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Top DOJ Official Refuses Fast and Furious Subpoena

On Friday evening, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich refused the congressional request for subpoenaed documents regarding Operation Fast and Furious– claiming that GOP lawmakers can’t be trusted with the information.

According to CNN, in a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), Weich suggested that sensitive information was being leaked to the media by their staffs.

“While we do not know who provided these letters to reporters, we are deeply disturbed that the sensitive law-enforcement information contained in them has now entered the public realm…This public disclosure is impeding the department’s efforts to hold individuals accountable for their illegal acts,” he said.

DOJ Official Ronald Weich Refuses Fast and Furious Subpoena, Claims GOP Staff Leaks Sensitive Information

Ronald Weich and Eric Holder

Therefore, Weich is denying Issa‘s and Grassley’s subpoena because of the “sensitivity” of the ongoing operation.

Issa spokeswoman Becca Watkins responded Friday night, saying, “It is troubling that the attorney general continues to express the outlandish view that his compliance with lawful and binding subpoenas is merely optional.”

CNN reports:

The ongoing dispute over access to Justice documents stems from an aggressive investigation by Issa’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, with Grassley’s help, into the origins and impact of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ Operation Fast and Furious. That sting operation allowed agents to monitor illegally purchased long guns in Arizona gun shops. The weapons bought by straw purchasers were then smuggled into Mexico. Hundreds of weapons were then lost, and two of them turned up at the homicide site of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

Attorney General Eric Holder has acknowledged the flawed tactic, and has vowed that guns will not be allowed ‘to walk’ from gun shops near the border with Mexico.

(H/T: Twitchy)

Comments (210)

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  • Best7
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:04pm

    I guess the Obama Administration is above the law. I guess we should change our government text books.

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    • afishfarted
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:18pm

      Best7, it’s about time you understand !! A marxist dictator and his minnions do what they please, and everyone else do what they say.

      Constitution ?!?!?! We don‘t need no stinkin’ Constitution

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:58pm

      FISH: Yeah. But I sure wish we’d see some real ” stink’n badges” work their magic on this crowd.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 6:00pm

      Exactly .. Obama only studied the Constitution to destroy it.

      OMG 2012!

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 6:03pm

      Obama and friends believe they are above the law indeed; its past time to start the jails being filled up with the admin who fail to understand – they are not above the law; if this Asst DA has refused to give up the records then send him to jail.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 10:41pm

      The more they resist and refuse, the more they appear guilty of covering up.
      I’m starting to think this goes ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP. As in White House. As in obama himself.

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    • Marine 1
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 11:14pm

      Do not pass “GO”, “Do not collect $200.00″, Go directly to jail.

      The average American would immediately go to jail for refusing a subpoena. LE would come and pick up your butt in a heartbeat and throw you in jail until you complied. Why should Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich be any different? His boss should go with him. They are all corrupt and we know it.

      This nation stinks like a mink farm on a hot summer day with all the corruption in Washington, D.C. and other places. Everyone of us knows that there is nothing but corruption from the top down. It’s on both side of the fence too.

      Who inside the beltway has any courage to do something about it? Any honest folks left in D.C.?

      You know, the day is coming when something is going to happen in this nation and a great many patriot-citizens are simply going to say “No.” What then?

      Video at nine…

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    • Rampart
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 11:49pm

      Come on Issa! Hold these crooks in contempt of Congress and throw them out of office! How much longer does this circus go on?

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 11:54pm

      Justice is coming for you Eric Holder…America demands this..Watch for a pardon as Obama leaves office..

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:16am

      Where is the other third of our Government if it’s to sensitive for the House and Senate give it to the Supreme Court unless you really have something to hide.

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    • NV_RICK
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:47am

      Come on man who wrote the text books ????

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    • MYHEROISRON
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:27am

      Call the U.S. Marshall Service. If they don’t make the DOJ comply then all of America will see it, and so will the world. That’s when I will go to D.C. armed to the teeth!!

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    • Virginia Joe
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:37am

      November is coming. If we can just hold out until November….

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    • StonyBurk
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:55am

      When will Congress get the message that the DOJ leadership can’t be trusted with the Office?

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 10:24am

      So, we have a break away Department of Justice now? Working outside of government control? on its own discretion? Sounds a lot like a KGB type of operation, to me. They get this model from Hugo Chavez?

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:41pm

      As soon as the DOJ releases the info to Congress, the DOJ will leak it to the press, blame Congress and use it to further impede the investigation.

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    • BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:55pm

      EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL………DEMAND IT !!!!!

      What a logical argument. The JUSTICE Department refuses to release evidence based on the “sensitivity” of the information. What a great racket…..Commit a crime and then be in charge of the evidence that can prove your guilt. Hold it…….Hold it…….Hold it……is the election here yet? Hold it……Remember Saul Alinsky….Educate, Agitate, Aggravate, Organize. POS evil dogs.

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    • dominke
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:09pm

      Obama and his liberal thugs have made it clear that constitution is history and only one person is running the show,KING OBAMA. How many realize that Obama has already peacetime martial law in place? How many believe he will call for riots this fall to impose war time martial law in USA? Congress has NO AUTHORITY any more. It has become a dog and pony show in congress. Will the people stand up and defend our land and restore our rights or bow down to black muslim and become enslaved in our own country? Third world UNITED STATES OF MUSLIM. Those that are for Obama and liberal ideas have sold out USA.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 10:30am

      Seems pretty cut and dry here if the DOJ refuses to come forth with the Information THAT THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE DEMANDS.. Shut down the DOJ. Pass a bill that removes the DOJ from being involved with any cases until it comes gives all the info. the house requires.

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    • its_time_to_arrest_our_government
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:45pm

      yes they cant be trusted to let you off the hook for the murder of a federal officer. holder and obama both need to be removed from office. one is illegally holding office the other is a murderer or both are murderers

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    • MetalPatriot
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:54pm

      @Marine1

      Prison…absolutely. The problem is the law only applies to the governed, not the government. Our Consitution is gone…in relation to the governement.

      The time is nearly at hand where “live free or die” won’t be a cute slogan anymore. Things are going to be harsh for those of us who won’t comply.

      We can expect a “contract worker” military = civilians to be the enforcers. With the guys all being brought home, without jobs, the highest bidder will be too much a temption. It even sounds alluring because it’s doing the “same type” of work. No oath to defend the Consitution for civilian work though…makes a tremendous difference.

      You know as well as anybody that militaries & wars are tools for political means. The average Bubba is doing what is honorable without knowing it’s for the wrong side. We also know that the top brass are just politicians at heart. We also know that the Secretary of Defense is a civilian…who has no business in that position.

      I fear our “video at nine” is almost ready for broadcast.

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 3:18pm

      And absolutely no one will do a damn thing about it.
      THAT is the really sad part of this.

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  • The Gooch
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:04pm

    So much for transparency…

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:26pm

      How about CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS … we used to be a country of laws. Before the dicatorship that is .. these guys make Nixon look like a choir boy!

      OMG 2012!

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:32am

      Sweet-Old-Barack and Eric Holdup decide which laws are to be inforced and which ones will be ignored? They have stated this many times.
      Can’t congress have some branch of law enforcement serve warrants for Contempt? Is there a Fed agency that doesn’t fall under DOJ that has arrest powers? What about Federal Police or US Marshals?
      These arrogant A-holes must be forced to obey the law just as any American citizen. :If any of us refused a supeona we would be hand cuffed and booked in a New York Minute.

      OMG 2012

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:29pm

      When you “shoot” a photographic transparancy, it is opaqe(no-light-goes-through), until it is fully developed. Only then is it “transparrent” E.Holder’s “stuff” is truly-transparant…only WETHEPEOPLE can ge it properly develloped. :0)

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    • MYHEROISRON
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:48pm

      @THE MONK

      Good call, MONK!

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:02pm

    I went to that twitchy link and there is a twitter feed claiming that the leak is from the DOJ….
    Hmn…………..

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  • Zuse
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:59pm

    Barack Obama : “Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency”

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    • Best7
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:07pm

      Good point! What happened to Obama’s promise of transparency? Wow! You don’t think Obama says whatever he can to get elected do you???

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:11pm

      Just one of the “99% ” Phony phrases and creative math of the New Democrat Party .

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:14pm

      Ha. Guess the one thing he meant , and was honest about, was he was going to “ change” America. Unfortunately, we didn’t realize that that “ change ” meant to ruin the economy and to destroy our capitalist system !

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 6:07pm

      You misunderstood Barry

      He said, “Translucent”

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:02pm

      @13th
      said transparent, meant opaque

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    • Daddy Hawg
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 10:21am

      When wil y’all learn not to trust anything the idiot in charge says!? For example “I am telling my administration to fast track the Keystone pipeline.” The part that goes from Omaha to Texas, which border each other. It is all about deception with theis guy and he is a master. His chicanery will be the end of the US as we know it should he finagle another term in the office.

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  • Doug Badger
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:59pm

    Contempt charges, NOW.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:48pm

      I agree .. time to find a backbone…. grow a pair … put on their big boy pants .. .and TAKE THEM ON!

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    • texrubarts
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:50am

      Holder should just be picked up and allowed NO phone call (which is the law the dems want to pass) and hold him indefinitely!!! Oh and they should “water board” a confession out of him!!!! LOL-LOL

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:56pm

    I hope Republicans will do more than stamp their feet and whine like they did when Obama made recess appointments when the Senate wasn’t in recess.

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  • The_Almighty_Creestof
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:55pm

    Place him under citizens arrest for contempt of court…or whatever : )

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:09pm

      Cripe almighty! this the congress of the United States- either something bad happens to this schmuck, or we might as well shut that big building on the hill down- for good!

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:44pm

    This is nothing more than tyranny from this administration.. So now what Congress?? Are you just going to take it.. if so bend over. You people disgust me. Arrest the creeps in the DOJ.. it is so obvious they are guilty. Why else wouldn’t they show you whatever you ask for?? And until you people really do something your a part of it! And November.. well its going to be here real quick. As far as I a concerned there is maybe 1% of the lot of you that are worth keeping! Vote em out folks, vote em out! They are what brought us here!

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:59pm

      Issa’s not going to do squat to Holder and the DOJ. The fix is in.

      Apparently, Boehner is complicit in this cover up, too.

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    • AJAYW
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:27pm

      Why are we even paying the congress – they are doing nothing to stop this out of control this idiot.
      They have allow obama to make himself a dictator, they many as well go home. Harry Reid will find out that all he has been to oama is a useful idiot. He isn’t needed.

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    • PoliticallyRightUs.Com
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 6:01pm

      Vote them out??? Are you serious??? Do you really think this is the way to correct criminal acts in Gov.t??? The Only way is: Criminal Prosecution taking them out in hand cuffs!!! We need to send those Monsters a message that “This is America” and this will not be tolerated!!! We start by investigating each and every one of them… One by One then taking them down for the crimes in which they committed! This will tip the balance of power in the Senate giving the Conservatives the power to impeach! Prosecution will send a message to those people and their supporters! When we have the Right people running this country we can put America back to its rightful standing in the world!

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  • drago
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:43pm

    I wonder, if any of odumbos minions realize, that when the are gone from government, they dont take a secret service detail with them?

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:42pm

    Let’s see…..The last time something like this happened……I remember now! Something called Watergate?

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    • HKS
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:51pm

      Oh the cover-ups just keep coming, be interesting to see if anyone in congress is awake. One would think that there’s at least one congressman wanting to make a name for himself. What a golden opportunity is going by here.

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    • RayOne
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:57pm

      Senate Cowardice is the word for this behavior.
      If a citizen does not respond to this directive, there will be handcuffs and jail time.

      Report Post » RayOne  
    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 7:17pm

      BLACKCROW, Watergate was nothing but a break in of the DNC offices in hopes of gaining information regarding the illegal activities of the Democrats. Certainly not trying to make it sound like an okay thing to do. It was certainly an illegal thing to do.A peripheral mission was to recover the photo and escort information of John Dean’s wife from the files of escort women and prostitutes at that time employed by the DNC. Oh yeah, they attempted to wire tap the offices in hopes of gaining continuing intel. But, unlike Fast and Furious, nobody died, nobody put firearms into the hands of criminals, nobody committed an actual of war against a neighboring sovereign nation, and nobody attempted such an attack on the Constitution by trying to make the 2nd Amendment seem irrelevant. To me this is like trying to compare a serial murderer with two little girls setting up a lemonade stand without a permit.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 7:19pm

      Dang, that should be “an act of war” above

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    • chfields62
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:26pm

      Watergate?? That’s like comparing shoplifting to the Limberg heist, this guy makes Nixon look like a boy scout….

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:31pm

    MORE STONEWALLING.. they are stalling SO much and HOPING this will just fade away, too…. I DON’T THINK SO!

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    • db321
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:48pm

      I can hear it now – assuming we have an election – Obama Administration refusing to leave the WH – they can’t trust the GOP!

      We are going to have to physically drag each and everyone of them out of the White Masque after the Election.

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  • Nigel2
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:29pm

    Any guesses on who actually leaked them? Most likely the pathetic DOJ, as a pretext for not releasing more. Just like the gun walking was a pretext for more stringent gun control..

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 7:24pm

      There are laws in place to keep an incoming administration from firing everybody and replacing them with “his/her” choices. They can only replace certain key positions. So, there are some still there more than interested in providing the leaks. Woe be unto them if caught though.

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  • steveh931
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:26pm

    Time for the Federal Marshall’s to step in.

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  • Scarybones
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:25pm

    If it is that sensitive then have a closed hearing, otherwise have his a$$ arrested and brought before the congress to answer questions directly.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 6:12pm

      I guess going to jail might be what he considers sensitive

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  • spirited
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:13pm

    Attorney General Eric Holder has acknowledged the flawed tactic, and has vowed that guns will not be allowed ‘to walk’ from gun shops near the border with Mexico.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Ya….. and…. The son’l come out to morrow…..; always a day a way.

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    • I_Drink_Your_Milkshake
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:27pm

      I don’t understand how allowing information to the public is impedeing the investigation.

      Or is it impedeing their abilty to cover it up further

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    • Celeste.Christi
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:56pm

      “guns will not be allowed ‘to walk’ from gun shops near the border with Mexico”

      Selective wording.
      There are around 44 States not “near the border” with Mexico. What about those?

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:06pm

      @Drink
      This is some senssitive stuff. Just suppose the “information” gives a WHOLE lot of whos, when and how muches. Old Ole North could have some ideas about this.

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  • pothos42
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:12pm

    The investigation needs to be “agressive” as a result of the lying and stonewalling coming from the DOJ. I wonder if the investigation into Watergate was described as “agressive” by the MSM?

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  • TexBork
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:07pm

    Of course the DOJ doesn’t trust the republicans. The DOJ is controlled by the democrats and they know that the hugely democrat party damaging amounts of information in it can’t be trusted to continue to be covered up as the party and administration has so far.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:08pm

      Probably hiding this stuff with Obama / Soetoro school records. They must be in some secure, secret spot !

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  • 000degrees
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:05pm

    This whole administration deserves to be tried as traitors to the constitution. They are a national disgrace.

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  • rawmilker
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:04pm

    In fine dictatorial regime fashion…this guy should be in prison awaiting execution.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:49pm

      wait..wait…WAIT! His Highness just signed-inta-law the provision to hold [anyone] for anything, indefinitly, without cause, incomunicado,…if they are and inkling of suspected of thinking of wanting to be mabe… . Does this give one a hint, inkling,smigin(etc…) of .001%-of taking……… .

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  • IMCHRISTIAN
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:03pm

    What is more important the loss of some papers or loss of a son?

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  • Dawnwalk
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:03pm

    Are we sure the leak is the committe or could it be the DOJ?….

    Report Post » Dawnwalk  
  • geonj
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:01pm

    the obama administration is getting bolder. there will be a civil war after obama suspends the 2012 elections

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    • lukerw
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:08pm

      He now has the power to Define & Declare an Emergency… and assume the function of Dictator!

      Report Post » lukerw  
    • 1NJslave
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:29pm

      I feel there will be one regardless of who becomes the next POTUS. History is repeating itself, why else did the schools stop teaching history? So that we couldn’t see it unfold before our very eyes. As long as the people keep buying into the side show distractions, all of the leaders who drove us here will drop us off at the nearest dilapitated city & tell us that they’ll be back in an hour to pick us up. Look around at the world surrounding you. Where have the corn fields gone? Where have all the dairy farms in NJ gone? Turned into partical board shacks with plastic siding slapped together by transient workers. Enjoy eating soylant green, I mean pink slime, I mean, you know, that stuff that you can’t quite explain what it looks like but is OK with ketchup and mustard. DOJ now stands for department of jackwads

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  • RayOne
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:58pm

    The Senate Sub Committee Panel should make the request and ask that the President direct him to respond.

    Report Post » RayOne  
  • Robocop6849
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:58pm

    How is it that Holder hasn’t been impeached yet?

    Report Post » Robocop6849  
    • EP46
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:35am

      They are trying to drag it out past the election….

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:55pm

    Hey, thats how you don’t get arrested, refuse the sopenea. Yeah, thats the ticket.

    Report Post » Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra  
    • Red Meat
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:59pm

      Issa and Grassley are worthless shills as is John Boehner.

      Report Post » Red Meat  
    • garylee123
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:10pm

      @ redmeat
      Yeah. trying to find out the truth about the murder of a Border agent caused by OUR gov’t. is soooo shilly

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    • drago
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:45pm

      @redmeat aka encinom, more like dead meat.

      If you want to see worthless, pull your head out of you ass long enough to look in a mirror…….

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    • taxpro4u03
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:27pm

      He’s the head guy in the DOJ — I haven‘t heard him cry ’sovereign immunity’ yet — but ‘obstruction of Just Us’ is as obvious as _______.

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