Issa escalates: Accuses Obama of involvement in Fast and Furious

American Thinker ^ | June 27, 2012 | Rick Moran

[kingattax]

Rep. Darrell Issa threw down the gauntlet to President Obama in a letter to the president that accuses him of being involved in the Fast and Furious operation.

The Hill:

Issa took issue with Obama's assertion of executive privilege over a cache of documents at the Department of Justice - including a February 2011 letter later withdrawn by the agency - that Issa believes includes information on Holder's role in Fast and Furious.

"Either you or your most senior advisers were involved in managing Operation Fast and Furious and the fallout from it, including the false Feb. 4, 2011 letter provided by the attorney general to the committee," Issa wrote to Obama. "Or, you are asserting a presidential power that you know to be unjustified solely for the purpose of further obstructing a congressional investigation."

[In Maryland]

People on this board have been criticizing Issa for his pace, but I think he has been masterful. He is playing chess, thinking three moves ahead; Obama and such are playing an impulsive game of checkers.

[Michael Barnes]

There is also a handful of us who have recanted our previous posts on Issa. Personally, I thought he was acting like a soundbite queen but can no longer deny he is turning up some heat and is playing a masters game.

Keep it up Issa.

[hattend]

Too bad there is no modern day Woodward and Berstein interested in a freakin’ Pulitzer Prize.

[hattend]

(OBAMA NOV 2012 = HORSEMEAT)

Wouldn't that be "DOGMEAT"?

[magua]

I agree with your remark about a whistler blowers. After congress finds Holder in contempt some people will start to feel the heat. Phone calls will be made to Issa for immunity. Then get out the popcorn.

[Para-Ord.45]

Just a coincidence the neo-marxist Democrats had legislation all prepared once the F&F scheme worked out as they hoped it would:

Legislation Introduced To Stem Gun Trafficking
Bill by Reps. Maloney, Cummings, McCarthy empowers law enforcement to keep firearms out of criminal hands—

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) introduced the “Stop Gun Trafficking and Strengthen Law Enforcement Act.”

http://democrats.oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5376&Itemid=49

[Scott from the Left Coast]

IF Issa were a Democrat and Obama a Republican, the Democrat Propoganda Media (call them what they are, LSM or MSM or any other acronymn is merely covering it up) would be covering nothing else - they’d even supercede their sport’s coverage and their Zimmerman or Sandusky coverage for it.

[hattend]

Exactly right. Nixon’s scandal was every night, 7 days a week on the nightly news.

Nowadays... the Kardashians have new boyfriends!

[New Jersey Realist]

Does that mean Issa is a racist?

[M Kehoe]

And the elevator operator says, "going down."

5.56mm

[driftdiver]

There have been numerous reports that Issa has an internal source who has provided copies of emails. Those apparently can’t be used so he’s seeking to get official versions of them.

[American in Israel]

Wouldn't that be "DOGMEAT"?

No, dogmeat is not Halal, Obama Hussain would not touch it...

[TigersEye]

The audacity of arrogance is catching up with 0bozo.

[Lucky9teen]

[halfright]

I didnt believe it until I saw for myself. An ENTIRE WEB PAGE worth. Must give props to cBS on this attempt to scoop the other networks. :)

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-57461204-10391695/a-primer-on-the-fast-and-furious-scandal/

[StAnDeliver]

I appreciate Issa’s straightforwardness, Attorney General Issa perhaps ... His timing is good, the MSM were going to focus on Bobo’s campaign swing and exclude Mittens this week, but they’ve been forced to report on every single move Issa makes...

[Raycpa]

I have always wondered, of the documents Issa is asking for, how many has he already received under the table? I suspect soetoro and holder are wondering the same thing.,

Of course they know. The problem is what does Holder have in his files on the GOP congress. From experience we learned that our guys have plenty of skeletons in the closet and the democrats are not afraid to use it.

[ROTB]

Hello FReeper "In Maryland",

You said ...

People on this board have been criticizing Issa for his pace, but I think he has been masterful. He is playing chess, thinking three moves ahead; Obama and such are playing an impulsive game of checkers.

... and FReeper "kingattax" said ...

Looks to me like Issa wasn’t the one escalating the potential for a confrontation.

The more I see the more I am sure Obama wants to find some confrontation so big as to take the economy off the table and let him demagog the issue into President for Life, w/o elections, congress or the courts to second guess his reign.

Question: Why could not Obama use Issa's investigation as a "racist" attack on his presidency? Do you think Issa's timing is such that F&F will come to a head after the November elections?

[StAnDeliver]

"Just a coincidence the neo-marxist Democrats had legislation all prepared once the F&F scheme worked out as they hoped it would"

Check it, at the page linked, the NYT yammering editorial was pre-sched to the minute -- but notably it had to be rather fugly reconstructed in light of the coming-to-light of F&F's illegal ops.

[MestaMachine]

The story was released YESTERDAY. Issa sent the letter and gave it to the press in the middle of the night with the admonition that it be embargoed until morning. I first saw it in Washington Post.