Posted on 10/04/2011 9:49:20 AM PDT by sunmars
EXCLUSIVE: 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.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/04/house-republicans-to-request-special-counsel-to-probe-holder-on-fast-and/#ixzz1ZpfAxeQ7
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You’ve definitely got me all wrong, unless it is on purpose.
“So - you don’t think we should have prosecuted Clinton. You obviously disagreed with his impeachment.”
Nope, Ken Starr was brought in to screw up the investigation and “absolve” Clinton. The Great Clinton (who among his supporters actually uses that term?) should have been removed.
Post of the day ~!!!!!!!
Walpin ! YES ! He’d be more than perfect for this job ~
Agree
I an afraid you are right
IT’S FITZMASTIME IT’S FITZMASTIME!!!!!
You have to take it step by step. This is pretty big, because I didn’t know if Issa would take it this far. He did, so the next step is the walkin’ dude appointing or refusing. If he refuses, he could be in contempt of Congress, which is not a good place for the imPOTUS to be.
I wish there was ONE CANDIDATe who was about holding people responsible for the crimes that lead to our depression, and those that keep it going and prevent any recovery, but I hear NOTHING from any of them that leads me to believe they have any intention of trying to put this junta in jail.
I don’t care if he or she ever saw a rock with the enword painted on it.
“It’s degrading, demeaning, and dehumilating.” (Former head of Missouri City, TX NAACP on the Perry Rock controversy.”
Fitzmas?
We've got a narco-human slave-arms trafficking Milosevic in the WH.
Of course it’s too late to get ALL the evidence. The good news is that it’s rarely possible to DESTROY all of it, what with the ability to read computer hard drives long after they’ve been reformatted and other forensic tools. Email - u can never seem to get rid of all the emails.
Hmm. Thanks.
Second, I know I am nit-picking here, but (refer to the letter), on the 2nd page, shouldn't he have used the word “discreet” instead of “discrete”?
Of course it’s too late to get ALL the evidence. The good news is that it’s rarely possible to DESTROY all of it, what with the ability to read computer hard drives long after they’ve been reformatted and other forensic tools. Email - u can never seem to get rid of all the emails.
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Had read here on FR last night that Melson gave Issa a flash/thumb drive with *everything* on it, when he testified on July 4th.
I cant remember what thread it was on though. CRS kicks in.
The poster of this information kept calling Melson, Melman or something like that...
Finally, what?
How about Articles of Impeachment against Barack Hussein Obama? Let Harry Reid and his Democrat Senate buddies defend this Communist Traitor.
ML/NJ
Everything is on computers and even erased hard drives can be resurrected.
Especially after they tried to portray him as incoherent and out of sorts due to his age...
Oh..... the same guy who kept Obama, Rahm, Rezko, Valerie, and Baby Jesse out of trouble in the Il. Governor’s senate seat case.
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