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House Republicans to Request Special Counsel to Probe Holder on 'Fast and Furious'
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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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To: Responsibility2nd
You’ve definitely got me all wrong, unless it is on purpose.
“So - you dont 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.
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posted on
10/04/2011 11:44:21 AM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: Hotlanta Mike
Post of the day ~!!!!!!!
Walpin ! YES ! He’d be more than perfect for this job ~
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posted on
10/04/2011 11:45:52 AM PDT
by
simplesimon
(Thomas Paine is weeping. Common sense is gone.)
To: SeaHawkFan
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posted on
10/04/2011 11:45:53 AM PDT
by
uncbob
To: treetopsandroofs
I an afraid you are right
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posted on
10/04/2011 11:48:14 AM PDT
by
uncbob
To: uncbob
IT’S FITZMASTIME IT’S FITZMASTIME!!!!!
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posted on
10/04/2011 11:49:25 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Sarahcuda in 2012. Nothing but Net!!!)
To: Slambat
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.
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posted on
10/04/2011 11:54:41 AM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Nuts; A house divided against itself cannot stand.)
To: immadashell
If it is a rogue, not only should the rogue be fired but also the person who hired the rogue. What are the internal policies? Who is responsible for compliance? 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.
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posted on
10/04/2011 12:04:11 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Nuts; A house divided against itself cannot stand.)
To: anton
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.”
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posted on
10/04/2011 12:07:34 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Nuts; A house divided against itself cannot stand.)
To: sam_paine
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posted on
10/04/2011 12:10:47 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Nuts; A house divided against itself cannot stand.)
To: sunmars
- ACORN traffics in underage foreign prostitutes and 0bama cuts out $7 billion dollars of Stimulus cash for ACORN.
- ATF traffics in full-auto weapons to Mexican drug cartels and 0bama's AG doesn't know a thing.
- The CIA traffics in shoulder-fired rockets and other high-powered weapons to a Mexican drug cartel and the SecState knows nothing.
- The DOJ is cutting deals with Mexican drug cartels.
We've got a narco-human slave-arms trafficking Milosevic in the WH.
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posted on
10/04/2011 12:13:58 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: b4its2late
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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posted on
10/04/2011 12:14:10 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Nuts; A house divided against itself cannot stand.)
To: sam_paine
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posted on
10/04/2011 12:16:01 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
To: All
By golly! Drudge finally found room on his page for this story. Not headline-worthy though it seems.
The Drudge Report
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posted on
10/04/2011 12:18:00 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: sunmars
First of all, this is great news! Could be both hugh and series!
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”?
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10/04/2011 12:19:46 PM PDT
by
NEMDF
To: ichabod1
Of course its too late to get ALL the evidence. The good news is that its rarely possible to DESTROY all of it, what with the ability to read computer hard drives long after theyve 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...
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posted on
10/04/2011 12:22:04 PM PDT
by
simplesimon
(Thomas Paine is weeping. Common sense is gone.)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Finally! 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
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posted on
10/04/2011 12:45:42 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: b4its2late
Everything is on computers and even erased hard drives can be resurrected.
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posted on
10/04/2011 12:53:34 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
To: simplesimon
Especially after they tried to portray him as incoherent and out of sorts due to his age...
To: cblue55
While I applaud Issa’s efforts, has he ever gotten anywhere in his endeavors?
To: sam_paine
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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posted on
10/04/2011 1:18:07 PM PDT
by
rod1
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