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ATF leader’s email could be Fast and Furious smoking gun and Holder admitted Obama can’t shield it

Matthew Boyle

6/25/12

 

A single internal Department of Justice email could be the smoking-gun document in the Operation Fast and Furious scandal — if it turns out to contain what congressional investigators have said it does.

 

The document would establish that wiretap application documents show senior DOJ officials knew about and approved the gunwalking tactic in Fast and Furious. This is the opposite of what Attorney General Eric Holder and House oversight committee ranking Democratic member Rep. Elijah Cummings have claimed.

 

It appears that email would also prove senior DOJ officials, likely including Holder himself, knew in March 2011 that a Feb. 4, 2011 letter from the DOJ to Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley falsely denied guns were permitted to “walk” into Mexico. The DOJ allowed that false letter to stand for nine more months, only withdrawing it in December 2011.

 

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I just read this.... is this correct and if so ....Congress???

 

Obama can only use executive privilege to protect HIS OWN involvement in Fast&Furious Therefore he IS involved

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Predictable: Civil Rights "Leaders" Pull Race Card to Defend Eric Holder

Katie Pavlich

6/26/12

 

When you have no facts to base an argument on, pull the race card. That's the worn out tactic of civil rights "leaders" like Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP President Ben Jealous who are fully defending Attorney General Eric Holder in his handling of the Fast and Furious scandal while leaving the family of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry smothered in the dirt. Last week Nancy Pelosi made the ridiculous argument that the only reason Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa is investigating Operation Fast and Furious and proceeding with a full House contempt vote on Thursday is because Republicans want to suppress the vote of minorities and Holder is the person who "prevents that from happening."

 

“They’re going after Eric Holder because he is supporting measures to overturn these voter-suppression initiatives in the states,” she told reporters.

 

Now, Sharpton, Jealous and others are also running with that argument.

 

First of all, two can play the race game. If Holder and his race card cronies like Sharpton want to play the race game, let's play. Let's talk about the 300+ dead Mexicans as a result of the Holder Justice Department's Operation Fast and Furious. Even Holder is willing to admit more innocents will be murdered as a result of this program. Second, the Attorney General can be replaced, Holder isn't the only guy who can "prevent" what Nancy Pelosi sees as the suppression of the minority vote. In fact, you could argue Obama is keeping Holder around to sue states for Voter I.D. laws while turning a blind eye to voter fraud. Third, this isn't about voting, this is about getting to the bottom a bloody scandal that President Obama, Eric Holder, Nancy Pelosi and now Rev. Al and others are more than happy to cover up. Liberals are trying desperately, as they always do, to turn Holder into the victim here, when he isn't a victim at all, he's the problem. They're also trying desperately to throw out a distraction like voting that has nothing to do with the Fast and Furious scandal in order to take as much attention away from the facts as possible. Fact: Holder received multiple Fast and Furious memos dated July and August 2010, yet says he only knew about the program for a "few weeks" in May 2011. Fact: Holder has changed his testimony over and over again under oath. Fact: Holder refused to turn over more documents related to the program. Fact: Documents Holder has turned over are either partially or completely redacted. Fact: Holder's number two man at DOJ, Lanny Breuer, approved six Fast and Furious wiretap applications, yet Holder still claims his senior officials knew nothing of the program while it was active. Fact: Holder claims he ended Fast and Furious. The program ended in December 2010, yet he says he didn't know about the program until May 2011. Fact: Eric Holder, who is black, is one of the most powerful men in the world.

 

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Don't be nosy about Fast and Furious

 

Ummm, okay...

 

And they wonder why their ratings are tanking...

 

LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named journalist of the year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and is a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist for commentary. He is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com. Follow him on Twitter: @locs_n_laughs

 

 

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Times have changed. Yet, not everything is our business. And in the political arena, there are things that should be and need to be kept quiet.

 

I know that's hard to digest in a society where pregnancies and marriages of D-list celebrities make the cover of People magazine, but there comes a point where the public's right to know needs to take a back seat to matters like national security and diplomacy.

 

Heads should roll because of the Fast and Furious debacle. We don't need every detail of that operation to be made public in order for that to happen.

 

 

My head hurts...real bad!

 

Times have changed. Yet, not everything is our business. And in the political arena, there are things that should be and need to be kept quiet.

 

I know that's hard to digest in a society where pregnancies and marriages of D-list celebrities make the cover of People magazine, but there comes a point where the public's right to know needs to take a back seat to matters like national security and diplomacy.

 

Heads should roll because of the Iraq war debacle. We don't need every detail of that operation to be made public in order for that to happen.

 

Wonder if he were wrote anything remotely like that? Somehow I doubt it.

 

 

 

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House to authorize civil court action in coming Holder contempt vote

Pete Kasperowicz

06/27/12

 

When the House votes Thursday on a resolution finding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, it will also consider a related resolution that gives the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee the authority to seek civil court judgments enforcing subpoenas against Holder.

 

The subpoena resolution, H.Res. 706, gives that committee the authority to "initiate or intervene in judicial proceedings in any federal court of competent jurisdiction" to seek judgments affirming that Holder must "comply with any subpoena" related to the House Republicans' investigation of the Fast and Furious gun-walking operation.

 

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In the meantime, the contempt resolution against Holder already makes a criminal referral in the case to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. It instructs the House to certify the committee's report documenting Holder's refusal to hand over documents to the U.S. Attorney for D.C., "to the end that Mr. Holder be proceeded against in the manner and form provided by law."

 

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I take this to mean The House can bypass the DOJ in enforcing their subpoena.

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Tomorrow’s Fast and Furious A/G Holder contempt vote schedule:

 

by Greta Van Susteren

 

http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/2012/06/27/tomorrows-fast-and-furious-ag-holder-contempt-vote-schedule/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnewsinsider%2Fgretawire+%28Gretawire%29

 

Rather than post it here, just go to the site. Going to be a loooooong process.

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Tomorrow’s Fast and Furious A/G Holder contempt vote schedule:

 

by Greta Van Susteren

 

http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/2012/06/27/tomorrows-fast-and-furious-ag-holder-contempt-vote-schedule/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnewsinsider%2Fgretawire+%28Gretawire%29

 

Rather than post it here, just go to the site. Going to be a loooooong process.

 

Thank you.

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Dingle wants to send this back to the Oversight Committee to have a "Real" investigation...what ever that is.

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Dingle wants to send this back to the Oversight Committee to have a "Real" investigation...what ever that is.

Is that Dingle of the Berry clan?

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Dingle wants to send this back to the Oversight Committee to have a "Real" investigation...what ever that is.

Is that Dingle of the Berry clan?

 

John Dingell...aka Mr. Bi-Partisan .

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House holds Holder in contempt over ‘Fast and Furious’ documents

6/28/12

 

The House on Thursday cited Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. for contempt of Congress in a historic vote weighted with political significance, though it does little to break the stalemate over his decision to withhold documents over the Justice Department’s actions in a botched gun-walking operation.

 

The 256-67 vote amounted to a political spanking for Mr. Holder and President Obama, and 17 Democrats joined with Republicans in demanding the documents be released. Most Democrats, however, walked out in protest of the vote.

 

It marks the first time an attorney general has been held in contempt by a chamber.

 

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There was one 'Present' vote. Didn't realize the President could vote in House.

 

Hey When you are the 4th greatest president, there's nothing you can't do!

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