GOP Senator: White House Claims About Document Hand-Over Are 'Hogwash'

The Hil ^ | June 21, 2012 | Jordy Yager

[lbryce]

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said comments made by the White House claiming the administration has given Congress every document related to Fast and Furious are “hogwash.”

Grassley’s remarks come as two more senators on Thursday joined the ranks calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign over his handling of the botched gun-tracking operation and refusal to give Congress related documents, which spurred a House panel to vote this week to hold the nation’s top cop in contempt of Congress.

White House spokesman Jay Carney on Thursday vehemently defended President Obama’s decision to assert executive privilege over the documents and said the administration has given Congress everything related to Fast and Furious.

“Every document related to the Fast and Furious operation has long since been provided to congressional investigators,” said Carney to reporters.

“Every piece of documentation that relates to the operation itself, if the interest here is in the operation, how it came about, its origination, how it was approved, why such a flawed tactic was employed, that has been provided to congressional investigators.”

But Grassley, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee and the lawmaker who launched Congress’s probe of Fast and Furious, said that simply wasn’t true.

“His statement that the administration has ‘provided Congress every document that pertains to the operation itself’ is hogwash,” said Grassley.

“Through my investigation, I know there are reams of documents related to ‘the operation itself’ that the Justice Department has refused to turn over to Congress."

The furor between the White House and Capitol Hill Republicans continued to rise in the upper chamber on Thursday as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a leading frontrunner for the GOP vice presidential ticket, and Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) both called for Holder’s resignation.

[Lurker]

“Every document related to the Fast and Furious operation has long since been provided to congressional investigators,” said Carney to reporters.

Then why the EP claim, Jay?

[RummyChick]

http://lockerz.com/s/96540937

How does a reporter get a birth certificate with HUWAII listed on it???

As someone on the other thread pointed out..there is a HUWAI near East Timor in the Indonesia area.

[moovova]

We can always hope.

[Travis McGee]

MURDERGATE

To the half of America that half pays attention to the news, "Fast and Furious" is still a B-rated action movie. This scandal will gain much more traction if we shift the meme over to MURDERGATE. When liberals whine and ask why we call it Murdergate, just say, "Because nobody was murdered at the Watergate."

[RummyChick]

For those of you that are pilots..you probably know that Drug dealers usually remark their Aircrafts. Here is the plane that flew into Guantanamo more than once. Dated 2005


Aug 2007


Here is the plane that crashed with over 6000 pounds of Sinaloa cocaine in Sept 2007. Not re-marked



Pure uncut cocaine is worth how much ????????? That plane had over 200 million dollars worth of cocaine on it.

[Carry_Okie]

My opinion is that the drug trade represents one of two massive pools of reserve currency that allow the Fed to keep printing without a response from the CPI. The other is oil.

Consider that when Saddam Hussein announced that he was shifting to the Euro, we went to war in Iraq. There was no other specific event (such as direct involvement in 9-11) that suddenly justified that particular action. Although Saddam was producing (particularly biological) WMD, the timing just does not fly.

[zerosix]

“GOP Senator: White House Claims About Document Hand-Over Are ‘Hogwash’,” and Sen. Grassley knows a thing or two about HOG-wash!

[Doogle]

not mine