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"Fast and Furious", Attorney General U.S., Darrell Issa, Eric Holder, House Speaker John Boehner, Justice Department
House GOP leaders said Friday they are pursuing a plan to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and the Justice Department in contempt for “stonewalling” them over information regarding the administration’s failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking program.
GOP Rep. Darrell Issa confirmed to Fox News that House Speaker John Boehner gave him and others on his House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform the authority to drafted a contempt of Congress resolution.
“We have a few other options (but) to a great extent we’ve been stonewalled by the Justice Department,” said Issa, R-Calif.
The news of the document and the extended meeting in Boehner’s office was reported first by The Los Angeles Times.
“We have issued a subpoena,” Utah GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a member of the oversight committee, said earlier on Fox News. “We have bent over backwards to be patient and take time. (Holder) is leading us down a path where we have no other choice.”
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The sound you just heard, is a cry of joyful relief that Congress is finally doing what must be done.
The Obama regime and Eric “my people” Holder have been stonewalling and covering up this horrendous situation, for over a year. The lack of cooperation is absolutely breathtaking; the lack of accountability is jarringly stunning.
There is, of course, no telling how long before this is completely resolved. But at the end of the process, Eric Holder should be impeached.
