Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch, 202-646-5188

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2014 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch announced today that it received from the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) on November 18, 2014, a large production of documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious. The documents were forced out of the Obama administration through a June 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and subsequent September 2012 FOIA lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice (No. 1:12-cv-01510)).

A total of 10,112 documents, comprised of approximately 42,000 pages, were disclosed to Judicial Watch in the new production. The documents are being posted and most are now available on the Judicial Watch Internet site at www.judicialwatch.org/fast-furious-documents-released.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement:

Judicial Watch's tenacious lawsuit has led to the first public disclosure of Fast and Furious documents at the heart of the historic contempt citation against Attorney General Eric Holder. These documents, many of which are heavily blacked out, withheld for over two years by President Obama, are a road map the Obama administration's Fast and Furious cover-up and deadly lies.

Our supporters should be proud that their contributions helped our team of lawyers and investigators break through the Obama/Holder stonewall on Fast and Furious. Our disclosures exposed as fraud Obama's assertions of executive privilege and led to Holder's surprise resignation. And it was because of our lawsuit that Congress finally obtained information it had sought for years on Fast and Furious.

We are posting these documents for the public to review and hope that crowd-sourcing our investigation will lead to more accountability for the Fast and Furious outrage. The documents are explosive.