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Darrell Issa Demands Answers from Eric Holder on 'Operation Choke Point' Bank Shakedown
Breitbart Big Government ^ | 1/9/14 | Michael Patrick Leahy

Posted on 01/09/2014 6:09:42 PM PST by Nachum

Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the Economic Growth Subcommittee, sent a harsh letter to Attorney General Holder Wednesday accusing the Department of Justice of abusing its power and intimidating banks through its "Operation Choke Point." In the letter, Issa and Jordan stated, "[t]he [House Oversight and Government Reform] Committee is concerned that both the goal and mechanisms of Operation Choke Point may constitute a serious mismanagement and abuse of the Department´s FIRREA [Financial Institution Reform and Recovery Act of 1989] authority." Breitbart News broke the

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: banking; bankshakedown; california; choke; darrellissa; deadenddarrell; doj; extortion; holder; holderbanks; holdershakedown; holderspeople; issa; jimjordan; knockoutgame; ohio; operation; operationchokepoint; shakedown
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1 posted on 01/09/2014 6:09:42 PM PST by Nachum
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2 posted on 01/09/2014 6:10:14 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

Holder is above the law, he can pretty much do what he wants with impunity.


3 posted on 01/09/2014 6:14:44 PM PST by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Nachum

Lately, Issa “demanding” is kinda like the First Moose “demanding” that Oprah give her free reign at the Maui plantationhouse


4 posted on 01/09/2014 6:15:07 PM PST by MagUSNRET
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To: Nachum

Kingfish doesn’t answer to y’all and the highness’s media has their fingers in their ears.


5 posted on 01/09/2014 6:15:48 PM PST by Blogatron (http://www.newnation.org/NNN-Black-on-White.html)
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To: Nachum

This is how the democrats caused the housing melt down too

The passed a law saying that banks had to loan to people who could not afford it.

The banks are not stupid so they ignored it.

So Andrew Cuomo, as Bill CLinton’s attorney general sued the first bank he could for ‘discrimination’ and WON what was the biggest settlement in history- $12billion dollars.

So... the other banks fell in line

They had a choice to get sued and lose billions or loan money that was guaranteed by the government, to people who could not afford it.

Then every criminal in the country was selling houses back and forth to each other inflating the prices until someone was left holding the bag, and the government ended bailing them out anyway.

For $500 billion dollars, wasn’t it? then a few $TRILLION more in ‘stimulous’ (where was all that money spent?)


6 posted on 01/09/2014 6:20:14 PM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Nachum

And be warned Holder if you don’t come clean we’ll send you another letter!


7 posted on 01/09/2014 6:21:59 PM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: Bullish
And be warned Holder if you don’t come clean we’ll send you another letter!

Not just another letter, a very very sternly written letter!

8 posted on 01/09/2014 6:24:10 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Nachum
...sent a harsh letter...

Say it ain't so!!! Not a harsh letter! Oh please, Gosh, no! Please don't let it be sternly worded....

9 posted on 01/09/2014 6:24:19 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Nachum

I wish Issa would stay with one or two investigations and actually finish them.


10 posted on 01/09/2014 6:24:21 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: Mastador1

You cad!!!


11 posted on 01/09/2014 6:25:02 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Mastador1; Bullish

lol...


12 posted on 01/09/2014 6:28:07 PM PST by TomServo
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To: Nachum
Breitbart News broke the

wind...

13 posted on 01/09/2014 6:29:12 PM PST by TomServo
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To: Red_Devil 232
I wish Issa would stay with one or two investigations and actually finish them.

He's documenting the excesses of Holder and the Obama administration in a public forum. There's little chance the House can do anything about it now, the Senate won't go along. So he does what he can. Frankly any conservative derision towards Issa is only carrying water for Holder and Obama.

14 posted on 01/09/2014 6:34:36 PM PST by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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15 posted on 01/09/2014 6:35:19 PM PST by RedMDer (Happy with this, America? Make your voices heard. 2014 is just around the corner. ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: Nachum

The Brothers need a retirement fund


16 posted on 01/09/2014 6:40:33 PM PST by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: Nachum; RitaOK; All

To Issa, the idiot:
* Bolsheviks shut down banks.
* Obama and Holder are Bolsheviks.
* Obama and Holder will work to shut down banks. DUH!


17 posted on 01/09/2014 6:50:04 PM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: MagUSNRET

It’s always been that way, Issa has always been totally ineffective. He should have camped out in the Benghazi hearing room 24/7 - just one example where he’s all hat and no cattle.


18 posted on 01/09/2014 6:50:55 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: no-s

Well stated.


19 posted on 01/09/2014 6:57:34 PM PST by livius
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To: bigbob

An “investigation” by Issa is the kiss of death. Guaranteed to go nowhere.


20 posted on 01/09/2014 7:19:34 PM PST by SpaceBar
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