Contents tagged with gunrunning
Filed in: US Constitution | by Jay Sekulow | 10:22 AM Feb. 1, 2012
AG Holder to be Grilled Over Fast & Furious "Cover-up"
There's another showdown underway on Capitol Hill. This time, Attorney General Holder is faced with the most Congressional pressure yet, as he continues to refuse to take responsibility for Operation Fast & Furious, a botched Justice Department gunrunning program that left more than 2,000 weapons in the hands of Mexican drug gangs, and resulted in the death of 300 Mexican nationals - and one U.S. Border Patrol agent. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has had it with Continue Reading...
Filed in: US Constitution | by Jay Sekulow | 4:47 PM Jan. 26, 2012
More DOJ Dodging over "Fast & Furious"
We've told you about the decision by Patrick Cunningham, a top Justice Department official in Arizona, to plead the 5th Amendment and refuse to testify in an upcoming Congressional hearing about Operation Fast & Furious - a botched Justice Department gunrunning program that claimed the life of a U.S. Border Patrol agent after weapons ended up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Now, Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Continue Reading...
Filed in: US Constitution | by Jay Sekulow | 1:33 PM Jan. 24, 2012
Arizona Turns Up Heat on DOJ Over "Fast & Furious"
Arizona is turning up the heat on the deadly gunrunning program known as Operation Fast & Furious, the failed Department of Justice plan that allowed weapons into the hands of Mexican drug cartels and brought about the death of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent. The Arizona legislature has just created a special panel to investigate the program to determine whether federal officials broke any Arizona laws in allowing the gun sales to go forward and to see if state laws need updating to prevent fut Continue Reading...
Filed in: US Constitution | by Matthew Clark | 5:07 PM Jan. 19, 2012
Congress Subpoenas Key DOJ Official on Fast & Furious
Representative Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has subpoenaed a key Justice Department official regarding the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal. President Obama’s Justice Department and Attorney General Holder have continued to stonewall and hide the truth about this ill-conceived program that gave thousands guns to Mexican drug cartels and left one U.S. Border Patrol agent dead. The Hill has the latest: Issa … issued a subpoena fo Continue Reading...
Filed in: US Constitution | by Matthew Clark | 2:45 PM Dec. 6, 2011
Obama Administration Must Cooperate with Congress on Fast and Furious
The fallout over the “Fast and Furious” gunrunning scandal that has plagued Attorney General Eric Holder has just taken a dramatic shift. Not only did the Justice Department lose hundreds of guns to Mexican drug cartels in an ill-advised and ultimately disastrous gunrunning operation that led to the death of at least one border patrol agent, but there are new allegations that federal law enforcement officials actually assisted Mexican drug cartels in laundering millions of dollars. Continue Reading...
