Rick Perry: Obama Administration Looks 'Nixonian' By Withholding Fast & Furious Documents

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During an appearance on CBS's Face the Nation earlier today, Texas governor Rick Perry weighed in on the continuing investigation into the Fast & Furious scandal, telling Bob Schieffer that the cover-up from the Obama administration seems 'Nixonian' in nature, and wondered what information is in the documents so damaging to the administration that they would need to withhold them from the House Oversight Committee.

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After touching on his tough primary fight with Mitt Romney, Perry made it clear he fully supports the GOP nominee over Obama. Schieffer reminded Perry of his brief scuffle with Romney over immigration during one of their debates, specifically the moment when he rebutted Romney on helping young illegal immigrants pay for their tuition by saying 'you don't have a heart' if you oppose that. Perry quickly shifted to Obama's recently-announced executive order on immigration, saying that he quite blatantly bypassed Congress and attempted to score political points in an election year.

In talking about immigration and securing the borders, Perry brought up the Fast & Furious scandal and couldn't help but remark on the level of obfuscation going on in the Obama administration.

'This is almost Nixonian, if not absolutely Nixonian, in the cover-up that's going on with this Fast & Furious, don't you agree with that?'

To that, Schieffer asked Perry what he thought the next step should be in the investigation. Perry suggested that this case might even be worse than Watergate, because as opposed to a 'second-rate burglarly,' Obama is asserting executive privilege in a case where a U.S. border patrol agent died as a result of a government operation. He wondered what could be so important that the Obama administration would need to withhold so many documents.

Watch the video below, courtesy of CBS:

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• Man of man ' Rubepulican gunther efforts to get rid of the stench of Watergate just never end.

• Not just Brian Terry, but ICE agent Jaime Zapata and hundreds of Mexican citizens have been murdered with these untracked weapons. 
   Tricky Barry fouls up almost everything he touches. 

  If he doesn't screw it up at first, he circles around and does it later.

   For example, getting bin Laden, then immediately blabbing about it, destroying any info gained in the raid.
  Then, outing SEAL Team Six, endangering their families.
   Then, giving classified info to a movie company.
  Then, trying to use it in his campaign, saying Romney wouldn't have made the call.

  Now, saying ' I got Osama' is a punchline.

• 'Nixonian'

  Perry managed a polysyllabic word ' good for him. 

• Seems more 'Bushonian' to me.

• I thought his 15 minutes of fame expired at the end of the first debate. My bad.

• Such pretty hair.

• Rick Perry is the lowest IQ Governor in the country. People who vote for him are the low IQ Conservatives/Tea Baggers/Republicans.

  What he says and thinks is not important.

• F&Furious is in the mainstrea arena now ' that's all people wanted. If there's nothing there, show it and let's move on to more important things.

  Like steroid use in baseball.

• 'Now, saying ' I got Osama' is a punchline.'

  Only for you birther nuts.

• Isn't it true that people kill people, not guns kill people?

  Where are all you NRA hacks when someone is blaming a gun for the death of a person? EH?

  You must agree that the guns had nothing to do with the death of anyone; it was always the person responsible. 

  NRA where are you!! 

  No but really, the war in Iraq comes to mind. GW sent 4500 of our soldiers to die in Iraq and to this day we still don't know why. Was it oil? Was it revenge? Did America get to see the private deliberations of public officials then? NOPE!

  Either way, gun running happened under Bush's term as well. The fact that a border agent died is tragic but as Republicans like to say all the time, 'people kill people, not guns'. So do Republicans now agree that it is guns that kill people?

  The use of executive privilege is not something we like to see, but we see it all the time and it is the only way the executive branch can protect its internal conversations. Executive Privilege is like attorney/ client privilege. 

  This is a textbook witch-hunt, but it's all the Republicans have against Obama so we are going to hear allot about it in the coming weeks.

  Issa's committee is investigating 'Fast and Furious,' that botched gun smuggling operation that could have led to the death of a U.S. border patrol agent.

  'could have led'

  Witch-hunt!

  The point is you all of a sudden Republicans want to change the playing field for president Obama'he has invoked executive privilege 1 time and it still puts him on pace to have the most transparent administration in recent history'.officer terry's death is a tragedy but remember he applied for the job a knew the consequences'..issa is playing politics plane and simple'.and Republicans are desperate.

• Yes I'll trust Rick Perry knows what's going on lol.

•  and Republicans are desperate.

  They always are, and they're ALWAYS lying.

• 'I got Osama' is a punchline?
  The low IQ Conservatives/Tea Baggers/Republicans are not known for appreciating competence.