Issa, Chaffetz confirm contempt of Congress plans for Holder over Fast and Furious

[Dennis Olson]

Issa, Chaffetz confirm contempt plans for Holder over Fast and Furious
Published April 27, 2012
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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.
"The Justice Department has not fully cooperated with the investigation into gunwalking that occurred in Operation Fast and Furious.The House Oversight Committee continues to make necessary preparations to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt if the Justice Department refuses to change course and stop blocking access to critical documents," a House Oversight Committee spokesperson said. "While the committee continues to move toward consideration of contempt, it is important to note that the next step in the process of contempt must be made by the Oversight committee Reports, based on anonymous sources, that decisions for consideration of contempt on the House floor have already been made are inaccurate.”
Issa said investigator still want to know the names of those worked in the program.
Two were found where U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot to death south of Tucson in December 2010.
A number of illegal straw purchasers have been indicted, and two others are charged in Terry's slaying, according to the Times.
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[Lone Wolf]

Stonewall will continue untill after the election..untill a new President can get his own people inside that office.

If obummah is re-elected you will not hear anything else from holder.

This will die on the vine.

lw

[Flippper]

Um....no accessory to murder, conspiracy to commit murder, felony crime involving a firearm? OOOOOh, I bet ol' holder's just 'a shakin' in his pink fuzzy slippers.

[Beetree]

Imagine all of the guns STILL circulating and killing. The amount of deaths is horrific. Murder. And perpetrated by the ones in charge of keeping guns away from this type of action. ATF how can they live with theirselves? Don't they see the faces of the 45 to 80,000..souls murdered when they close their eyes at night?

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Mexico Seizes 68,000 Guns From U.S. Since 2006

WASHINGTON (April 26, 2012)--About 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities over the past five years have been traced back to the United States, the government said Thursday.

The flood of tens of thousands of weapons underscores complaints from Mexico that the U.S. is responsible for arming the drug cartels plaguing its southern neighbor.

Six years of violence between warring cartels has resulted in the deaths of more than 47,000 people in
Mexico.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released its latest data covering 2007 through 2011 on Thursday.

According to ATF, many of the guns seized in Mexico and submitted to ATF for tracing were recovered at the scenes of cartel shootings while others were seized in raids on illegal arms caches.

All of the recovered weapons were suspected of being used in crimes in Mexico.
http://www.kwtx.com/news/national/headlines/Mexico

[Kent]

I am sure the documents have already been shredded.

[Hallmars]

Sounds like Mexico has a border problem. Maybe they should look into securing their border...

[nharrold]

"ATF how can they live with theirselves?"

Just followin' orders, doncha know...

[Jonas Parker]

"ATF how can they live with theirselves?"

Just followin' orders, doncha know...

Hmmm. As I recall, that defense didn't work too well at Nuremberg in 1946...