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Fast and Furious Update: Rep. Issa Tells Holder to Expect More Hearings
Big Government ^ | 12/20/11 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 12/20/2011 10:22:54 AM PST by Nachum

Late yesterday, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa’s office sent me an email with a copy of a letter the Congressman had sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on December 15 — a letter to which the A.G. has yet to respond. In it, Issa informs Holder that the Committee would like him to appear for more testimony on January 24, 2012.

In other words, Fast and Furious isn’t going away any time soon.

Issa wrote:

The hearing will examine flaws in the management structure of the Justice Department as demonstrated in the genesis and implementation of ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious. Specifically, the hearing will focus on what senior Department officials could and should have done to put a stop to this reckless program, as well as the specific areas where failures in communication and management occurred.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; dea; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; hearings; holder; issa; obama
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To: Nachum
Darrell Issa’s office sent me an email with a copy of a letter

OH NOES, not the Angry Letter! How severe is that??

21 posted on 12/20/2011 11:58:54 AM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: CodeToad

I have another theory about this. I think Issa has a lot more than anyone knows but he’s waiting until it gets closer to the election to drop the hammer. Less time for Obama to react. Can we say “October Surprise”?


22 posted on 12/20/2011 12:09:04 PM PST by technically right
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To: Nachum

Oh, bull; he, just like SlickWillie, will let them talk themselves into a state of mastubatory multi-orgasm. These creeps are all teflon coated. This ‘big bad hearing’ will be lost in obscurity, and the whole damned bunch will skate into obscurity while Joe Arpaio goes into the fire for covering the collective Southwestern U.S. a$$. Anyone caught voting for a Democrat candidate for anything should be deported. LayLowO CANNOT be re-elected, at any cost.


23 posted on 12/20/2011 12:15:49 PM PST by arrdon
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To: technically right

These type of information attacks rarely do much good. The ONLY thing that does good is an arrest or impeachment.


24 posted on 12/20/2011 12:20:40 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Nachum

Holder: “They’re pickin’ on me ‘cause I’m black”


25 posted on 12/20/2011 12:28:36 PM PST by BO Stinkss
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To: mylife

No reasonable person ever said it had anything to do with race. But Eric Holder has said the only reason anybody is attacking him or Obama is because they hate black men.


26 posted on 12/20/2011 1:52:12 PM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: sam_paine
Bingo! Way to nail the hand-wringers. If it weren't for Issa and Grassley we wouldn't know 99% of what we now know about F&F. There isn't much doubt that what they have released so far is just the tip of the iceberg re what they have too.

Here is something that was just leaked to the public domain that cinches up the noose quite a bit.

Interesting new ATF internal document generated the day before the 4 February "withdrawn" (lying)

Several people are painted into corners from which there is no escape other than full disclosure for immunity.

27 posted on 12/20/2011 1:58:54 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Nachum
Issa informs Holder that the Committee would like him to appear for more testimony on January 24, 2012

Will CSPAN carry the hearings?

28 posted on 12/20/2011 2:49:33 PM PST by EllenMarie (God bless Vietnam Heroes!)
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To: Nachum

Issa needs to confine the questioning to only F&F concerns otherwise all the Dems on the committee will use their time to change the subject and praise Holder.


29 posted on 12/20/2011 3:08:05 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Nachum


30 posted on 12/20/2011 3:35:47 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Nachum

Even if they shined a searchlight up Holder’s ass, they will never find a brain, a conscience, or brotherly-love.

THey might find a copy of the Black Reparationist’s manual, the teaching of James Cone and Charles Ogltree, Das Kapital, and the selected quotes of Louis Farrakhan.


31 posted on 12/20/2011 4:29:15 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: technically right

Issa is doing a “Death by a thousand cuts” on Holder, Brauer, and eventually Obama. He can stretch the hearings out for months, or even years, each time revealing more about the Fast & Furious fiasco, plus collateral operations and screw-ups.

This keeps the spotlight on Holder, DOJ, Obama, ICE, ATF, etc.

Any major expose’ at the time of the Democratic Convention would be a kick in the balls of Obama and the Demonrats.

Timing is everything.


32 posted on 12/20/2011 4:34:31 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Nachum

We need many more with Issa’s determination and spirit!


33 posted on 12/20/2011 5:51:03 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: sam_paine

THANK YOU!!!!!


34 posted on 12/20/2011 5:52:55 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: MestaMachine

bttt


35 posted on 12/20/2011 5:57:14 PM PST by GOPJ (Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred - Proverbs 15)
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To: technically right

You are correct.

Except....... August Surprise, September surprise October surprise.

The real bombs will explode after the Democrat Convention


36 posted on 12/20/2011 5:57:50 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: technically right

You might very well be correct.


37 posted on 12/20/2011 5:59:18 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: Nachum

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/


38 posted on 12/20/2011 7:13:45 PM PST by gaijin
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To: InterceptPoint

>What flaws in the process? Doesn’t Issa get it? F&F went as planned. The only flaw was that they got caught.<

They never expected that ATF agents would go to congress and rat them out. They figured that they could intimidate and control them like they are the FBI agents who have yet to come forward.


39 posted on 12/20/2011 7:15:17 PM PST by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: CodeToad

>No, it is not. Issa is playing for the cameras. He knows nothing will come of this. If there was to be anything there is plenty of evidence already to make charges stick.<

There is enough evidence on Holder yes. But if you have followed really close what has happened. Last week Issa asked him at what level does holder have to sign off on things. Did sending guns across the boarder to another country demand his signature?

He is pushing the international angel now and treaties being broken. He also went after personal e-mails in the last few weeks.

They are trying to get Obama wrapped up in all of this as well showing that he had knowledge and authorized this. THEN they will do something, hopefully with the support of a republican controlled senate and congress.


40 posted on 12/20/2011 7:18:53 PM PST by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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