DACA: He may well have just been mistaken about whether or not he had that authority. Also, if the crime in particular was 'illegal entry/continued habitation without a permit/citizenship' yes he could have interceded, as it's a federal offense he may pardon. Given the vague language of the pardon power he may well have been able to give a rolling pardon too, or just restate it every day. Law enforcement would've been forced in that case to restart on enforcing the law in that case, including the legally required immigration court procedures, there's a number of restrictions on deportation after all. He may also note to the Justice Department he considers the DACA beneficiary matter of sufficiently low priority that he'd rather they focused on something more productive, although the JD could just ignore him on that.
FaFu: Yet apparently, Congress was not obstructed sufficiently to seek judicial intercession as to whether or not that was proper invocation of executive privilege, which Congress has done with Trump. Congress did not pursue the matter further, nor for that matter did they pursue the matter after a Republican president was placed in the White House and would have been perfectly positioned to release the necessary documents to Congress after the fact if the matter was indeed of interest to Congress and something that actually required review of the executive branch's actions even so late after the fact to see if that branch erred.
Had they done so and made their findings public we could discuss whether or not it was grounds for one degree of chastisement or another. Since they have not, it was clearly not, especially since after the dismissal of Holden he was not prosecuted, nor was Obama after his presidency prosecuted for obstruction of Congress. While, I'll note, they held both chambers of the legislative branch and the top office of executive branch under their control, so it'd have been trivial to arrange.
FISA abuse: I presume you are referring to the Steele dossier? IIRC the entire Trump administration intelligence community, even this late into his first term, are in agreement that the dossier was not falsified, and I do not recall the judiciary declaring that dossier insufficient grounds for any of the warrants that were granted due to it.
So feel free to dig further.
FaFu: Yet apparently, Congress was not obstructed sufficiently to seek judicial intercession as to whether or not that was proper invocation of executive privilege, which Congress has done with Trump. Congress did not pursue the matter further, nor for that matter did they pursue the matter after a Republican president was placed in the White House and would have been perfectly positioned to release the necessary documents to Congress after the fact if the matter was indeed of interest to Congress and something that actually required review of the executive branch's actions even so late after the fact to see if that branch erred.
Had they done so and made their findings public we could discuss whether or not it was grounds for one degree of chastisement or another. Since they have not, it was clearly not, especially since after the dismissal of Holden he was not prosecuted, nor was Obama after his presidency prosecuted for obstruction of Congress. While, I'll note, they held both chambers of the legislative branch and the top office of executive branch under their control, so it'd have been trivial to arrange.
FISA abuse: I presume you are referring to the Steele dossier? IIRC the entire Trump administration intelligence community, even this late into his first term, are in agreement that the dossier was not falsified, and I do not recall the judiciary declaring that dossier insufficient grounds for any of the warrants that were granted due to it.
So feel free to dig further.