Posted on 04/30/2012 5:57:17 AM PDT by marktwain
House GOP leaders said Friday they are pursuing a plan to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and the Justice Department in contempt for “stonewalling” them over information regarding the administration’s failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking program.
GOP Rep. Darrell Issa confirmed to Fox News that House Speaker John Boehner gave him and others on his House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform the authority to drafted a contempt of Congress resolution.
“We have a few other options (but) to a great extent we’ve been stonewalled by the Justice Department,” said Issa, R-Calif.
The news of the document and the extended meeting in Boehner’s office was reported first by The Los Angeles Times.
“We have issued a subpoena,” Utah GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a member of the oversight committee, said earlier on Fox News. “We have bent over backwards to be patient and take time. (Holder) is leading us down a path where we have no other choice.”
The resolution, if approved by the GOP-led House, could force Holder to release thousands of pages of documents related to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ program.
Holder and other Justice Department officials say they are cooperating with Congress’ investigators.
The Fast and Furious program was run by the ATF’s Phoenix office from 2009 until early 2011. It allowed illegal gun purchases with the expectation of tracking the weapons to Mexican drug cartel leaders. However, hundreds of guns disappeared, with some eventually turning up at crime scenes in Mexico.
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>> I can’t give you a date certain
That’s a double standard, but it’s OK; I understand.
I wouldn’t stick my neck out for that ineffectual gasbag, either, if I were you.
Which, I guess, is my entire point.
Issa will probably never “bail”, because his grandstanding is his ticket to re-election.
But he’ll likely never obtain success, either. Just another damned feckless (R) pretending to be a conservative. Putting on a show, but never achieving results, even with a sizeable majority. A pox on them all.
Agreed lots of hot air & nothing else . The only folks that will get punished in this will be those Federal agents that blew the whistle & provide unredacted documents to the Congressional investigators.
Chaffetz is doing a great job. He is my congressman.
Then, if our elected officials won’t remove them, the American People will have to do it. The thing is, Holder lied, people died, and someone is going to have to be held accountable. The US Government is also going to have to give up some restrictions on firearms because of this. It’s a purely punitive measure but one that is going to have to take place.
Either that or they’ll find no respect for the Government or LE in general and that could potentially lead to bad ju ju on all sides.
Bad ju ju indeed!
Mike
>> In about one month (by Memorial Day) when you will be proven wrong, will you apologize?
Memorial Day has come and gone, Sal.
Darryl Issa remains the same ineffectual grandstanding poseur he always was.
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>> In about one month (by Memorial Day) when you will be proven wrong, will you apologize?
Memorial Day has come and gone, Sal.
Darryl Issa remains the same ineffectual grandstanding poseur he always was.
Comments?
With Romney leading or even in many polls, The Crier and Mumbles will be tip toeing to November. No chance they will make waves doing anything like charging Holder.
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