Congressman Darrell Issa, as well as a growing and bi-partisan group in Congress now await the completed Inspector General investigative report on the failed and deadly Fast and Furious gunrunning operation that was overseen by the Obama Department of Justice. The first public hearing since that investigation’s release is now scheduled for next week.
EXCERPT:
… The Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, told Issa in a recent letter that after 17 months of investigating the botched gun-tracking operation, the lengthy report would not be ready for public release until later this week, at the earliest.
Horowitz assured Issa the report was going through the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) standard finalization process.
“The OIG, and solely the OIG, is determining what information will be included in the unredacted final report, and it will contain all information that we deem relevant,” wrote Horowitz in his letter to Issa last Friday.
He also said his office was talking with lawyers at the White House about any information that could be protected under President Obama’s assertion of executive privilege.
Obama asserted executive privilege over certain sets of documents that Issa had subpoenaed from Attorney General Eric Holder. After refusing to turn the documents over — citing precedents regarding separation of powers and congressional oversight limits — Issa and House Republicans voted to place Holder in contempt of Congress.
The new hearing has been scheduled for next Wednesday. LINK
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I URGE ALL ULSTERMANREPORT.COM READERS TO WATCH NEXT WEEK’S HEARING IF YOU ARE ABLE. THIS HEARING COULD GIVE STRONG INDICATION OF WHETHER OR NOT THIS SCANDAL WILL PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION, OR BE PUSHED ASIDE AND IGNORED UNTIL AFTER NOVEMBER…
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AND FROM LAST WEEK DURING A BRIEF INTERVIEW WITH WHI – ONCE AGAIN THEY DELIVER THE GOODS:
UM: I really appreciated the heads up on the ad blitz info you gave out last week. Got something you can share about what’s coming up now?
WHI: Sure. Watch for DOJ-related.
UM: Dog and pony show or the real deal?
WHI: Don’t know. Out of my hands. Told you that a while ago.
WHITE HOUSE INSIDER: Bill Clinton vs Valerie Jarrett Backstage At DNC
Well, if the very recent information on the Gallup Poll controversy is any indication I am inclined to believe that these criminals at the DOJ will be exonerated. Remember the New Black Panthers voting intimidation?
We’ll just have to pray that some people in Congress grow a spine. Thank you UM and WHI fo the update.
Given the situation, this report will clearly misguide, redirect, obfuscate and point blame elsewhere. It’s just a question of tearing down the facades and the clever invocations of executive privilege, where the document’s contents veer in the direction of Holder’s and Obama’s responsibility.
Culpability will be obvious. The facts already prove that.
The one thing we’ll probably see is historical revisionism, with regard to a few of the (already established) facts. You know Issa and company will be looking for this stuff, so the focus will be demonstrating to all that the investigation is a complete sham and additional evidence of a cover up.
So the OIG will solely be making the decision of what is relevant, yet they are coordinating with the White House regarding executive privilege? I bet a beer it’s an eighteen month white wash. There shall be no justice regarding F&F.
Al laws shall be applied equally, yet I guess I may conclude some are more equal. I decree myself and everyone else more equal.
this is how the DNC keepe there criminal in the WH.Maybe the whi can use this.They are certifing obama under the 14th amendment not article 2….
http://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/dnc-perjures-themselves-by-signing-obamas-nomination-form/
And this just makes me want to pop heads like zits! If you need an amendment to “become” a natural born citizen then you AREN’T one! Damn, how much more clear can that be?
I urge all UMreport.com readers who plan on watching next week’s hearing not to get your hopes up.
Obviously the report will be a sanitized, fictional version of the truth.
The challenge is how to get Team Zero to step in its own gum.
(Maybe there a few smart people out there other than flying pigs.)
And timing will be everything.
Obviously, the only scandal here is all you racists who have been demanding to know the truth and initiated this whole facade of an “investigation” … /sarc
LOL, O.K., I’ll bite…
Help me understand why we’re racists?
And, help me understand why demanding the truth is a scandal?
What facade? What’s *REALLY* going on?
Oh, sorry!
Read your comment too quickly! Didn’t see the …/sarc
Yawn. This is going no where because the Rinos don’t want it to. They only want it as a distraction for the other side. The Rinos consider F&F just as much an impediment to their shot at POWER.
They are all gross and my sympathy goes out to the Terry family.
Well, as ATB says….”KABUKI !” and WHISTLEBLOWER, “Dog and pony show !”
I keep referring back to what DHS Insider said months ago:
‘Fast and Furious’ is huge and leads right to the White House and ‘State,’ but according to my sources, won’t be an issue because the politicians in charge of the investigations have been compromised and threatened. Napolitano knows everything about Fast and Furious and is working with Holder to impede the investigations. She’s using her political clout. But damage control had taken time and a toll,” added my source.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/48202
Even if a miracle happened and they found a “non-activist”, “non-threatened” judge, etc. and prosecuted, it would take months.
The good news is this “event” is widely known and suspicious…just like the birth certificate, social security card deal. As for justice being done, it’s obvious it cannot be done until the criminals that run this Admin.are evicted and we have real brave, selfless patriotic people that are a good majority in the Senate (and House of course) and/or where even the Establishment will be FORCED to act with some kind of national crisis/leak that everyone knows about & can’t be spun. They have to be trapped with no escape.
An honest investigation of Fast and Furious would open a window into drug running and money laundering operations that no one in Washington will open.
Didn’t the DOJ already get 30 days to review (and sanitize) the IG report? Now, the IG’s office is “talking with lawyers at the White House about any information that could be protected under President Obama’s assertion of executive privilege.”
And the IG sends a letter to Issa saying, “The OIG, and solely the OIG, is determining what information will be included in the unredacted final report, and it will contain all information that we deem relevant.” Really? I wonder how much the OIG will leave out of the report after Holder and the White House have done their own editing, redacting, and “persuading.”
If and when Team Zero massages this report into the pap expected, it makes the case of whitewash – coverup – and lack of transparency from the ‘most transparent administration in the entire galaxy.’
The absence of damning material evidence will defy credibility. There is NO WAY any objective report would NOT contain some damaging findings. No way. The dullest of the dull amongst the great unwashed would smell fish – even a guppy’s worth of stink.
Will Republicans have the guts to run with it?
Doubt if this will get much coverage, but another weapons cache found in northern Mexico possibly linked to F&F. Still speculation, but everytime it makes the news it is good news.
http://www.examiner.com/article/mexican-weapons-cache-uncovered-may-be-linked-to-fast-furious
“Mr. President…uh…the homework your dog ate? You know, THAT homework. Well, the dog threw up, and they’ve been able to piece together all the work that you did. I’m sure you’ll be relieved.”
Just from what is in this article, there is trouble in paradise. Or at least there should be.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/11/exclusive-long-awaited-furious-report-spreads-blame-across-agencies/?test=latestnews
Of course they will spread the blame…further and further away from Barry and the White House. I haven’t seen so much manure spread in politics since the Warren Commision and the 9-11 Commission. This administration is rank with the stench of ‘spread it around’ cover-ups and blame. That stiff backbone Biden spoke of Barry having, wasn’t his spine. It was just his big stick. I am so sick of all the LIES. May God strike them dead in their tracks for the next lie they tell.