who covers national security for nbc news. so let s just say we take from that statement that the white house is not happy with the documents. do they have a choice though of whether or not to comply, ken? the reality is the white house has a lot of ways at their disposal to resist the requests. so when you see former white house officials on this list like former chief of staff or former spokesman sean spicer, you can expect the white house will assert executive privilege and resist document requests regarding those people and things that happened in the white house and they can be successful in that. there was a case in the obama administration, the fast and furious scandal, it took six years for a judge to rule on a house subpoena there. obama was out of office. it s actually hard to enforce a congressional subpoena. that said, many of the people on this list are private individuals, unconnected to the white house. congress is likely to be much more successful to get documents
for people that don t know, what is the fast and furious scandal? operation fast and furious a program essentially that federal government through justice department and atf from 2009 and 2010 they decided it would be good idea people who were trafficking guns to mexican cartels in méxico to buy thousands of firearms at gun shops in places like arizona, so what would happen we would have a purchaser who is someone who purchases a gun who has a clean record for someone who cannot purchase a drug, either illegal immigrant, felony on record, they ll come into the gun stores, they would purchase thousands of gun, atf told the gun dealerships that they were tracking firearms when all along they really weren t and the reasons that americans found out about this because border patrol agent brian perry was killed in december 2010 by someone who had these guns in their possession. so essentially, the atf sanctioned the sales of prior
the political and economic crisis in venezuela appears to be growing as huge protests continue over opposition leader juan guaido and nicolás maduro, u.s. is to support humanitarian aid, president trump said he would consider military intervention but did not reveal the circumstances that would warrant it. i m anita vogel, now back to fox nation in-depth. later this month fox nation will go to controversies, fast and furious scandal, here is a clip. when did you know? targeted by the cartels
this. this is the new standard? s.w.a.t. teams, 27 people, cnn cameras, tactical armored vehicles. somebody charged with lying? it only applies to those associated with president trump. take for example former obama eric holder. he has a long history of lying. including some surrounding a blatant coverup, oh, the fast and furious scandal. what about the obama officials who lied to congress about the plan to give iran access to u.s. banks as an incentive to sign off on that horrible nuclear deal. are their houses going to be surrounded? what about lying about the persecution of tea party groups? federal agents going to drag her out in cuffs. john brennan lied before congress on multiple occasions about hillary s bought and paid for dirty dossier. or james clapper about the nsa.
s.w.a.t. teams, 27 people, cnn cameras, tactical armored vehicles. somebody charged with lying? as it turns out, this only applies to those associated with president trump. take,h for example, former obama a.g. eric holder. where is his fbior raid? he has a long history of lying. including some surrounding a blatant coverup, oh, the fast and furious scandal. what about the obama officials who lied to congress about the plan to give iran access to u.sh banks as an incentive to sign off on that horrible nuclear deal? are their houses going to be surrounded? what aboutor the former irs official lying about the persecution of tea party groups? federal agents going to drag her out in cuffs? what about comrade john brennan? he lied before congress on multiple occasions about hillary s bought and paid for dirty dossier.