Posted on 05/17/2018 6:47:04 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to provide congressional investigators confidential records on a failed gun-trafficking operation during the Obama administration known as "Fast and Furious" that long has been criticized by Republican lawmakers.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department would hand over documents to the Republican-led House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that had been withheld by Democratic former President Barack Obama's administration.
The agreement reached by Republican President Donald Trump's administration will effectively end a six-year long legal battle in which the committee had gone to federal court to try to enforce a subpoena it had issued to obtain the records.
Congressional Republicans have been pressing the Justice Department for years about the operation. Named after a movie about car racing, the operation sought to curb gun-trafficking criminals who were selling weapons to Mexican drug cartels.
In June 2012, the Republican-led House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder, an Obama appointee, in contempt for failing to turn over documents about the operation. The committee sued Holder for access to the documents in August 2012. Obama asserted executive privilege to block the disclosure of the documents.
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Guns for Animals?
Another campaign promise being fulfilled. GO TRUMP GO
Maybe Rudy hasn’t been on top of his game lately, but he certainly knows where the bodies are buried. Literally. And he’s pretty fearless.
Hi.
Does anyone remember that shortly after 0bama was sworn in, the first news conference he held was with Hillary (SOS), and Holder regarding the weapons going to cartels, and they were going to stop it?
They blamed all the guns in America for the problem.
An attempt on the 2nd Amendment it was.
5.56mm
There may be a statute of limitations problem here. Evade the truth long enough, like Hellary and others who should be in prison do, and it’s suddenly no problem and just an annoyance.
I love your reading of prehistory.
Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten all about that.
Fast and Furious was clearly nothing more than an effort to demonize American guns. That it failed in its fundamental purpose is not enough. Those responsible should have been held accountable. Thanks to Horowitz, they weren’t.
“Holder needs to find himself at the end of a rope over F&F. “
American citizens DIED because of this....
“In a statement issued on Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department would hand over documents to the Republican-led House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that had been withheld by Democratic former President Barack Obama’s administration.”
Oh how gracious of the Observer General to take a moment while he is busy auditing the job. Of course the documents will be so heavily redacted “for national security” that they will be meaningless. We wouldn’t want anyone to get in trouble would we? (Not that the General would prosecute.)
One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks came from Phoenix, Arizona where the Obama administration allowed criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally in a deadly and futile “gun-walking” operation known as “Fast and Furious.”
One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks came from Phoenix, Arizona where the Obama administration allowed criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally in a deadly and futile “gun-walking” operation known as “Fast and Furious.”
“That was not what the intention was. It was intended to be used as a tool to go after the 2nd Amendment. “
And her royal thighness was in it too up to her elliptical pupils.
“Holder needs to find himself at the end of a rope over F&F. Soon.”
Doing the Tyburn jig.
“Whatever....
The time clock expired for indictments. ..”
We could get Reichs Kanzler Herr Mueller to waive the statute of limitations like he did to Manafort.
Yes, Hillary was.
"An iron river of guns"...ATF and soon after, Hillary Clinton.
S/B
“An iron river of guns flowing into Mexico”
So Obama’s guns went to terrorists as well as our money.
The Arkincide list...
Wouldn’t That be interesting.
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