https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2012/06/22/a-note-on-fast-and-furious-executive-privilege-and-the-end-of-the-obama-administration/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 09:15:48 -0400<![CDATA[Calm down. The end hasn’t come yet, not quite. But you can feel it coming, a dull, oppressive presence like the heaviness of the air before a storm, or the quickly widening fissures that consumed the House of Usher. Future historians, looking back on the wreck of the Obama administration, will mark with wonder the president’s darkly frivolous assertion of executive privilege this week. It was then, they will say, that his administration, that the president himself, officially entered the Period of Panic and Flailing.]]>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:51:01 -0400<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2012/06/22/a-note-on-fast-and-furious-executive-privilege-and-the-end-of-the-obama-administration-n116883