Posted on 12/07/2011 9:14:48 PM PST by Nachum
On Thursday morning, Attorney General Eric Holder will appear before the House Judiciary Committee and he’s set to get grilled over Operation Fast and Furious.
Fast and Furious was a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives program overseen by the Justice Department. The operation facilitated the sale of thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels via straw purchasers. Straw purchasers are people who legally purchase guns in the United States with the known intention of illegally trafficking them into Mexico.
At least 300 people in Mexico were killed with Fast and Furious weapons, as was U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
Holder first testified about Fast and Furious before the House Judiciary Committee on May 3, and then testified about it before the Senate Judiciary Committee on November 8. This is Holder’s third major appearance before a congressional hearing on the operation, and second before the House, which Republicans control.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Does anyone know what time Holder comes on?
Never mind, I see thouworm already posted it. Thanks, TW.
Comcast Cable channel 105 Charleston SC
Perry is on C SPAN 3 did I miss it?
I found a direct link but I don’t see Holder.Did we miss it?
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_12082011.html
Chairman announced they have to adjourn to vote. They will take NO lunch recess and will reconvene when the voting is finished (expected to be about 20 min). Hearing will end at 1:15pm.
Go to the menu on the right side ofthe vid that is playing and you should see the Issa hearing link.
How many more innocent will die while the enabling
Committee adjourns?
The entire Congress enables this daily.
Lies, lies, and more lies. He has nothing else.
The wheels of justice grind slowly...or, sometimes, not at all.
It was just a break, Perry was pretty impressive. I only caught the questions and answers. He does better in this type of format.
Nasty old republicans picking on our beloved AG. How dare they! He is pure and clean, doncha kno?
You're not alone in your anger. It's an outrage...
from this morning:
GOP questions ‘two-month gap’ in Kagan’s health care involvement
...Mr. Holder also again declined to cite a specific legal privilege that would allow him to withhold documents or prevent committee investigators from interviewing department employees about Justice Kagan’s involvement. Instead, the attorney general said he has “separation of powers” concerns.
...Mr. Smith said that doesn’t rise to the level of an actual claim of privilege, and said he will schedule the interviews with investigators.
Thanks I just tuned in watching at your link and Sheila Jackson Lee was talking what did she say?
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Atty-Gen-Holder-on-Operation-Fast-and-Furious/10737426112-1/
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