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Rep. Issa Officially Subpoenas Atty. Gen. Holder Over ‘Fast and Furious’

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa sent Attorney General Eric Holder a subpoena earlier today to get all relevant Operation Fast and Furious communications in an effort to determine when, exactly, Holder first learned about the ill-conceived gunrunning sting.Rep. Darrel Issa Sends Eric Holder a Subpoena for Fast and Furious

The subpoena requests information from 16 top Department of Justice officials as well as correspondence between DOJ and the former head of the ATF’s Arizona field office, Bill Newell.

It also requests all DOJ communications relating to the mission of murdered Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata, and murdered U.S. Border Agent Brian Terry.

A key issue has become whether Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself when he told Congress on May 3rd, 2011, that he learned of Operation Fast and Furious “over the last few weeks.” As The Blaze reported earlier this month, there are internal Department of Justice memos from July of 2010 addressed to the Attorney General that describe the Fast and Furious program nine months before his testimony.

The pressure is clearly mounting on the Department of Justice to explain the decision-making process behind Operation Fast and Furious, and for a full accounting of the operation to be given to the American people. Chairman Issa’s office released a statement on the subpoena that says, according to Fox News:

“Top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Holder, know more about Operation Fast and Furious than they have publicly acknowledged. The documents this subpoena demands will provide answers to questions that Justice officials have tried to avoid since this investigation began eight months ago. It’s time we know the whole truth.”

Attorney General Holder has told reporters that his office would “undoubtedly comply” with the subpoenas.

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  • TrailBlazer66
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 2:33pm

    It’s past time to confront this lying x-chicago thug. He is guilty as can be. We can not afford any more corruption. He needs to hit the road running into Fed prison for life!

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    • nobama4ever
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 3:26pm

      Once this thug is convicted he should go to jail along with his boss, obassma

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  • CHESTER MOUSE
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 2:20pm

    Someone should look into the murder of the farmer who was killed on his own property I think it was in Texas, interesting if they could trace that bullet back to this pig.- I hope someone cares enough to just even look into it for this poor victim and his family, my hunch is its connected.

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    • This_Individual
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:34pm

      There was one rancher murdered in AZ . I wouldn’t be surprised though if it happened in Texas. In the South Eastern part of California, there have been instances of bodies found dismembered.

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  • Moozmom
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 2:12pm

    “It’s time we knew the truth”?
    The truth is, our federal government, for the most part, are liars, communists, marxists, and crooks slowly allowing this country to disintegrate into a dictatorship. That’s the truth.
    Don’t look for anyone in Washington for the truth; “they can’t handle the truth”.

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  • Rajabear1
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:59pm

    Hip, Hip Hurray! Keep em coming! Left or right, doesn’t matter. Get the pukes that are trying their darndest to take down the Republic.

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  • Drakkhanlord
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:54pm

    Pardon and Pacify… Have Windchimes all over DC…

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  • Micmac
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:46pm

    If Holder is forced to resign over this, as it does appear his arrogance has allowed him to lie to Congress, it would be a 1st step in mitigating NoBama’s free reign… but just a small start. But what I really want to see is the rest of Congress getting behind this type of action against NoBama’s fiefdom…but the Repub congressmen are all whimps and RINOS. I see the Tea Party as a natural uprising filling the void that Congress doesn’t fill… following the laws set up by our Founders. Mitt will obviously be the Repub candidate, and he is a poster boy for RINO.

    NoBama 2012
    NoBama 2012

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  • discus02
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:44pm

    Does he really expect a truthful answer, Holder has been coached by the biggest liar ever Obama.

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  • PCDoctors4u2
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:44pm

    At the Very Least he is guilty of Perjury and accessory to Murder…
    I believe it is an act of treason to give weapons to an occupying force, the Cartels, who are in league with our Enemies, the Iranians, during war time! Even worse, if their objectives are to create an event that would illustrate their position of further Gun Control Regulation, that would truly be insidious!
    Maybe we should extradite AG Holder to stand trial before a Mexican Magistrate who’s family was directly affected by those illegal gun shipments. Capital Punishment is still very big in Mexico, as a deterrent.

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  • godhead
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:43pm

    CapeCodsullied . . . Sorry, no room left in disgrace. It’s full of conservatards.

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  • kspatriot
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:38pm

    Throw the book at this BUM, then go after Obama. I just hope the next REPUBLICAN administration has the guts to go after Obama and his administration for ALL of the crimes they’ve committed.

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  • capecodsully
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:36pm

    You libs have reason to be frightened, your heros are all criminals and this is just the beginning. Talk bravely while you can. You’ll be hiding in disgrace soon enough.

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  • americathebankrupt
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:33pm

    I will bet G Gordan Liddy is Laughing his butt off right now.What they did was legal.Cover up was not.The irony of it ALL!

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  • capecodsully
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:31pm

    We know Obama and Holder are criminals, it’s time we prove it.

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  • RealAmerican2
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:27pm

    Good. Issa needs to stay on top of this. The events of yesterday with the “out of the blue” terror plot that was revealed by Holder should not be a distraction from the “Fast and Furious” cloud that hangs over his head. The fact that Holder himself held that news presser was odd as it was, because normally, the Pentagon would have delivered that information to the public. To those of us who are actually watching both hands and paying attention, Holder very obviously was using the surprise terror plot to redeem himself and make himself the hero of the day, in hopes of steering the attention away from his imminent subpoenas.

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    • DanWesson455
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:34pm

      In the words of Christianity: “Nail him to the Cross”.

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    • capecodsully
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:38pm

      DANWESSON455 – Holder isn’t good enough for a cross, BURY him with the rest of the garbage.

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    • ihveit
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 8:20pm

      DanWesson455
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:34pm
      In the words of Christianity: “Nail him to the Cross”.

      ihv and desecrate the true meaning of the cross…. this idiot needs to bee uhhhh waterboarded first… then face a firing squad for treason… then i am sure the boarding will get many other convicted and put in prison.

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  • tankyjo
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:18pm

    Way to go Darrell !!!!!! Who else will have the guts to come along? That, my friends, is the next tell.

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:17pm

    All who allowed US guns to go to mexican drug cartel should go to JAIL

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  • Slayer
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:11pm

    Today in Obama’s presidency: USS Cole bombing goes by without mention. Pennsylvania’s capital city files for bankruptcy. Obama’s attorney general is issued a subpoena. US debt is less than $121 billion away from a record $15 trillion. New poll finds Perry, Cain, Romney all beating Obama. The Department of Labor has spent $162 million on its own green jobs program, which has found steady work for just 1,336 people as of June. And there is so much more of today to go!

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  • This_Individual
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:09pm

    Another good thing to come out of California. Go get ‘em Darrel!

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  • texanpatriot
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:07pm

    The arrogance and dishonesty is catching up with Holder. He will be prosecuted at some point for not enforcing the law (New Black Panthers, DOMA). Now it looks like he (and maybe Obama) will pay for a stupid game they played with people’s lives and to what end?. Why did they ever let the guns get into the cartel’s hands?
    Go Rep. Issa!!! No one is above the law…

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  • ares338
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:05pm

    This will most likely go nowhere unless Obama throws him under the bus which he is quite capable of doing.

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    • ecurbyy
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:50pm

      Oh Yea! It’s lonely at the top. I’d love to see Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Holder, Wasserman, Waters all locked up together, with no contact with anyone else, forever. Just a couple bowls of gruel a day. Bet they’d kill each other within a week. Get a video of the whole thing and broadcast it on all those main stream liberal stations. (It’s still okay to dream, isn’t it?)

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    • I.Gaspar
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 2:29pm

      ECURBYY:
      If they did actually survive a week, my dream has them all working on a Georgia chain gang in 100 degree heat, getting ready for their journey to hell.
      Hope I haven’t stepped on your dream too much.

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  • Blackhawk1
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:04pm

    I wish just for once you liberals would give a factual example of what you accuse a conservative of. Hundreds of investigation? Maybe if Holder gets the boot most of the Hundreds of investigations won’t be necessary, the problem will be mostly solved.

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  • HKS
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 12:51pm

    let the juke & Jive and rope-a-dope begin. Probably blame it on Bush.

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  • Mike N
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 12:48pm

    If ever there was a time to not let up, now is it.

    Holder has shrunk from rightly persuading the POTUS, who has made so many “edgy” decisions, relying on the popularly democratic “plausible deniability” and policy creation by tsars rather than legislating from Congress.

    From day one, their first order of business has been the dereliction of duty.

    Fire holder, impeach Obama, try them and then hang them.

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  • Boojer56
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 12:46pm

    Its time for Holder and his buddys to go.

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  • Sirfoldallot
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 12:44pm

    Holder is above the law , when are you ppl going to learn.

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    • colonial10
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:00pm

      I agree. Obama is also. He admits it in his jobs bill proposal. He said, ” we are not going to wait for the congress, let’s just get it done” If our own President doesn’t follow the law then it will be directly related to social upheaval.
      Here is an excerpt from Xenophon’s conversations of Socrates.
      Socrates, “Don’t you know that the best leaders are those who are most efficient in making the people obey the laws, and that a city in which the people are most obedient to the laws has the best life in time of peace and is irresistible in war? Moreover, concord is accepted to be the greatest blessing in a State, and very commonly in a State, the Senate and the aristocracy call upon the citizens to agree….”

      If Obama and Holding are above the law by overriding the law and blatantly abuse it then we will have a part of the populace that will follow their example. They have usurped the Constitution and it is on its last leg. If Obama has his way and gets re elected we will be a boat dead on the water.

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