When House Republicans, led by North County Rep. Darrell Issa, voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, it was the first time in history that a U.S. attorney general has been sanctioned this way in Congress.
Issa led an 18-month investigation into Holder’s role in the Justice Department's botched Fast and Furious operation. Holder fired back, calling the vote a “regrettable culmination of what became a misguided and politically motivated investigation.” Who is right?
Poll: Eric Holder Contempt Vote Merited? Or House Too Fast, Furious?
Thursday vote was historic—first time a U.S. attorney general was held in contempt of Congress.
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Komfort June 16, 2013 at 05:34 pm
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Betty June 12, 2013 at 05:15 pm
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The [ATF], Welch contended, "makes every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and prevent their transportation to Mexico." Another Friday document dump has confirmed what agent testimony and other information have already shown — this letter, and almost everything in it, was a complete fabrication. ... on Friday, Deputy [AG] James Cole... wrote: "Facts have come to light during the course of this investigation that indicate the Feb. 4 letter contains inaccuracies...." On Feb. 3, ATF Agent Gary Styers addressed a memo to top officials of the Bureau. In it he corroborated the testimony fellow agent Dodson had provided Sen. Grassley one week earlier, asserting Dodson was quite correct in claims that the bureau "divided and isolated agents" while facilitating the deliberate walking of guns across the Mexican border So the Friday letter withdrawing the February letter is itself full of "inaccuracies..." Friday's document dump shows that DOJ knew the letter was deceptive as it was being drafted and that it was a monumental effort to conceal the truth." http://tinyurl.com/7jbylt6
" Mr. ISSA. I thank the Speaker. I submit the following: House of Representatives, COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM, Washington, DC, May 24, 2012. Hon. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Dear Ranking Member Cummings: Last February, I joined Senator Grassley in investigating Operation Fast and Furious, the reckless and fundamentally flawed program conducted by the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). As you know, during Fast and Furious, ATF agents let straw purchasers illegally acquire hundreds of firearms and walk away from Phoenix gun stores. The misguided goal of this operation was to allow the U.S.-based associates of a Mexican drug cartel to acquire firearms so they could be traced back to the associates once the firearms were recovered at crime scenes. On December 15, 2010, two guns from the Fast and Furious operation were the only ones found at the scene of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's murder..." http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?r112:2:./temp/~r112kJYGGW:e283095: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?r112:2:./temp/~r112kJYGGW:e293381: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?r112:2:./temp/~r112kJYGGW:e304312:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/opinion/27fri2.html
---Tom Foley (D) Speaker of the House ---George Mitchell (D) Senate Majority Leader Regarding uncorroborated eleven year old charges that George Bush 41 had snuck off to Paris just before the 1980 election to make a deal with the Ayatollah to delay the release of American hostages to help the Reagan-Bush campaign win. [FROM THE UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, AUG. 6, 1991] http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_cr/h920205-october-clips.htm Americans do not believe in redemption. http://santee.patch.com/articles/poll-how-would-jesus-vote-on-the-paul-ryan-budget-plan-in-congress#comment_3680598
Brian Terry is permanently dead.
Under which administration were the medical marijuana dispensaries raided and closed? Ed, unless you started smoking mj after you bought your last gun, you already committed perjury. Don't get me wrong, I favor legalization, and gun ownership. But I could never figure how anyone would get a mj card if he was a gun owner. You know the question they ask: " Do you use marijuana" so if you have signed both documents you are a perjurer unless of course you started after buying your last gun. And even that is "iffy".
"MARCH 2010 WIRETAP DETAILS HOW FAST AND FURIOUS FIREARMS HAD BEEN FOUND AT CRIME SCENES IN MEXICO The wiretap affidavit also details the very sort ``time-to-crime'' for many of the firearms purchased during Fast nd Furious. For example, on November 6, 2009, November 12, 2009, and November 14, 2009, Straw Purchaser Y purchased a total of 25 AK-47 type firearms from an FFL in Arizona. On November 20, 2009--just eight days later--Mexican officials recovered 17 of these firearms in Naco, Sonora, Mexico. Another straw purchaser, Straw Purchaser Q, purchased a total of 17 AK-47 type firearms from an FFL on November 3, 2009, November 10, 2009, and November 12, 2009. Then, on December 9, 2009, Mexican officials recovered 11 of these firearms in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, along with approximately 421 kilograms of cocaine, 60 kilograms of methamphetamine, 48 additional firearms, 392 ammunition cartridges, $2 million in U.S. currency, and $800,000 in Mexican currency. Once again, although ATF was aware of these facts, no one was arrested, and ATF failed to even approach the straw purchasers. Upon learning these details through its review of this wiretap affidavit, senior Justice Department officials had a duty to stop this operation. Further, failure to do so was a violation of Justice Department policy."
Thomasson also allegedly said that: “All these whistleblowers have axes to grind. ATF needs to f—k these guys...." Grassley and Issa have given Horowitz until July 6 to answer whether Thomasson was “admonished” for those threats against whistleblowers, how he got his job in the first place and how the DOJ and ATF are going to make sure he doesn’t retaliate against whistleblowers moving forward. The two lead Fast and Furious investigators also released new, never-before-public documents that show officials in ATF’s Washington headquarters were trying to cover up Fast and Furious two weeks before Grassley ever even asked about it.... Grassley and Issa released other internal documents, including emails [that] show that soon-to-be-former Assistant Attorney General Ron Weich – who is resigning to lead the University of Baltimore School of Law – may have been in on this cover-up plan. Weich was the author of a false Feb. 4, 2011 letter to Grassley, in which he denied – on behalf of Holder – gunwalking ever took place. Holder’s DOJ withdrew that letter 10 months later, in December 2011.
No upstanding NRA member is alarmed by the Phoenix man on food stamps who purchased 450+ weapons over a 6-month period with over $300.000 in cash, because guns DON'T kill people, people kill people. Arizona law does not ALLOW ATF agents to do a damn thing about massive gun purchases for cash or credit. If you are 18 and with no criminal record you can buy as many guns as you want with no tracking of the purchase. Neither Issa, Mica or good NRA members would do anything to change that, because guns don't kill people, people kill people. 70% of ALL cartel weapons come from the USA, and 50,000 people in Mexico have been killed in drug-related violence since 2006. That should not concern you because, as you KNOW, it is NOT about guns, because guns don't KILL PEOPLE, people kill people. Is the ATF a bunch of total screw-ups? Beyond any doubt YES! Did everyone all the way up the chain try to cover their own worthless a33es? No question! But these morons are not CAPABLE of a conspiracy! The one FTA agent who DID by weapons was the WHISTLEBLOWER in the case, agent Dotson, who after purchasing them went on a 4-day vacation. The 5 Phoenix agents who know what was going on have NEVER been brought before Issa's committee, and won't be, because this is a circus event, not an investigation. Issa doesn't care about agent Terry, or massive gun purchases, so what is the point of this?
If you exclude the 68% of weapons that Mexico doesn't even bother to submit to the ATF for tracing because the guns are obviously not from the U.S. like the RPGs from China and the full-auto AKs from former Soviet bloc countries and the C-4 explosives from El Salvador then 70% of the guns that can be traced from the 32% that are submitted including the 2500 that Barack Obama's ATF sold to Mexican drug lords are from the United States. Obama's executive branch is too stupid to carry out a conspiracy unlike George Bush who personally detonated the World Trade Center. Democrats are powerless to bring compliant ATF agents to a fake hearing like they did with Sandra Fluke. Whistleblowing is unpatriotic again. "ATF Special Agent John Dodson has testified how in one instance guns were sold to known illegal buyers who took them to a stash house. Against orders from his superiors, Dodson kept the stash house under surveillance and when a vehicle showed up to transfer the weapons to their ultimate destination, he called for an interdiction team to move in, seize the weapons and arrest the traffickers. His superiors refused, and the guns disappeared without surveillance." http://tinyurl.com/6rcorge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Y6UQLWPyY
---Josephine Terry ---Kent Terry Sr. 2012 Holders of the Cindy Sheehan Absolute Moral Authority Card
As previously noted, the ATF is nothing but a bunch of screw-ups. They have no idea what they are doing. On the other hand, that snake in a snakeskin jacket Issa knows exactly what he's doing. It's only FoxNews viewers that are incapable of seeing what's right before their eyes. A sleaze using the pain of a slain agent's family to advance his personal vendettas. What Holder did or didn't know about what the ATF idiots were doing has nothing to do with Terry's death. The vast majority of cartel weapons 70% are coming from us, to arm the cartels so they can bring more drugs to us. Agent Terry was killed with a gun from the U.S. Issa and his committee have absolutely no intention of doing anything that would solve that crime, or prevent more agents from being killed by weapons from the U.S. He wants to chew on Holder. He's chewing on Holder. When this circus is over, the Terry family won't know a damn thing more than they know today. Issa knows it, and you know it, too.