Posted on 06/20/2012 8:48:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Rep. Darrell Issa said Wednesday that he is pressing ahead with a committee vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, despite an 11th-hour move by President Obama to exert executive privilege over the Fast and Furious documents at the heart of the dispute.
The announcement immediately touched off a caustic debate on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, as Democrats accused Issa of prosecuting a "political witch hunt" and Republicans stepped up their criticism of Holder's "stonewalling" over the Fast and Furious probe. Even for Washington, the tone at the hearing was decidedly bitter and accusatory.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was first informed of the president's decision to exert executive privilege in a letter Wednesday morning, shortly before the contempt vote was scheduled.
Issa said committee staff are evaluating the letter but described the move as too little, too late as he and other GOP lawmakers questioned the basis for the assertion.
"This untimely assertion by the Justice Department falls short of any reason to delay today's proceedings," Issa said.
Issa accused the Justice Department of trying to compel the committee to close its investigation in exchange for documents it hasn't yet seen. "I can't accept that deal. No other committee chairman would," he said.
But Issa's Democratic counterpart, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., fired back that Holder never made such a demand -- a Justice official also refuted Issa's claim -- and said the attorney general had come to the committee in "good faith" to try and work out an agreement.
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One article is all that is needed to refute the "river of guns" propaganda.
These Marxists don't use moral relativism for nothing.
It’s coming to the point, Mesta.
Seat belts on, tray tables secured and seat in an upright position!
thanks to the great posters whose threads I simply pinged.
Thank you, both. Much appreciated. But are we now, or have we ever been, looking for the literally SMOKING guns that killed two Americans? No matter how it’s sliced, F&F guns were at the scene of both crimes, and it’s purely moot whether or not Terry & Zapata were killed by one or more bullets coming from one of a group of guns engaged in the two murder. The F&F guns are no more separable from the crime, no less implicated in the crime, than the so-called human beings who pulled the triggers but missed their targets..
You are right that's not really the issue. It is about facilitating these crimes and criminals not the exact gun that finally fired any killing shot.
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