Posts Tagged ‘Operation Fast & Furious’
DOJ official Gary Grindler to Resign over ‘Fast and Furious’
A ranking Justice Department official named by Republicans in their probes into the botched gunrunning scheme "Fast and Furious" will resign on Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced in a statement late Monday. Gary Grindler is Holder's chief of staff and has held a number of other positions, including as acting deputy attorney general. His office oversaw the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which led the program that allowed hundreds of illegally purchased weapons into the hands of Mexican cartels as a way of tracking their movements. But methods for tracking the weapons disintegrated, and missing weapon turned up at the site where a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed in 2010. Read More Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement: “Gary [...]
SECRET WIRETAPS ROCK DOJ – Issa Puts Details of Secret Wiretaps in Congressional Record
By Jonathan Strong In the midst of a fiery floor debate over contempt proceedings for Attorney General Eric Holder, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) quietly dropped a bombshell letter into the Congressional Record. The May 24 letter to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), ranking member on the panel, quotes from and describes in detail a secret wiretap application that has become a point of debate in the GOP’s “Fast and Furious” gun-walking probe. The wiretap applications are under court seal, and releasing such information to the public would ordinarily be illegal. But Issa appears to be protected by the Speech or Debate Clause in the Constitution, which offers immunity for Congressional speech, especially on a chamber’s [...]
Eric Holder states that Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious were NOT the Same
Despite the left leaning media stating that Operation Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious were exactly the same. Eric Holder states during Senate testimony that the two operation were quite different in scope and nature. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) presses Obama Attorney General Eric Holder on the Justice Department's deadly Operation Fast and Furious during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today. 11-8-11: Oversight Productionsferant in scope and nature #FastAndFurious on Twitter Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) presses Obama Attorney General Eric Holder on the Justice Department's deadly Operation Fast and Furious during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today. 11-8-11: Oversight Productions via Cornyn Grills Holder on Wide Receiver vs Fast and Furious - [...]
House panel votes Holder in contempt of Congress
A House panel voted Wednesday to place Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to comply with a subpoena, defying an assertion of executive privilege from President Obama. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Republican Chairman Darrell Issa (Calif.), approved a resolution along party lines to place Holder in contempt after battling him for months over access to internal agency documents about the gun-tracking operation known as "Fast and Furious." The vote came after Obama escalated the conflict by sending a letter to the committee claiming executive privilege over the documents the panel had sought. via House panel votes 23-17 to place Holder in contempt of Congress - TheHill.com.
Obama Claims Executive Privilege over Fast and Furious
President Obama on Wednesday invoked executive privilege to withhold from a Congressional oversight committee some documents and communications among his advisers regarding the failed gun enforcement operation known as “Fast and Furious,” in which weapons purchased in the United States were allowed to cross into Mexico. It was the first time since Mr. Obama took office that he has asserted the privilege, and it sharpened considerably the long-festering dispute between Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Representative Darrell Issa of California, the Republican chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The panel had been threatening to find Mr. Holder in contempt for refusing to hand over some documents. via Obama Claims Executive Privilege in Gun [...]
House to vote on Contempt of Congress against Holder
CBS News has learned the House Oversight Committee will vote next week on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. It's the fourth time in 30 years that Congress has launched a contempt action against an executive branch member. This time, the dispute stems from Holder failing to turn over documents subpoenaed on October 12, 2011 in the Fast and Furious "gunwalking" investigation. The Justice Department has maintained it has cooperated fully with the congressional investigation, turning over tens of thousands of documents and having Holder testify to Congress on the topic at least eight times. However, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says the Justice Department has refused to turn over tens of thousands of pages of documents. Those include [...]
