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Trump administration to provide records on Obama-era gun-smuggling probe
Reuters ^ | May 16, 2018 | Sarah N. Lynch

Posted on 05/17/2018 6:47:04 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to provide congressional investigators confidential records on a failed gun-trafficking operation during the Obama administration known as "Fast and Furious" that long has been criticized by Republican lawmakers.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department would hand over documents to the Republican-led House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that had been withheld by Democratic former President Barack Obama's administration.

The agreement reached by Republican President Donald Trump's administration will effectively end a six-year long legal battle in which the committee had gone to federal court to try to enforce a subpoena it had issued to obtain the records.

Congressional Republicans have been pressing the Justice Department for years about the operation. Named after a movie about car racing, the operation sought to curb gun-trafficking criminals who were selling weapons to Mexican drug cartels.

In June 2012, the Republican-led House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder, an Obama appointee, in contempt for failing to turn over documents about the operation. The committee sued Holder for access to the documents in August 2012. Obama asserted executive privilege to block the disclosure of the documents.

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To: COUNTrecount

Guns for Animals?


41 posted on 05/17/2018 7:51:49 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: COUNTrecount

Another campaign promise being fulfilled. GO TRUMP GO


42 posted on 05/17/2018 7:52:21 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Zathras

Maybe Rudy hasn’t been on top of his game lately, but he certainly knows where the bodies are buried. Literally. And he’s pretty fearless.


43 posted on 05/17/2018 7:53:36 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Fantasywriter

Hi.

Does anyone remember that shortly after 0bama was sworn in, the first news conference he held was with Hillary (SOS), and Holder regarding the weapons going to cartels, and they were going to stop it?

They blamed all the guns in America for the problem.

An attempt on the 2nd Amendment it was.

5.56mm


44 posted on 05/17/2018 7:58:36 AM PDT by M Kehoe (THIS SPACE FOR RENT)
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To: COUNTrecount

There may be a statute of limitations problem here. Evade the truth long enough, like Hellary and others who should be in prison do, and it’s suddenly no problem and just an annoyance.


45 posted on 05/17/2018 8:00:19 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: struggle

I love your reading of prehistory.


46 posted on 05/17/2018 8:01:38 AM PDT by BlueYonder
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To: M Kehoe

Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten all about that.

Fast and Furious was clearly nothing more than an effort to demonize American guns. That it failed in its fundamental purpose is not enough. Those responsible should have been held accountable. Thanks to Horowitz, they weren’t.


47 posted on 05/17/2018 8:03:53 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: bk1000

“Holder needs to find himself at the end of a rope over F&F. “

American citizens DIED because of this....


48 posted on 05/17/2018 8:29:34 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: COUNTrecount

“In a statement issued on Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department would hand over documents to the Republican-led House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that had been withheld by Democratic former President Barack Obama’s administration.”

Oh how gracious of the Observer General to take a moment while he is busy auditing the job. Of course the documents will be so heavily redacted “for national security” that they will be meaningless. We wouldn’t want anyone to get in trouble would we? (Not that the General would prosecute.)


49 posted on 05/17/2018 8:32:17 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Crucial; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/06/law-enforcement-sources-gun-used-paris-terrorist-attacks-came-phoenix/

One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks came from Phoenix, Arizona where the Obama administration allowed criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally in a deadly and futile “gun-walking” operation known as “Fast and Furious.”


50 posted on 05/17/2018 8:33:39 AM PDT by bitt (t)
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To: Crucial; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/06/law-enforcement-sources-gun-used-paris-terrorist-attacks-came-phoenix/

One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks came from Phoenix, Arizona where the Obama administration allowed criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally in a deadly and futile “gun-walking” operation known as “Fast and Furious.”


51 posted on 05/17/2018 8:33:40 AM PDT by bitt (t)
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To: Texas Fossil

“That was not what the intention was. It was intended to be used as a tool to go after the 2nd Amendment. “

And her royal thighness was in it too up to her elliptical pupils.


52 posted on 05/17/2018 8:34:32 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: bk1000

“Holder needs to find himself at the end of a rope over F&F. Soon.”

Doing the Tyburn jig.


53 posted on 05/17/2018 8:35:40 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Vendome

“Whatever....

The time clock expired for indictments. ..”

We could get Reichs Kanzler Herr Mueller to waive the statute of limitations like he did to Manafort.


54 posted on 05/17/2018 8:39:00 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

Yes, Hillary was.


55 posted on 05/17/2018 8:41:24 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: M Kehoe
They blamed all the guns in America for the problem.

"An iron river of guns"...ATF and soon after, Hillary Clinton.

56 posted on 05/17/2018 9:26:36 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Roccus

S/B

“An iron river of guns flowing into Mexico”


57 posted on 05/17/2018 9:27:56 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: bitt

So Obama’s guns went to terrorists as well as our money.


58 posted on 05/17/2018 10:41:02 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: FreedomPoster

The Arkincide list...

Wouldn’t That be interesting.


59 posted on 05/17/2018 11:06:49 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: COUNTrecount
Typical occupation media narrative: "failed gun-trafficking operation."

As if the "failure" was the problem and not the "gun-trafficking operation."

The deep state is a cancer infecting western society.

The government gun-trafficking operation was a crime against humanity resulting in numerous deaths. It was intended to result in the killing of innocents as a basis to destroy American civil rights.

No different than a certain attack on a radio station before the German invasion of Poland.
60 posted on 05/17/2018 11:17:50 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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