Congressional Investigators to Subpoena Holder in Fast and Furious

Congressional investigators probing the failed anti-gunning operation Fast and Furious are sending a new subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder -seeking communications from about a dozen top justice officials. Investigators will demand information regarding the death investigation into death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. Two guns found at Terry's crime scene were linked to the failed operation that allowed more than 2,000 weapons to "walk." Holder told Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., that he "probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks." Fox News obtained documents that indicated Holder knew about it as early as nine months before that. Issa told Holder in a letter saying, "Operation Fast and Furious was the Department's most significant gun trafficking case. Whether you realize yet or not, YOU OWN FAST AND FURIOUS. It is your responsibility."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ebLFmI2f0Y

Holder : Make Assault Weapons Ban Permanent

Uploaded by kapicks on Jan 15, 2009

During his senate confirmation hearing, Eric Holder reaffirmed several of his anti-gun stances.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/03/24/a-self-inflicted-gun-wound.html

A Self-Inflicted Gun Wound
Mar 24, 2009 8:00 PM EDT

Michael Isikoff

Why is Attorney General Eric Holder backing away from an assault weapons ban?

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Speaking at a Feb. 25 news conference announcing a roundup of Mexican cartel members in the United States, Holder endorsed reinstituting the ban on assault weapons—a position that President Obama himself supported during last year’s campaign. A federal ban on high-powered, semi-automatic assault weapons, originally passed by Congress in 1994, expired five years ago.

“There are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,” Holder said in response to a question from a Mexican reporter. “I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico at a minimum.” Holder then ducked a follow-up question about whether he expected Congress to act on a renewed ban this year, saying, “I’m not sure exactly what the sequencing will be” on legislative issues that the Obama administration presses on Capitol Hill.

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Holder’s about-face was no accident. White House officials instructed the attorney general to tone down any further talk about assault weapons in order not to complicate the president’s legislative agenda on Capitol Hill, according to administration and congressional sources who, like others quoted in this story, asked not to be named talking about internal deliberations. (An assault weapons ban was also conspicuously off the table when the Obama administraton unveiled new proposals to combat Mexican cartel violence.) “We’ve been told to lay low,” a Democratic congressional aide said he was told when he raised the issue of a new assault weapons ban with a Justice Department official.

http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1244145382319.shtm

Secretary Napolitano Announces Southwest Border Task Force

Release Date: June 4, 2009

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/12/AR2009111211331.html

U.S.-Mexico task force seeks renewed ban on assault weapons

By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 13, 2009

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