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Issa drops big one on Holder, secondary legal explosions seen in the direction of the White House.
Sipsey Street Irregulars ^ | 12 Oct, 2011 | Mike Vanderboegh

Posted on 10/12/2011 11:20:19 PM PDT by Watchdog85

Just in case Barack Obama still held out hope for Eric Holder's portion of the cover-up, the Issa committee released their subpoena today.

Oversight Committee Subpoenas Attorney General for ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ Communications and Documents

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) today announced the issuance of a subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. for Justice Department documents related to the "Operation Fast and Furious" gun walking scandal.

"Top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Holder, know more about Operation Fast and Furious than they have publicly acknowledged," said Chairman Issa. "The documents this subpoena demands will provide answers to questions that Justice officials have tried to avoid since this investigation began eight months ago. It's time we know the whole truth."

The subpoena seeks the following:

In accordance with the attached schedule instructions, you, Eric H. Holder Jr., are required to produce all records in unredacted form described below:

1. All communications referring or relating to Operation Fast and Furious, the Jacob Chambers case, or any Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) firearms trafficking case based in Phoenix, Arizona, to or from the following individuals:

a. Eric Holder Jr., Attorney General;

b. David Ogden, Former Deputy Attorney General;

c. Gary Grindler, Office of the Attorney General and former Acting Deputy Attorney General;

d. James Cole, Deputy Attorney General;

e. Lanny Breuer, Assistant Attorney General;

f. Ronald Weich, Assistant Attorney General;

g. Kenneth Blanco, Deputy Assistant Attorney General;

h. Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General;

i. John Keeney, Deputy Assistant Attorney General;

j. Bruce Swartz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General;

k. Matt Axelrod, Associate Deputy Attorney General;

l. Ed Siskel, former Associate Deputy Attorney General;

m. Brad Smith, Office of the Deputy Attorney General;

n. Kevin Carwile, Section Chief, Capital Case Unit, Criminal Division;

o. Joseph Cooley, Criminal Fraud Section, Criminal Division; and,

p. James Trusty, Acting Chief, Organized Crime and Gang Section.

2. All communications between and among Department of Justice (DOJ) employees and Executive Office of the President employees, including but not limited to Associate Communications Director Eric Schultz, referring or relating to Operation Fast and Furious or any other firearms trafficking cases.

3. All communications between DOJ employees and Executive Office of the President employees referring or relating to the President's March 22, 2011 interview with Jorge Ramos of Univision. (Emphasis supplied, MBV.)

4. All documents and communications referring or relating to any instances prior to February 4, 2011 where the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) failed to interdict weapons that had been illegally purchased or transferred.

5. All documents and communications referring or relating to any instances prior to February 4, 2011 where ATF broke off surveillance of weapons and subsequently became aware that those weapons entered Mexico.

6. All documents and communications referring or relating to the murder of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata, including but not limited to documents and communications regarding Zapata's mission when he was murdered, Form for Reporting Information That May Become Testimony (FD-302), photographs of the crime scene, and investigative reports prepared by the FBI.

7. All communications to or from William Newell, former Special Agent-in-Charge for ATF's Phoenix Field Division, between:

a. December 14, 2010 to January 25, 2011; and,

b. March 16, 2009 to March 19, 2009.

8. All Reports of Investigation (ROIs) related to Operation Fast and Furious or ATF Case Number 785115-10-0004.

9. All communications between and among Matt Axelrod, Kenneth Melson, and William Hoover referring or relating to ROIs identified pursuant to Paragraph 7.

10. All documents and communications between and among former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., former Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein referring or relating to Operation Fast and Furious or any OCDETF case originating in Arizona.

11. All communications sent or received between:

a. December 16, 2009 and December 18, 2009, and;

b. March 9, 2011 and March 14, 2011, to or from the following individuals:

+ Emory Hurley, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona; + Michael Morrissey, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona; + Patrick Cunningham, Chief, Criminal Division, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona; + David Voth, Group Supervisor, ATF; and, + Hope MacAllister, Special Agent, ATF.

12. All communications sent or received between December 15, 2010 and December 17, 2010 to or from the following individuals in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona:

a. Dennis Burke, former United States Attorney;

b. Emory Hurley, Assistant United States Attorney;

c. Michael Morrissey, Assistant United States Attorney; and,

d. Patrick Cunningham, Chief of the Criminal Division.

13. All communications sent or received between August 7, 2009 and March 19, 2011 between and among former Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual; Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer; and, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bruce Swartz.

14. All communications sent or received between August 7, 2009 and March 19, 2011 between and among former Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual and any Department of Justice employee based in Mexico City referring or relating to firearms trafficking initiatives, Operation Fast and Furious or any firearms trafficking case based in Arizona, or any visits by Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer to Mexico.

15. Any FD-302 relating to targets, suspects, defendants, or their associates, bosses, or financiers in the Fast and Furious investigation, including but not limited to any FD-302s ATF Special Agent Hope MacAllister provided to ATF leadership during the calendar year 2011.

16. Any investigative reports prepared by the FBI or Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) referring or relating to targets, suspects, or defendants in the Fast and Furious case.

17. Any investigative reports prepared by the FBI or DEA relating to the individuals described to Committee staff at the October 5, 2011 briefing at Justice Department headquarters as Target Number 1 and Target Number 2.

18. All documents and communications in the possession, custody or control of the DEA referring or relating to Manuel Fabian Celis-Acosta.

19. All documents and communications between and among FBI employees in Arizona and the FBI Laboratory, including but not limited to employees in the Firearms/Toolmark Unit, referring or relating to the firearms recovered during the course of the investigation of Brian Terry's death.

20. All agendas, meeting notes, meeting minutes, and follow-up reports for the Attorney General's Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys between March 1, 2009 and July 31, 2011, referring or relating to Operation Fast and Furious.

21. All weekly reports and memoranda for the Attorney General, either directly or through the Deputy Attorney General, from any employee in the Criminal Division, ATF, DEA, FBI, or the National Drug Intelligence Center created between November 1, 2009 and September 30, 2011.

22. All surveillance tapes recorded by pole cameras inside the Lone Wolf Trading Co. store between 12:00 a.m. on October 3, 2010 and 12:00 a.m. on October 7, 2010.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; castaway; cia; clinton; dea; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; hillary; hillaryclinton; holder; ice; issa; obama; statedept
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To: patriot08

And watch your back, do not eat anything whose origin is not reliable, do not fly in a small plane, and always keep your magnum loaded and handy.


21 posted on 10/13/2011 1:21:42 AM PDT by federal__reserve (Economy on life support needs a revolutionary tax plan, not fiddle around the edges!)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Love to see 'em sweat bullets, if nothing else.

If they were sweating bullets they would try to find a way to funnel them to Mexico or a drug cartel.

22 posted on 10/13/2011 2:02:17 AM PDT by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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To: federal__reserve; patriot08
And watch your back, do not eat anything whose origin is not reliable, do not fly in a small plane, and always keep your magnum loaded and handy.

You left out the part about not walking into Fort Marcy park

23 posted on 10/13/2011 2:06:19 AM PDT by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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To: Lmo56
BTW, Obama - “executive privilege” ain’t gonna fly. Just ask Nixon [he lost at the Supreme Court] ...

I wonder if Lacovara is still practicing....

24 posted on 10/13/2011 2:09:44 AM PDT by Roccus (Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
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To: Watchdog85

Issa’s doing his bit to spur job growth, too. DoJ will have to hire a bunch of people to scan all these records.


25 posted on 10/13/2011 2:16:16 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: PLMerite
I would love to know what Issa already knows. Some of those document requests for all communications are very specific short time frames, especially the 3 day one in March 2009. Do you think Issa has copies of something that Holder may try to cover up? If I was holder, I would be very nervous about holding back anything lest it look like Nixon's missing tape.
26 posted on 10/13/2011 2:26:53 AM PDT by Woodman
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To: Watchdog85

27 posted on 10/13/2011 2:32:08 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Mr. Mojo

And Hussein is nervously maintaining neither he nor Holder had any knowledge of the operation.

How insane is that!

If this is true, and it’s not, they should be removed from office and in prison, just the same as if they have full knowledge.

Let’s hope someone puts a stop to these traitors before they accomplish race riots/civil war starting next spring and through the summer. We may find out where these weapons really ended up soon.


28 posted on 10/13/2011 4:01:31 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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To: Woodman

Issa spent a great deal of time setting up this case. He successfully blocked the back doors and the exits. He already knows what is in those documents. I smell toast burning....


29 posted on 10/13/2011 4:29:44 AM PDT by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Just because they sent and recieved e-mail doesn’t mean they read or even understood what was in them. Remember the Americans are Cowards according to Eric Holder. And some still cling to their Guns and their Religion ,according to Der 0.


30 posted on 10/13/2011 4:31:24 AM PDT by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: FrankR

Greatness!


31 posted on 10/13/2011 4:37:20 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Not entirely on their own.... Senators like Bennett in Colorado continue to hold their water. Senators like Bennett and Udall of Colorado continue to defend their Administration by sending FYVM replies to their constituents who dare remind them this is the most criminal Administration in my lifetime.
Nobody died as result of WATERGATE! Only Republicans were punished for Watergate -but No international incidents were caused by those led by G.Gordon Liddy,who served Nixon. Can anyone honestly say any of this current mess was done to help the President get reelected-was any of it really sneak and peak.


32 posted on 10/13/2011 4:38:09 AM PDT by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: Woodman
“...especially the 3 day one in March 2009.”

___________________________________________________________________________

If you are referring to communications “...from March 16, 2009 to March 19, 2009” as mentioned in line 7.b, it might be interesting to note that THIS was published with a March 18, 2009 dateline in USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-03-18-cartelguns_N.htm

33 posted on 10/13/2011 4:56:40 AM PDT by Roccus (Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
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To: MestaMachine

PING to my #33


34 posted on 10/13/2011 5:02:17 AM PDT by Roccus (Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
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To: MestaMachine

Democrats, like Nazis, know you can get away with many nefarious fascist acts with a propaganda “media” working for you.


35 posted on 10/13/2011 5:03:08 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: MestaMachine

Democrats, like Nazis, know you can get away with many nefarious fascist acts with a propaganda “media” working for you.


36 posted on 10/13/2011 5:03:23 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: FrankR

Frangi, I’ll be “borrowing” this one. Great


37 posted on 10/13/2011 5:52:26 AM PDT by USS Alaska
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To: Watchdog85; All

Wag The Dog coming up in oh, about... right after New Years.


38 posted on 10/13/2011 6:00:54 AM PDT by OKSooner ("Get a brain, morans!!")
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To: Watchdog85

If the admin claims Executive Privelege for any of those documents it will be a clear indication of Obama’s involvement.

It’s a lose-lose for the admin!!!


39 posted on 10/13/2011 8:40:21 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Lazlo in PA; hiredhand; Gilbo_3; Squantos; stephenjohnbanker; sickoflibs; Impy

I want to see him get burned and burned but good as well, brother; but the reality is, Holder is the Top Cop, and he’s got the president providing cover for him.

WHO is going to do WHAT to this guy, and HOW, is the question.

There’s already a mountain of evidence that would have sent you, me, or anyone else to jail for the rest of our lives.

My question, again, from another thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2790845/posts?page=69#69

Who polices the Top Cop and his assh*le boss? Or more to the point - who on our side has the balls to do what they’re sworn to do?


40 posted on 10/13/2011 8:50:15 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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