Oversight Chair Darrell Issa makes Justice Department perfidy part of the official Operation Fast & Furious record.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 29th at 09:30 PM  | 

A ways down below the fold is a description of a wiretap application by the Department of Justice (not the wiretap application itself) that had been provided to the House Oversight Committee by a whistle-blower, in response to Oversight’s investigation of the Justice Department’s Operation Fast & Furious debacle. The information found in it would normally be not accessible to anybody outside of the committee | Read More »

Reminder: the NRA will score Holder contempt vote.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 27th at 09:30 AM  | 

I’m not sure why I missed this at the time – the letter’s dated June 20th – but it’s official: “the NRA will consider this vote in [their] candidate evaluations.” That doesn’t guarantee a contempt charge passing the House, but only because a contempt charge was already guaranteed. For all the loose and charged rhetoric going around, if Speaker Boehner wasn’t going to let Oversight | Read More »

Eric Holder explains why he should be fired over Operation Fast & Furious.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 29th at 11:00 AM  | 

Inadvertently (via @vermontaigne): And here’s the transcript, just to reinforce the point: Congressman: Do you believe the program was a mistake? Holder: I think it was a good, it was a bad attempt at trying to deal with a very pernicious problem where guns are flowing from the United States to Mexico. It was, in its execution, in its conception, it was fundamentally flawed. But, | Read More »

Joe Lieberman inserts himself into Operation Fast & Furious.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 22nd at 03:20 PM  | 

Short version of the background: Operation Fast & Furious was a botched Department of Justice operation where the federal government catastrophically mucked up a program ostensibly designed to curtain illegal gun running to Mexico by… sustaining, encouraging, and enabling gun running to Mexico. Several hundred people have died as a result – including at least one American law enforcement official – and now questions are | Read More »

Fast & Furious Update: William Hoover claims ‘exit strategy’ meeting.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 14th at 11:47 PM  | 

Short version of Fast & Furious, for those who came in late: the federal government decided to try to fight the spread of illegal weapons sales among Mexican narco-terrorist gangs by… encouraging and facilitating the sale of illegal weapons to Mexican narco-terrorist gangs.  No, it did not end well: the guns that were illegally resold often got lost track of, right up to the point | Read More »