Jun 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Headline photo: AZ Governor Jan Brewer comforting Brian Terry's mother Josephine Terry family attorney Pat McGroder released the following statement Wednesday from Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's parents, Josephine Terry and Kent Terry Sr.: "Attorney General Eric Holder's refusal to fully disclose the documents associated with Operation Fast and Furious and President Obama's assertion of executive privilege ...
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Jun 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from KTAR: The mother of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry spoke with, WPHT, a radio station in Philadelphia, Wednesday morning and said President Obama is ‘compounding this tragedy' with the executive privilege assertion in connection with the Fast and Furious program. "The only thing I can say is, if he did that they apparently ...
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Jun 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Buzz Feed: Speaker of the House John Boehner escalated the battle between the House of Representatives and the Executive Branch today over documents relating to the botched "Fast and Furious" gun trafficking operation, accusing the White House of possibly being complicit in a cover-up. "Until now, everyone believed that the decisions regarding ‘Fast and ...
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Jun 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Poltico: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena in the “Fast and Furious” investigation, setting up a legal showdown with President Barack Obama in the middle of his tough reelection ...
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Holder Issues Second Major “Fast And Furious” Retraction, Says Bush Team Didn’t Know About Operation
Jun 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
In a second major retraction over its version of the the gun-walking scandal, the Justice Department has retracted Attorney General Eric Holder's charge in a hearing last week that his Bush administration predecessor had been briefed on the affair. In a memo just released by Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Iowa senator reveals that Holder also didn't ...
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Jun 20, 2012 No Comments ›› tlmertz
By Tlmertz President Obama once again showed disdain for the truth, and a lack of concern for the will of the American people when he claimed executive privilege over the documents relating to the botched ATF operation "Fast and Furious", which ended in the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Executive Privilege is meant to ...
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Jun 20, 2012 3 Comments ›› Snarky Basterd
By now, you probably know that President Barack Obama invoked executive privilege to stall Congress' attempt to get Attorney General Eric Holder to fork over documents in the Fast and Furious Scandal. You probably also know, by now, that Obama explicitly spoke out against executive privilege before he was president, saying "the American people need to know what's going on," ...
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Jun 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Does Obama asserting executive privilege indicate that he was involved? Rep. Darrell Issa pressed ahead with a committee vote Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, despite an 11th-hour move by President Obama to exert executive privilege over the Fast and Furious documents at the heart of the dispute. The announcement touched ...
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Jun 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Politico: GOP Rep. Darrell Issa warned Attorney General Eric Holder late Monday that if the Justice Department failed to turn over documents he is seeking, the California Republican will go ahead with a contempt vote against Holder as planned later this week. Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has been ...
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Jun 11, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Hill: The Department of Justice blasted Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Monday for playing "political games at the expense of all Americans." The DOJ’s comments were in response to the powerful Oversight chairman’s announcement that he plans to move forward next week with a resolution placing Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of ...
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Apr 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
UPDATE: Misinformation has been floating around the internet and on tv news that Issa has House Speaker John Boehner's backing on the citation. As noted below, he has not yet made a formal decision on the matter. (CBS News) -- House Republicans investigating the Fast and Furious scandal plan to pursue a contempt citation against Attorney ...
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Apr 26, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe is not buying the mea culpa offered by the EPA official who bragged about the agency’s “crucify them” enforcement philosophy against oil and gas companies. “His apology was meaningless,” Inhofe told The Daily Caller in a Thursday morning interview. “You’re going to treat people like the Romans ...
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Apr 26, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: U.S. Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich plans to resign his position soon, as two different scandals rage on in which he has provided allegedly misleading information to Congress. Weich, who has served as Attorney General Eric Holder’s emissary in congressional communications, will become the next dean of the University of Baltimore ...
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Mar 25, 2012 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
CNN -- The latest twist in the tug of war over Department of Justice documents central to the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious came Friday evening, when a top Justice official refused a congressional request for subpoenaed documents and blamed GOP lawmakers over the leaking of sensitive information. In a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa, ...
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Mar 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington— Seven months after federal agents began the ill-fated Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation, they stumbled upon their main suspect in a remote Arizona outpost on the Mexican border, driving an old BMW with 74 rounds of ammunition and nine cellphones hidden inside. Detained for questioning that day ...
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Feb 29, 2012 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Daily Caller: A visibly frustrated Attorney General Eric Holder slammed the table when responding to a question about Operation Fast and Furious during a Tuesday budget hearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. “That was a fundamentally flawed program, fundamentally flawed,” Holder said of Fast and Furious. “And, I think ...
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