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Posted on 01/19/2012 1:04:47 PM PST by Kaslin
Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa is back on the Fast and Furious trail and announced the issuance of a new subpoena today to Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S Attorney's Office for Arizona Patrick Cunningham. Cunningham was asked politely to voluntarily testify before the committee about Operation Fast and Furious, but refused. In a letter sent to Cunningham announcing the subpoena, Issa doesn't mince words, saying Cunningham approved tactics used in the lethal program. Cunningham was scheduled for an interview with Issa today but canceled after implying he was willing to cooperate with the investigation, further delaying the Oversight Committee's ability to get to the bottom of Fast and Furious. Considering Justice Department officials have done nothing but stonewall Issa up to this point, the move wasn't surprising and this tactic is nothing new.
“During the course of our investigation, the Committee has learned of the outsized role played by the Arizona U.S. Attorney’s Office – and you specifically – in approving the unacceptable tactics used in Fast and Furious,” Chairman Issa wrote to Cunningham in a letter informing him of the subpoena. “Senior Justice Department officials have recently told the Committee that you relayed inaccurate and misleading information to the Department in preparation for its initial response to Congress."
Cunningham is under fire for participating in the cover up of the program even after Congress launched an investigation.
“These officials told us that even after Congress began investigating Fast and Furious, you continued to insist that no unacceptable tactics were used. In fact, documents obtained confidentially just last week appear to confirm that you remained steadfast in your belief that no unacceptable tactics were used, even after the Department’s initial response to the congressional inquiry. Given that the Attorney General has labeled these tactics as unacceptable and Fast and Furious as ‘fundamentally flawed,’ this position is startling,” Issa wrote.
Remember, Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, Cunningham's boss, resigned in August just two weeks after giving closed door testimony to the House Oversight Committee. He did not mention Fast and Furious in his resignation letter addressed to President Obama. Attorney General Eric Holder will face his day before the committee on February 2, just over a week away.
Why not? Dupnick does it in Tucson.
This is all part of the rat playbook. Every time we fall for their tactics, it's running out the clock.
Is Cong. Issa stupid? Carry around a pad of blanket subpoena's everywhere. Call the guy who resigned. Make him take the stand and perjure himself, but do this today.
Hell, Hussein has destroyed the Constitution. Send the Sargent of Arms to this guys house in a Black Maria. Haul these rats out of their holes and water board him.
Congress needs it's own SWAT team. Do it now, while it's still light out
Go get them, you coward! We can no longer suffer these fools.
Keep stonewalling, Dems. All the better to keep it bubbling along right through the general election, my dear.
Definitely! In the Dupnik tradition the SWAT members should be SEAL wannabes with Barney Fife training and none of them should have ever met much less trained together.
I would like for the Republicans to publicly ask Democrats why appointees should not be required to answer Congressional questions as a condition of employment, and why refusal to answer such questions should not be considered adequate grounds for impeachment and removal?
He’ll find any excuse not to have to answer. The rats are after all so predictable
“Waiting on the arrest warrants...”
I don’t think this investigation will result in any arrests. Congressional investigations always end these days with a report and no teeth. Been that way every since “The Star” report.
Shoot that’s too nice. Just impeach them (if the GOP had a sliver of a cojone left).
But this one is much bigger than most. Heinous in its nature and when all the facts are laid out it will likely point to an end run around voting to eliminate Second Amendment Rights in the united States. And we just might have seen the first big crack in the ice...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2835463/posts
Pleading the Fifth can prevent him from incriminating himself but it also is a clear indicator that Issa is getting very close now. Patrick J. Cunningham is the chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney's Office. His representation submitted this as the reason for going with the Fifth.
“My client is, in fact, innocent, but he has been ensnared by the unfortunate circumstances in which he now stands between two branches of government. I will therefore be instructing him to assert his constitutional privilege,” Mr. Romero wrote.
Ok, he is the criminal division chief "ensnared by the unfortunate circumstances." How could he be in that position unless someone put him there? A subordinate could not do that so it must have been someone above him.
Who is above the the chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona?
Just who is his boss?
:-)
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Well we can hope. But I am still not holding my breath. No question as to some real criminal activity going on.
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