Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Fast & Furious Update - Traitor Scorecard



Rep. Issa might not have the votes to push forward Holder contempt charge - TheHill.com.

I'll be posting those committee members who have  forgotten which COMMITTEE they represent.  I'll be fax blasting TRAITOR and TERRORIST to each and everyone for days after the final tally. Left-Right, makes no difference which boot I put up their asses.


The text of the letter is below: http://www.facebook.com/Oversight

June 13, 2012

The Honorable Eric Holder
Attorney General of the United States
Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.  20530-0001

Dear Attorney General Holder:
I write to respond to the Deputy Attorney General letter from Monday , and to comments you made yesterday, expressing a desire to meet.  As our staffs have discussed, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Department of Justice are at an impasse over documents the Department has refused to produce.  Let me be clear – if the Department of Justice submits a serious proposal for how it intends to alter its refusal to produce critical documents subpoenaed by the Committee, I am ready and willing to meet to discuss your proposal.

As you may recall, a May 3, 2012, Committee memo identified three categories of documents necessary for Congress to complete its investigation into Operation Fast and Furious.  On May 18, House leaders and I narrowed this request to two categories: (1)information showing the involvement of senior officials during Operation Fast and Furious, and (2) documents from after February 4, 2011, related to the Department’s response to Congress and whistleblower allegations.  In a June 5, 2012 letter, Deputy Attorney General James Cole described this narrowing as, “a helpful step toward reaching a resolution of the issues in dispute.”  The Department did not, however, indicate a willingness to comply or offer the committee any proposal for altering its objections to providing subpoenaed documents.
As a result of discoveries made by the Committee independent of the Justice Department’s document production, on Monday, June 11, the Committee further narrowed the focus of what the Justice Department needed to produce to avoid contempt.  This further accommodation, made in an effort to resolve this matter short of contempt, focused on the aforementioned relevant materials created after February 4, 2011 –after Operation Fast and Furious ended.  This accommodation by the Committee effectively eliminated the dispute over information gathered during the criminal investigation of Operation Fast and Furious, prior to the announcement of indictments.  Despite this proposed compromise by the Committee, the Department has not indicated a willingness to accept these terms nor has it responded with any offer to alter its objections to providing subpoenaed documents.
The remaining aspects of our dispute concern documents the Department refuses to produce on the grounds that they reflect internal Department deliberations.  I remind you that while courts have found that the President of the United States can exert executive privilege over materials and conversations that play a role in advising the President, Department officials – including the Attorney General – enjoy no such privilege.  Putting this aside for the moment, the Department has already acknowledged that exceptions to protecting internal deliberations can be justified.  The Department made such an exception when it chose to make materials available to Congress, related to the issuance of a false denial of reckless conduct in Operation Fast and Furious. During the previous Administration, the Department made similar materials available to Congress.  These materials also reflected internal deliberations made available in response to a congressional investigation of the firing of several U.S. Attorneys.  If the Department wishes to settle this dispute short of contempt, the Committee has offered it a clear path to do so without the need to disclose sensitive documents created during Operations Fast and Furious.

Many factors in this matter invoke not only a right, but an obligation, for Congress to do all that it can to examine the Department’s mismanagement of its response to Operation Fast and Furious:  the Department’s false February 4 denial of improper conduct;  the fact that an attorney assigned by the Justice Department to investigate whistleblower allegations has since asserted his Fifth Amendment privilege in refusing to speak with congressional investigators; the admission by former Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke that he leaked sensitive information portraying a whistleblower in a distorted and negative light; continued complaints by whistleblowers that they have faced retaliation since blowing the whistle on reckless conduct; allegations by the former Acting Director of the ATF that the Department is managing its response in a way intended to protect its political appointees; and the nine month delay before the Department formally withdrew its false February 4 denial to Congress.
In making repeated accommodations, the Committee has made a good faith effort to allow the Department to meet its obligations to comply with the Committee’s subpoena.  For the Department to argue otherwise without making a serious offer to alter its opposition to producing subpoenaed documents is highly disingenuous.  If the Department is prepared to engage in discussions based upon a stated willingness to drop its opposition to providing material from after February 4, 2011, that may reflect internal deliberations, I ask that you indicate such intention.  If the Department has another proposal for altering its objections to providing subpoenaed materials, I ask that you promptly submit that proposal for consideration as a basis for productive discussions.
Again, I appreciate your effort to resolve this dispute.  I believe the interests of the Department, Congress, and those directly affected by reckless conduct in Operation Fast and Furious are best served by an agreement that renders the process of contempt unnecessary.

Sincerely

Darrell E. Issa
Chairman
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12 comments:

  1. Puddy DunneJune 13, 2012 at 7:38 PM

    I like when the committee eats their own for a change. Now that's change I can believe in. I'll leave the hope for Holder.

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  2. boomerangcomesbackJune 13, 2012 at 11:10 PM

    Let's hope Holder is held accountable for his stone-walling. As in criminally accountable. With a thoroughly corrupted CONgress and administration, "gate-keepers" like Holder (and those slime balls before him) are so patently obvious in their...gate-keeping.

    Fast & Furious -- sounds like a martial arts movie title. It has ended up being a thriller for sure, but a sellout on a whole bunch of administrative and agency levels. Shocking & Putrid, is an apt title when considering the ploy, and how it was to be used to garner more political power and control for the cabal over The People. It reeks of the complete psychopathic unconsciousness regarding murder and collateral damage as a means to achieve a twisted "ends".

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  3. boomerangcomesbackJune 13, 2012 at 11:14 PM

    Sort of stinks like the problem "linkages" found in this 9/11 related video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpw7fUj11bA&feature=player_embedded

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  4. hybridrogue1June 14, 2012 at 1:56 AM

    The Honorable Eric Holder???

    WTF is 'honorable' about this psychofuk?

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  5. laughnmatterJune 14, 2012 at 6:11 AM

    "There is no justice. there is just us."

    Just the very premise of "Fast & Furious" should have never been even thought of. I can't even imagine sitting in a room and having someone bring this up as a viable option.

    "Hey, I have a great idea. Let's sell guns to drug-lords and then bust them when they get them."

    Who in their right mind would go along with that? Who in their right mind would even say it? Why wouldn't the person that suggested it be sent for evaluation? Maybe given a long vacation in a nice psychiatric ward somewhere.

    Of course I know COTO knows the real reason for all this, and we know that excuses will be made when this fails to provide the justice it deserves.

    And I say GOOD! Let them once again spit in our faces. Let them pile on the humiliation. Anything to bring on their downfall via any means. Because we all know it's not going to come from or through the corrupt system. This system HAS to fail. And the sooner the better.

    By them denying justice on this issue it will inflame the fires of revolt. It's just one more injustice in a long list of injustices. And it's a big one. Good. Let the cretins hubris and arrogance shine. I hope they wind-up giving Holder a medal honoring him for his "service." A ticker-tape parade, ordering us to attend, and to be respectful.

    "Ho-ray for Holder! Long live our honorable Attorney General!"

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  6. boomerangcomesbackJune 14, 2012 at 8:05 AM

    This piece provided some interesting ideas regarding the Ron Paul Rand Paul scenario -- http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/113133-2012-06-10-thirty-pieces-
    of-silver.htm?EdNo=001&From=RSS

    Here we find disturbing linkages of Mitt Romney to Israeli Zionists. It is always the behind-the-scenes drivers that drive the bus. Americans should always strive to look behind the propaganda and politicians' rhetoric to find the reality behind the fictions:

    http://www.rense.com/general95/mittagnt.html

    Apparently, the homily, "You get the government you deserve" is untrue. You really get the government that slithers beneath the "covers" and bites you in the ass. These days, blind trust is fool's gold.

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  7. boomerangcomesbackJune 14, 2012 at 8:17 AM

    "Federal Reserve Directors’ Banks and Businesses Took $4 Trillion in Bailouts"

    Hmmm. Only $4 T?

    Sanctioned by Your Public "Servants" and billed to You Slaves...

    http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=242677

    How shall we all celebrate Independence Day? DogGone is the Republic. Stolen and subverted by agents of "change". Keep the change? We now know this was another one of those inverted "word play" schemes. A marketing slogan and propaganda pitch used to rally the peasants to their own undoing.

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  8. Puddy DunneJune 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM

    They muckety the madness by naming the event such as there are secveral movies and books that use that name. Therefore when you go to look it up on googlplex you get redirected to Nicholas Cage movies or some porn site. Not so clever is it?

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  9. Puddy DunneJune 14, 2012 at 9:04 AM

    I agree M, it must fall. But "We the People" must rise while it falls because the downdraft vortex will take the sheeple right into the black hole along with their false reality and material trappings.

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  10. Puddy DunneJune 14, 2012 at 9:11 AM

    “Latter-day Saints should be proud of their Zionist history—their prophets have always taught that the restoration of the Jewish State on its own land is the fulfillment of God’s will and one of the greatest acts of redemption in the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times. God is
    definitely not neutral when it comes to the protection and support of His ‘ancient covenant people.’

    “As all Latter-day Saints know, prayer and belief alone is not enough to fulfill God’s will, we must be ‘anxiously engaged in a good cause.’ I believe that we must actively support the Jewish People and their State by encouraging our Senators and Congressmen to support Israel, as well as encouraging our communities to tangibly bless and assist Israel as it strives to survive in a world of hostile enemies.

    “O ye Gentiles, have ye remembered the Jews, mine ancient covenant people? Nay; but ye have cursed them, and have hated them, and have not sought to recover them. But behold, I will return all these things upon your own heads; for I the Lord have not forgotten my people.” (2 Nephi 29:5—Book of Mormon)

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------http://www.jewishjournal.com/jews_and_mormons/item/a_mormon_zionist_at_brandeis_39100810/

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  11. Puddy DunneJune 14, 2012 at 9:22 AM

    I think it's time to forget the money. It's gone because it was never there. Debt issuance is the bookkeeping and cash assets are the recorded in blood and energy. Forget the money and secure your debt with the strawman and release yourself from the bondholder criminals. No contracts, no licenses and no debt.

    End the Fed? That's how it's done.

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  12. Puddy DunneJune 14, 2012 at 5:10 PM

    I think it's too quiet right now. The Bildeberg meeting was likely a serious affair.

    QE3 is coming and the election will get real nasty. Grover Norquist and the Koch bros. must be getting ready to light the fuse. I expect it explodes after last party in London.

    Depression without war. Death with it. America will choose the latter. That's when I blow.
    By the time we get to the streets, the criminals will scurry from DC like cockroaches leaving a tented house into their bunkers.

    America will be too busy hosing their roofs and getting chemotherapy to notice.



    A nice 6.7 Los Angeles Eartquake would be a nice diversion off fast & furious

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