassing, they probably will tell which DOJ chucklehead started Fast and Furious, and why.  But even if the disputed documents incriminated Eric Holder, AND showed that Fast and Furious was an attempt to discredit the 2nd Amendment,  Obama could have just thrown Holder under the bus along with Rev. Wright and pressed on.
   Now Obama has told us all that he was in on it, from the beginning.  Not smart.