The "Fast and Furious" debacle has been going on for a year now.

In short, the ATF went after several gun stores in Arizona saying that they were allowing "straw" purchases of guns that they knew were going across the border. The gun stores blew the whistle saying that yes they knew the guns were being purchased illegally, but were allowing the purchases because they were cooperating with the ATF program to track guns across the boarder.

Regardless of what the ATF's motives for this were, the fact is that they didn't track any of the guns as they were supposed to. Thousands of guns went across the boarder, hundreds of Mexicans were killed and a couple of the guns turned up at the murder scene of Brian Terry (a US boarder agent).

Several ATF Supervisors of this program have been _promoted_ out of the state. A House Panel has been trying to get the truth out of Eric Holder for many months. They want to know what he knew and when he knew it. Holder has been caught in several lies already and a letter from Holder's office about the project has been proven to be false. The committee has subpoenaed many documents and what little they have gotten has been redacted so heavily it makes the process a joke.

Now Obama is claiming Executive Privilege on the documents. This happened within minutes of a Contempt of Congress vote. Many lawyers have chimed in with opinions saying that Obama can't do this unless he is directly involved and Executive Privilege is not to be used to hide criminal activity. This has ignited a firestorm right across party lines.

Congress clearly has the power to ask these questions.

Do you think Fast and Furious was illegal or just ill conceived?

Is Obama hiding criminal behavior or just protecting national interest?

Should Holder go to jail for Contempt of Congress? This is the first time a Chief Justice has ever been accused of contempt.