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June 19, 2012 MEDIA MISREPORTING BOEHNER'S FAST & FURIOUS STANCE Mary Chastain Once again the media is reporting supposed facts about Speaker John Boehner without actually confirming them. This time Fox News’s William La Jeunesse states Speaker Boehner is putting pressure on Chairman Darrell Issa to drop contempt charges against Attorney General Eric Holder in relation to the ongoing investigation of Operation Fast and Furious.  This is not true. Speaker Boehner’s spokesman Michael Steel confirmed it for me once again.“The Speaker supports Chairman Issa’s efforts to hold the Department of Justice accountable,” Mr. Steel wrote in an email.Over and over...

A gun-rights advocate says it will probably take the election of a new president to hold Attorney General Eric Holder accountable for his responsibility in the "Fast and Furious" gun-running scandal. During Capitol Hill hearings on Thursday, Holder frustrated Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee who wanted to know what he knew in advance of public disclosure of the gun-running tactic in early 2011. But during questioning, Holder mostly answered with "I don't know." As part of the ill-fated operation, the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) intentionally put guns into the hands of drug cartel members....