Well, yeah, I guess. But what took them so long? The Benghazi massacre was almost three years ago, and the Obama Regime has never invoked Executive Privilege up until now. Mainly, I suppose, because they didn't bother formalizing their blanket stonewalling. So again, why now?
Could it be that Trey Gowdy's House Select Committee is starting to get close to actual paydirt, or the path to it therein?:
The State Department has informed the House Select Committee on Benghazi that it is withholding “a small number” of documents from investigators on the basis of “important executive branch institutional interests.” The statement, made in a letter from Assistant Secretary of State Julia Frifield to committee chairman Representative Trey Gowdy, amounts to a de facto claim of executive privilege.
Frifield made the claim in a letter turning over 3,600 pages of Benghazi-related documents from three current and former administration officials: Susan Rice, Jake Sullivan, and Cheryl Mills. Rice, a former United Nations ambassador, is now national security adviser, while Sullivan and Mills are close aides to Hillary Clinton who worked at the Department when she was secretary of state. …
State has insisted on certain restrictions before turning over its documents, including those from Rice, Sullivan, and Mills. “Under the terms of this agreement, the documents are being provided without the majority of Department redactions that would normally be applied to protect national security, law enforcement, and diplomatic efforts of the United States, as well as the safety and privacy of the individuals named herein,” Frifield wrote to Gowdy. “In return, the Benghazi Committee has agreed that, in the event that it considers it integral to the satisfaction of the Benghazi Committee’s mandate to release any of these documents publicly, it will first give the State Department a reasonable opportunity of at least five days to review the documents proposed to be released and to discuss with the Benghazi Committee any sensitive information the Department believes should be redacted prior to the public release. The Benghazi Committee has agreed to consider such requests in good faith prior to making any such release.”
The "sticky wicket" the White House appears to have is with the Gowdy Committee's scope. They're not just probing the Benghazi consulate attack itself, or even the events directly leading up to it, but the entirety of Regime Libya policy going back to Operation Lead From Behind four years ago. So what does Barack Obama have to hide? Remember, executive privilege covers the president and any advisors directly involved with the subject matter of the related congressional investigation, which in this case are two Hillary Clinton flunkies and....Susan Rice, then U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., now National Security Advisor and the minion who was sent out to lie up a storm on the Sunday shows in the immediate Benghazi aftermath about the "anti-Muslim YouTube video" and whatnot. It would not cover Hillary Clinton, which runs counter to what House Select Committee Democrats keep insisting about its only purpose being to "embarrass" her.
Here's the summary of the executive privilege claim:
In so many words, "No, you can't have it, you'll have to make do with the lies we already told you." Which, again, is far from anything new in this justice-mocking coverup. But why raise its profile with an executive privilege claim unless Chairman Gowdy is getting close to something that The One doesn't want getting out? And what could that be that we don't already know or educatedly suspect?
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