It's hypocritical, says a Christian attorney, for the Obama White House to claim executive privilege when, in 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama condemned President George W. Bush for doing the same thing.

Next week the full House of Representatives could vote on a Contempt of Congress resolution for Attorney General Eric Holder's continued refusal to provide information to congressional oversight investigators, dealing with the ill-fated "Operation Fast and Furious" federal gun-smuggling sting.

Earlier this week, the Obama administration cited executive privilege to deny the congressional requests. But during an interview on CNN's Larry King Live in 2007, Obama blasted President Bush for doing the same thing...

Romney Press Secretary Andrea Saul attacked President Barack Obama's decision to invoke executive privilege on documents pertaining to the Fast and Furious scandal requested by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

“President Obama’s pledge to run the most open and transparent administration in history has turned out to be just another broken promise,” she said in a statement to BuzzFeed.

The scandal has largely been ignored by the media and the American public, but is entering the mainstream as the committee prepares to vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the documents.

The contempt vote centers around documents contempt from after February 4, 2011 — the fate the Department of Justice first tried to downplay the failed operation — to examine why it took so long to acknowledge the operation's flaws, the management practices at the department, and how it treated whistle-blowers...

Rep. Darrell Issa pressed ahead with a committee vote Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, despite an 11th-hour move by President Obama to exert executive privilege over the Fast and Furious documents at the heart of the dispute.

The announcement touched off a caustic debate on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that lasted into the afternoon, as Democrats accused Issa of prosecuting a "political witch hunt" and Republicans stepped up their criticism of Holder's "stonewalling" over the Fast and Furious probe. Even for Washington, the tone at the hearing was decidedly bitter and accusatory.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was first informed of the president's decision to exert executive privilege in a letter Wednesday morning, shortly before the contempt vote was scheduled...