Wednesday, June 8, 2011

IS OUR OWN DOJ AIDING AND ABETTING ATF IGNORING CONGRESSIONAL SUPOENAS?

Issa calls hearing on Justice Department possibly obstructing justice

Published: Updated: 12:12 AM 06/08/2011
By Matthew Boyle - The Daily Caller

California Republican Darrell Issa has called a hearing to look at the possibility that the Department of Justice (DOJ) may be committing obstruction of justice by ignoring a subpoena.

On April 1, Issa, House Oversight Committee chairman, subpoenaed all documents pertaining to two Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) programs, Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious.


Specifically, Issa was looking for documents and communications “relating to the genesis” of the programs and any information related to the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/07/issa-calls-hearing-on-justice-dep...

For those of you not familiar with Project Gunrunner. Here is a piece written by Michelle Malkin over
at The National Review:


Project Gunrunner 
Obama’s stimulus-funded border nightmare

Buried in Barack Obama’s failed trillion-dollar stimulus program was a $10 million bloody border racket that has now cost American lives. This goes far beyond the usual waste, fraud and abuse underwritten by progressive profligacy. It’s bloodstained government malfeasance overseen by anti-gun ideologues — and now anti-gun ideologue Attorney General Eric Holder will “investigate.”
Welcome to Project Gunrunner. Prepare for another Justice Department whitewash.

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