Posted on 07/11/2011 4:59:22 PM PDT by Nachum
(CNSNews.com) - House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) says he does not believe Attorney General Eric Holder gave accurate testimony when Issa questioned him in the House Judiciary Committee on May 3.
In that testimony, Holder told the Judiciary Committee he had “probably” heard only in the “last few weeks” about the Justice Department’s “Operation Fast and Furious.” Issa told CNSNews.com he is convinced—“absolutely”—that Holder knew about the operation earlier than he claimed.
Operation Fast and Furious, begun in 2009, purposefully allowed known and suspected smugglers to purchase weapons at licensed gun dealers in the United States—sometimes while under active surveillance by U.S. law enforcement--and then allowed the smugglers to get away with the weapons, in some cases delivering them, as the government expected, to Mexican drug cartels. Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were specifically ordered not to stop the purchases, not to intercept the smugglers after they made the purchases, and not to retrieve the weapons.
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Holder must believe Issa is just tryin to keep the black man down...
Lying to Congress is a crime.
If: Obamaloon team
Then: Corrupt, affirmative action, and incompetent.
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So Issa, what are you going to do about it?
If he were a Republican, he’d be under indictment.
Let the indictments commence
What can we do to stop these murderers? Rule of law means nothing there. I have apitchfork and a mag lite.
IOW, he’s a liar. It would be so refreshing to see someone grow a pair and address these criminals in simple English.
Well if he didn’t know he should still be fired, for incompetence. He is the head of the DOJ and had never heard of an operation this critical?
Holder is a duplicitous sack of crap!
It's all GW's fault!
>>Lying to Congress is a crime.<<
Who was the last person convicted of that particular crime?
>So Issa, what are you going to do about it?<
he is setting up a case for a special prosecutor
Jury selection is underway in the trial of Roger Clemons, who is accused of lying to Congress about steroid and HGH use in baseball.
Has anyone in this century been convicted of lying to the liars?
September 26, 1956: Harvey Matusow was sentenced to five years in prison for perjury after admitting in his book ''False Witness'' that his testimony before Congress in which he named more than 200 people as Communist or Communist sympathizer was nothing but a pack of lies.
January 1, 1975: Former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, along with former Attorney General John Mitchell, both who served under Richard M. Nixon were convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury stemming from testimony before the Senate Select Committee in the cover up of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters.
January 9, 1984: Rita M. Lavelle, former chief of the Environmental Protection Agency's toxic waste programs, was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $10,000 for lying to a Congressional investigative subcommittees surrounding the extent of her knowledge about her former employer (Aerojet General Corporation) disposing of toxic wastes at the Stringfellow Acid Pits near Riverside, Calif.
October 26, 1993: Deborah Gore Dean, an executive assistant at the Department of Housing and Urban Development was convicted of 12 felony counts, including steering HUD contracts to favored developers, lying to Congress and taking bribes
October 18, 1994: Jerry Weissman, the Chief Financial Officer of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on charges he lied to a Senate subcommittee and obstructed its investigation of financial regularities at the company. On March 4, 1997, Weismann was convicted of concealing $80 million in losses his company had suffered under his reign.
Plus there were a number of pardons granted to Reagan officials by the first President Bush for their false testimony during the Iran-Contra Affair.
Accurate testimony? If Holder was under oath, it's called perjury.
Holder has GOT to go, NOW!
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