Issa Predicts Contempt Vote on Holder for 'Clear Cover-Up'
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2012/06/25 14:30:19
U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said the Justice Department’s refusal to turn over documents related to a failed gun-smuggling operation was “clearly a cover-up” by Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration.
“It was deny, delay and recuse,” Issa, a California Republican, said on ABC’s “This Week” of his panel’s clash with the administration.
“Lying to Congress is a crime,” he said. “We have every right to see documents that say, did you know, when did you know, what did you know, including even the president.”
Appearing later on Fox News, Issa also predicted that Republicans and Democrats would vote to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress this week.
Department Memo
Issa said today that his panel is particularly concerned about a Justice Department memo generated weeks later that may have shown agency officials were aware at that time Congress had been given false information. The panel seeks the memo, drafted by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein, as part of the probe.
“How can you presume that it is or isn’t a cover-up of something wrong, when in fact there clearly is a cover-up of some information that should have been shown to us?” he said.
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“It was deny, delay and recuse,” Issa, a California Republican, said on ABC’s “This Week” of his panel’s clash with the administration.
“Lying to Congress is a crime,” he said. “We have every right to see documents that say, did you know, when did you know, what did you know, including even the president.”
Appearing later on Fox News, Issa also predicted that Republicans and Democrats would vote to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress this week.
Department Memo
Issa said today that his panel is particularly concerned about a Justice Department memo generated weeks later that may have shown agency officials were aware at that time Congress had been given false information. The panel seeks the memo, drafted by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein, as part of the probe.
“How can you presume that it is or isn’t a cover-up of something wrong, when in fact there clearly is a cover-up of some information that should have been shown to us?” he said.
Read more on Newsmax.com: Issa Predicts Contempt Vote on Holder for 'Clear Cover-Up'
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Schläue~© 2012/06/25 14:59:01
The DOJ had handed 7,600 documents over to the over sight committee, with held 70,000 of them and claim that Holder is cooperating? Give me a break.
Now Obama asserts an executive privilege as a way of saying, just mind your own business. That's going to piss a lot of people off.
Criminal activities are to be ignored. That Gov has stolen and misappropriated the many trillions paid in by the People and has added $15+ trillion more as "Debt" which it claims is "owed by the People" is to be ignored? Such is "the greater good"!
So I predict that nothing of substance will happen on F&F.; The noise will continue for a time, and then we'll move on to some new foible to entertain the sheeple.