Darrell Issa to Sue Eric Holder Monday– – Do you approve?
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House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa
plans to sue Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday for refusing to
provide documents related to the "Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling
operation.
"The committee expects to file the civil contempt suit
against the attorney general Monday," a Republican source said. The suit
will be filed in the federal district court for the District of
Columbia.
The action is the latest escalation in the dispute
between House Republicans and the Justice Department over the documents,
which relate to a botched gun-smuggling operation.
On June 28,
the House voted to hold Holder in contempt of Congress and authorized
the Oversight panel to bring suit to enforce its rights.
In Fast
and Furious, agents for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives allowed assault guns to "walk," which meant ending
surveillance on weapons suspected to be en route to Mexican drug
cartels.
Read More: http://www.rollcall.com/news/darrell_issa_to_sue_e...
The report confirmed that American ICE agent Jaime Zapata was killed with a weapon smuggled through the Operation “Fast & Furious” program.
But that’s not all the report uncovered.
Information was revealed that Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, who is one of Eric Holder’s right-hand men at the Justice Department, told Holder about the “Fast & Furious”-related programs in an August 19, 2009 memo.
Of course, as I have previously written, Holder has on a number of occasions said under oath that he has no knowledge of “Fast & Furious” until well into 2010.
With all the focus on this specific operation and Eric Holder, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that since day one, the Obama administration has been looking for a way to restrict our Second Amendment rights.
“Fast & Furious” was concocted to be a public relations ploy intended to convince the American people that Congress had to pass new gun restrictions and the UN “Small Arms Treaty” through the U.S. Senate.