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| Project Gunwalker: Call for Special Counsel on Holder |
| 2011-10-04 |
| Fox just broke the news, the letter has been sent to Obama. House Republicans are going to call for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Holder perjured himself during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious, Fox News has learned. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is sending a letter to President Obama arguing that Holder cannot investigate himself and will request a probe by a special counsel. The question is whether Holder committed perjury during a Judiciary Committee hearing in May. At the time, Holder indicated he was not familiar with with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives program known as Fast and Furious. However, a newly discovered memo dated July 2010 shows Michael Walther, director of the National Drug Intelligence Center, told Holder that straw buyers in the Fast and Furious operation "are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to the Mexican drug trafficking cartels." In response to the Monday release of that and other documents, the Justice Department said Holder was confused by the question, and that he was answering about when he first learned of the "troubling tactics" of the program, not the name of it. But House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., told Fox News on Tuesday morning that Holder saying he didn't understand the question rather than he didn't know of the program is not a successful defense to perjury. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #9 Nothing will happen. It would be racist, you know. And the Administration is fearless about making documents disappear (maybe people too, if they seem too big a risk.) No 22 minute gap in a tape - the whole tape would be gone, and nobody could say what happened to it, maybe cockroaches or something. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-10-04 18:44 |
| #8 All I've got to say is that is about f-ing time. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2011-10-04 17:44 |
| #7 That 'active interference' used to work so much better before the Internet came along. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-04 17:33 |
| #6 Except the media was eager to look into Watergate because it involved a Republican President that they loathed. Zero is their baby and they are actively running interference on this for him. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2011-10-04 17:30 |
| #5 every time the administration stonewalls, it's another nail in their coffin -- an uncanny resemblance to Watergate. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-04 17:12 |
| #4 You have a hostile administration. You have a hostile press, unless they smell blood and know someone is going down. So what the House Judiciary Committee is doing is a step by step process of building a case while DOJ and O keep obstructing. It will take time, but every time the administration stonewalls, it's another nail in their coffin. Next thing that will happen is that 10 billion documents will have disappeared. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-10-04 16:31 |
| #3 The bright side of F&F is that every dollar Obama spends running guns to Mexico is one less dollar to throw away on dead beat solar panel companies or to bail out insolvent banks. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-04 15:34 |
| #2 At least the House will then have grounds to vote articles of impeachment should a special counsel NOT be appointed, or, if appointed, interfered with by the Obamadministration. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-04 15:30 |
| #1 Why can't they just impeach Holder? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-04 15:23 |