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June 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Republicans have suggested that the administration’s failure to produce the
documents suggests it is hiding embarrassing details. Democrats see the
sweeping demand for documents as a politically motivated attempt to
embarrass Obama ahead of the November vote.
House Speaker John Boehner quickly questioned whether Obama’s move means the
White House, and not just the Justice Department, was involved in decisions
over Fast and Furious.
“The administration has always insisted that wasn’t the case. Were they
lying, or are they now bending the law to hide the truth?” said
Boehner’s press secretary Brendan Buck.
The White House reacted sharply. “Instead of creating jobs or
strengthening the middle class, congressional Republicans are spending their
time on a politically motivated, taxpayer-funded election-year fishing
expedition,” White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said
Wednesday.
In Fast and Furious, federal agents from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives in Arizona abandoned the agency’s usual practice of
intercepting all weapons they believed to be illicitly purchased. Instead,
the goal was to track such weapons to high-level arms traffickers, who had
long eluded prosecution, and to dismantle their networks.
Such so-called gun-walking has long been barred by Justice Department policy,
but federal agents in Arizona experimented with it in at least two
investigations during the George W. Bush administration.
The agents in Fast and Furious lost track of many of the weapons. Two of the
guns were found at the scene of the slaying of US border agent Brian Terry.
The House committee has turned its attention from the details of the operation
and is now seeking documents that would show how the department headquarters
responded to the committee’s investigation.
“If we receive no documents, we’ll go forward” with a contempt vote,
Issa told reporters.
What a contempt vote would mean is not clear for Holder, who would not be
prosecuted. The vote is a way Congress can try to force a witness to
testify.
If the committee votes to recommend that Holder be held in contempt of
Congress, its recommendation would go next to the full House for a vote.
Historically, at some point Congress and president negotiate agreements
because both sides want to avoid a court battle that could narrow either the
reach of executive privilege or Congress’ subpoena power.
Source: agencies
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