Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel June 19, 2012 (Assertion of Executive Privilege Over Deliberative Materials Generated in Response to Congressional Investigation Into Operation Fast and Furious)

Assertion of Executive Privilege Over Deliberative

Materials Generated in Response to Congressional

Investigation Into Operation Fast and Furious

Executive privilege may properly be asserted in response to a congressional subpoena

seeking internal Department of Justice documents generated in the course of the delib-

erative process concerning the Department’s response to congressional and related