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BREAKING: After Issa and Holder Meet, Still No Documents, Contempt Charges Still Looming
Townhall.com ^ | June 19, 2012 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 06/19/2012 3:36:32 PM PDT by Kaslin

The meeting between Attorney General Eric Holder and Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa has ended after 20 minutes of discussion. Holder came with an offer of a briefing on Fast and Furious documents, but did not physically turn over any documents. This is unsatisfactory to Issa who has said repeatedly that in order for Holder to avoid a contempt vote Wednesday at 10 AM, he must hand over 1300 Fast and Furious documents to the committee.

"The documents they may choose to give in the future, we need before tomorrow," Issa said to reporters. "“Ultimately the documents needed for postponement seem to be in their possession.”

Holder's failure to produce documents at the 5 PM meeting come after he failed to present them by this morning as requested, after he failed to respond to an October 2011 subpoena as requested and after more than a year of requests for transparency surrounding his role in Operation Fast and Furious.

Issa said there is a chance Holder would submit the requested documents tonight but that a contempt vote is still scheduled for Wednesday and has released an official statement.

“I had hoped that after this evening’s meeting I would be able to tell you that the Department had delivered documents that would justify the postponement of tomorrow’s vote on contempt. The Department told the Committee on Thursday that it had documents it could produce that would answer our questions. Today, the Attorney General informed us that the Department would not be producing those documents. The only offer they made involved us ending our investigation.

“While I still hope the Department will reconsider its decision so tomorrow’s vote can be postponed, after this meeting I cannot say that I am optimistic. At this point, we simply do not have the documents we have repeatedly said we need to justify the postponement of a contempt vote in committee.”

Stay tuned for updates.


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KEYWORDS: 2deadfeds; 300deadmexicans; atf; banglist; corruption; dea; democrats; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; fraud; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; holdertruthfile; ice; murdergate; obama
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To: Principled

Wouldn’t have had to stick my finger down my throat to gag myself as bulimics are wont to do.


41 posted on 06/19/2012 5:16:34 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: MestaMachine

I’m a little [well, ok... more than a little] slow at times...


42 posted on 06/19/2012 5:19:03 PM PDT by Principled (It's not enthusiasm for Romney, it's grim determination to remove Hussein)
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To: Popman
“One has to wonder what he the hell holder is hiding”

-———————— what he the hell holder is SCHREDING.

43 posted on 06/19/2012 5:22:53 PM PDT by hummingbird (Breitbart and Spartacus: here, there, everywhere.)
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To: justa-hairyape

Why isn’t this an October surprise?

What more can be used for October surprise?


44 posted on 06/19/2012 5:27:19 PM PDT by hummingbird (Breitbart and Spartacus: here, there, everywhere.)
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To: bobo1
“Only someone as old as me would know that is from Casa Blanca!”


Of course I know that.

“Round up the usual suspects” is one of my favorite lines from that movie.

They are in “Casablanca”....means White House, doesn't it.

Used Casablanca intentionally? I've wondered about that for many years.

45 posted on 06/19/2012 5:33:38 PM PDT by hummingbird (Breitbart and Spartacus: here, there, everywhere.)
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To: goat granny
If Holder was a republican and democrats were running this hearing, Holder would already be in prison..

Guess who gets to arrest Holder and put him in prison for Contempt of Congress, if it comes to that?

The Attorney General of the USA would be responsible for enforcing a contempt decision.

46 posted on 06/19/2012 5:41:28 PM PDT by okie01
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To: Popman
One has to wonder what he the hell holder is hiding that is worth a contempt charge...

The President's involvement...from the very outset.

47 posted on 06/19/2012 5:44:12 PM PDT by okie01
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To: hummingbird

Sorry for the post burp.


48 posted on 06/19/2012 5:44:48 PM PDT by hummingbird (Breitbart and Spartacus: here, there, everywhere.)
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To: gaijin
Let us now see just HOW big a disaster the GOP wants on it’s hands come November.

Care to expand your thinking on that?

Separation of Powers conflicts are Big Deals and this clearly involves a corrosive racial divide as well. Yet doing nothing about this blatant contempt of Congress' Constitutional powers solves nothing. This may have to end with a bang, not a whimper.

49 posted on 06/19/2012 5:46:58 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: MestaMachine
“Wouldn’t have had to stick my finger down my throat to gag myself as bulimics are wont to do.”


My sister, who has always had a bit of a weight problem, says she is a failed bulimic because it sounds kind of messy to clean up, so she takes a pass on it.

50 posted on 06/19/2012 5:50:16 PM PDT by hummingbird (Breitbart and Spartacus: here, there, everywhere.)
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To: Kaslin

I know, just like Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football, I should be wary.

I guess it is just the sunshiny view I have of the world but I see a sliver of hope in this. I really do think they may hold him in contempt.

On the other hand the only way we will know is when it is reported here. I am not that gullible.


51 posted on 06/19/2012 5:56:02 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Nachum
Loom, loom, loom. Wake me up when the Reps grow some.

Other than that, thanks always for the pings.

52 posted on 06/19/2012 6:05:50 PM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic ( (#withNewt))
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To: bobo1

I love every movie Cary Grant ever made.


53 posted on 06/19/2012 6:23:57 PM PDT by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: bobo1

I love every movie Cary Grant ever made.


54 posted on 06/19/2012 6:24:14 PM PDT by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: Kaslin

Enough pussy footing around we these criminals. I’ve already sent clear msg to my rep and senators demanding they pull the trigger. As for “boner” we can’t primary his ass this time but 2014 isn’t that far off. Do these elite pricks think that tea party types who meet every Tuesday night at 7 are just going to go away?


55 posted on 06/19/2012 6:27:48 PM PDT by BarryM
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Exactly how I read that one too. It appears that Holder actually threatened Issa, and Issa isn’t backing down. That’s how I read it.


56 posted on 06/19/2012 6:58:12 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: bobo1
"Only someone as old as me would know that is from Casa Blanca!

You young pups don't know squat!

It is from Casablanca.

57 posted on 06/19/2012 7:19:49 PM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: hummingbird

Would not be a surprise, for one. At any rate, there will be a surprise for DC, if they continue to ignore our laws.


58 posted on 06/19/2012 7:22:19 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: submarinerswife

I am not that old, but isn’t it Casablanca.


59 posted on 06/19/2012 7:34:36 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I just hate our government. All of them. Republican and Democrat.)
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To: submarinerswife

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, Casa Blanca was Humphrey Bogart!

Blessings, Bobo


60 posted on 06/19/2012 8:13:51 PM PDT by bobo1 (i)
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