Posted on 06/29/2012 10:20:30 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike
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 floor.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
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Is this page loading for anyone? It’s breaking news on Drudge but I can’t get Rollcall to open so I can see it.
It won’t load via Drudge as well.
Guess it's not over. Can Cummings have ethics charges brought against him for lying?
Folks make sure FOX Rush, Hannity, Drudge.BB etc gets this information
BTTT
Hope link loads later.
What do you guys think gets more airtime on the news tonight? Katie Holmes and Tom Cruises split, or this? /sarcasm
On overload....few 100,000 people trying to get on to read it?
He's a Dem congresscritter, and he's black. They'll give him a medal.
Hate to ask, but what is going on??
rollcall.com probably is getting huge traffic from being a red headline at the top of drudge that it can’t handle.
you can google for other sites that have the story, something like
issa illegal wiretaps
the story is spreading all over
tit for tat.
Holder selectively released documents directly to the MSM (not to Issa) that made Holder appear pro-active, just before yesterday’s vote.
Methinks Issa is holding better cards.
Bangety bang!
All I can say is it is explosive as it names 3 top DOJ officials from the criminal division specifically, the F&F operation is detailed in the wiretapps and the fact that ATF watched the guns walk but did not interdict. But more damning is that the DOJ didn’t stop the program!!!
Amen....he’s black and a Dem....NOTHING CAN HAPPEN TO HIM!!
same? different? similar?http://www.examiner.com/article/revealed-secret-wiretap-tapes-trouble-for-attorney-general-eric-holder-and-doj
I wonder how Issa got hold of these documents.
It’s for sure that turning evidence against Holder over to Elijah Cummings is a bit like tossing it in the trash.
Cummings is one of the boys.
And Issa got these wiretapp apps into the public record (they were court sealed) due to the floor debate for the contempt vote. LOL!!!
Maybe it was this”
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/06/28/Issa-Sets-Record-Straight-On-Fast-Furious-Facts
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