"Gunwalking" subpoena for AG Holder imminent
CBS News has learned a congressional subpoena directed to Attorney General Eric Holder could go out as early as Tuesday, ordering him to turn over documents to lawmakers about when he was aware of a controversial gun smuggling operation known as Fast and Furious.
CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports the the subpoena will come from the House Oversight Committee, led by Republican Darrell Issa. It will ask for communications among senior Justice Department officials related to Fast and Furious and "gunwalking."
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The subpoena will list those officials, says Attkisson - more than a dozen of them - by name.
In Fast and Furious, the ATF allegedly allowed thousands of assault rifles and other weapons into the hands of suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels. The idea was to see where the weapons ended up, and take down a cartel. But the guns have been found at many crime scenes in Mexico and the U.S., including the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last December.
A source familiar with the Oversight Committee's plans tells CBS News the subpoena request was prompted by the Justice Department dragging its feet in voluntarily turning over information to investigators, and new documents obtained by CBS News last week which seem to contradict Holder's account of when he learned of the operation.
More questions were raised by the documents reported on last week, which indicate senior officials at the Justice Department knew at least something of Fast and Furious, and memos were sent directly to the Attorney General as long as ten months before he told Congress he first heard of the case. (Watch a full report on the memos at left)
Holder sent a letter to Congress late Friday that said he never read those memos mentioning Fast and Furious, that those are read by others who decide whether to tell him and they didn't. And he says even those who knew of Fast and Furious, including his current Chief of Staff, didn't know about the controversial tactic of "letting guns walk" into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
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This is the ugliest expression of Democratic Party leadership I could have imagined. They have taken our very best impulses -- like our aims for racial equality and generous sharing of wealth -- and have used it against us to grasp more power, the nation be damned.
The Worst Administration in our lifetimes and their "we're-so-smart" battalions slander all who dare probe, like Rep. Issa. They are vicious to reporters who might dis-Obey the Code of Speak-No-Evil about the Big Corporate-Government Machine, fronted by Pelosi, Obama and Reid (while trucks loaded up with cash come and go out back).
But the truth, wherever it leads, must out. And there is so much more, in every hallway and backroom of their enslaving Citadel.
I want my country and my Democratic Party back.
Godspeed.
Then when we swap party A for party B (who poses as an opposing party, but is one and the same) this all will be forgotten. Those who trampled the Constitution will get a multimillion tell-all book deal and become a handsomely paid "adviser" to one of the fake US news networks. This how the controlled US media covers their corrupt government plants known as politicians. BTW, the low level whistle blower gets fired as a lessen to all...end of story. Get back to me in two years and let me know how this goes down.
The plan was suppose to be under the radar as Obama stated,
bought & paid for with funds in the stimulus. Schumer, Clinton, Obama, Holder & the like pushed the untruth that the majority of weapons that were killing people in Mexico were coming from the US. They had to put the weapons in their hands to make it so... and that is exactly what they did. When the number of bodies started showing up crime scenes from these weapons is when they would finally have the proof they needed. These slicksters caused all of this tragedy for one reason only, to infringe on your rights to bare arms. They ran all 3 houses, and never in their arrogant minds did they ever think they would be caught! I am greatful for all the whistleblowers who risked their jobs and their lives to tell the American people the truth. They are the ones who deserve promotions and the others involved need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. What a despicable act to have no regard for anyones life on either side of the border... just to push an ideology!
You lie Bush did not institute this program he had one that was LEGAL and the guns never disappeared and never went to the DRUG Cartel in Mexico. YOU LIE!
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This program was called Operation Wide Receiver under the Bush Administration --- Google it yourself and see...
More troubling are the facts daily surfacing. Those emerging facts show the perpetrators were comfortable to commit felonies of an unknown scale without even a second thought. They felt comfortable knowing they were "safe". I urge each of you to daily chronicle the events and your thoughts to save for posterity so that your descendants can read the real events as they unfolded and know the real history. Without that, 50 years from now they will be saddled with revisionist history of some liberal historian. You are now living and witnessing the unearthing of the greatest government conspiracy in human history.
it's a start to clear up this matter,
"au revoir"