According to just-breaking Fox News reports, the Congressional investigation into the failed and deadly Operation Fast and Furious program intends to issue a new subpoena to Obama Attorney General Eric Holder today.
Unlike an earlier subpoena back in March that dealt specifically with the ATF, this most recent subpoena appears much broader, encompassing the Department of Justice – and most importantly, Attorney General Eric Holder himself. Fox News is indicating the subpoena will be focusing on access to communications between top ranking DOJ officials on the subject of Fast and Furious, and the events surrounding the death of Border Agent Brian Terry.
Already leaked documents in recent days appear to indicate Attorney General Eric Holder may very well have lied to Congress when giving testimony last spring. At that time Holder indicated he had just recently learned of the Fast and Furious operation. Information disclosed from the recently overturned DOJ documents appear to directly contradict Holder’s claim- a situation that places the Attorney General in the increasingly uncomfortable and politically volatile situation of having to defend his earlier and apparently false testimony to Congress.
This latest subpoena indicates Congressional investigators are now attempting to confirm if Eric Holder committed perjury. If such perjury is proven, the Attorney General’s future in his present position at the Obama Department of Justice is likely nearing its end. Further speculation will then focus on President Obama himself. White House insiders have indicated those closest to the president have been working diligently to insulate President Obama from the now increasingly certain and significant fallout coming from the Fast and Furious debacle. Whether those efforts prove successful remains to be seen.
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Major media outlets: “Yawn. Let’s cover these incredible protests.”
Lets not forget Patrick Fitzgeralds part in this !
Burying an Investigation: Patrick Fitzgerald and the Outing of CIA Agents
http://www.cdobs.com/archive/featured/burying-an-investigation-patrick-fitzgerald-and-the-outing-of-cia-agents/
Rep Issa is attacking Holder in exactly the right way! He asked Obama for a Special Prosecutor KNOWING Obama would decline to appoint one. Now Issa can try this PUBLICALLY in the House. Holder’s and Obama’s proverbial chickens are coming home to roost.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is very disappointed to hear of Holder’s troubles.
Will Holder hold Congress in contempt and simply refuse to cooperate, citing Executive priviledge? Since we have Occupy Wall Street terrorizing coroprate executive residences, perhaps it’s time to up the ante and play the race card against the residences of Issa and other Republicans in Congress. After all, who are they going to turn to for protection, Holder?
Well, well, well… Holder had a trump card from Iran, and he chose to play it today. Suppose he thinks that will suck the life out of the subpoenas, or maybe give him a “national security” narrative to use in further stonewalling…
Anthony Martin
Conservative Examiner
Last week it was reported that the State Department and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were deeply involved in the scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, or Project Gunwalker. Today, however, new evidence has surfaced indicating that not only was Hillary deeply involved in the scandal but was one of the masterminds behind it.
According to investigative citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh, sources close to the development of the Gunwalker scheme state that early on, Hillary and her trusted associated at State, Andrew J. Shapiro, devised at least part of the framework of what would later become Operation Fast and Furious. It was Shapiro who first described the details of the proposed scheme early in 2009 just after the Obama Administration took office.
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Vanderboegh relates the following:
My sources say that as Hillary’s trusted subordinate, it was Shapiro who first described to the Secretary of State the details of what has become the Gunwalker Scandal.
The precise extent to which Hillary Clinton’s knowledge of, and responsibility for, the Gunwalker Plot, lies within the memories of these two men, Shapiro and Steinberg, sources say.
The sources also express dismay that the Issa committee is apparently restricting itself to the Department of Justice and not venturing further afield. The House Foreign Affairs Committee, they say, needs to summon these two men and their subordinates — especially at the Mexico Desk at State — and question them under oath as to what Hillary Clinton knew about the origins of the Gunwalker Scandal and when she knew it.
There is one other thing those sources agree upon. The CIA, they say, knows “everything” about the “Mexican hat dance” that became the Gunwalker Scandal.
The ‘Steinberg’ mentioned in the quote above is Hillary Clinton’s former Deputy Secretary of State, who was appointed directly by Barack Obama and was considered from the start to be an ‘Obama man’ whose objective was to carry out the wishes of the President in the State Department.
Hillary had said of Steinberg,
Clinton said Steinberg had been a “fixture†at meetings with the National Security Council (NSC) and frequently represented the US State Department at the White House.
That statement is key. Hillary herself stayed out of all meetings dealing with strategy concerning the euphemism the Administration used to designate Gunwalker, ‘strategy meetings on Mexico and the problem of drug and gun trafficking.’ Hillary’s absence would give the impression that she had no connection to the scheme while making sure that her views were represented by Steinberg and Shapiro, both of whom were fully complicit with the details that developed concerning how to pad statistics on U.S. guns in Mexico.
According to sources, Hillary was obsessed with gun statistics that would prove that ’90% of the firearms used by Mexican criminals come from the United States.’ As previouly reported, that meme, repeated incessantly by Democratic Senators, Barack Obama, certan members of the ATF, Janet Napolitano, and Hillary Clinton was patently and blatantly false. The fact that they all knew it was false is borne out by the lengths to which each of the above named co-conspirators went to attempt to ‘prove’ that the 90% figure was true.
Again, Vanderboegh relates the following:
My sources say that this battle of the “statistics” was taken very seriously by all players — the White House, State and Justice. Yet, WHY was this game of statistics so important to the players? If some weapons from the American civilian market were making it to Mexico into the hand of drug gang killers that was bad enough. What was the importance of insisting that it was 90 percent, 80 percent, or finally 70 percent? Would such statistics make any difference to the law enforcement tactics necessary to curtail them? No.
This statistics mania is similar to the focus on “body counts” in Vietnam. Yet if Vietnam body counts were supposed to be a measure of how we were winning that war, the focus on the 90 percent meme was certainly not designed to be a measure of how we were winning the war against arming the cartels, but rather by what overwhelming standard we were LOSING. Why?
Recall what the whistleblower ATF agents told us right after this scandal broke in the wake of the death of Brian Terry: “ATF source confirms ‘walking’ guns to Mexico to ‘pad’ statistics.”
Thus, from the beginning the scheme was to pad statistics on U.S. runs in Mexico in order to be in a strengthened position to call for gun bans and strict gun control at a time when it was politically unpopular. Further, the scheme would involve a made-up statistic, out of thin air–90%–which then had to be proved by using civilian gun retailers along the southern border as unsuspecting pawns to walk U.S. guns into Mexico by ATF agents, straw purchasers, and others with connections to Mexican drug cartels.
And the evidence points to the fact that Hillary Clinton was one of the original Administration officials who was ‘in the loop’ on the scheme from the very beginning.
QUESTION:
Why hasn’t Congressman Issa investigated this part of the criminal enterprise also?
http://www.infowars.com/breaking-new-evidence-shows-hillary-clinton-masterminded-fast-and-furious/