Originally Posted By miker84:
Ah, blast from the past.

I'm gonna miss sitting behind him at congressional hearings while whispering "you killed Brian Terry". In this AP photo, he is asking his staff "Who keeps saying that?" while his security detail chuckles about me identifying their sidearms.

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Originally Posted By LRRPF52:
Does anybody think Fast & Furious and the recent Judge's orders to turn over documents played a role in bAG Holder resigning?

What a dirtbag this guy is.  Crime has certainly paid in his life/career.

Originally Posted By JPN:
Yep.  The prosecution will no longer find me to be someone they want on a jury, for a gun law violation case.

So you caught a serial killer because he slipped up  and had too many foreign made parts in his homemade AK?

Not guilty.  Get back to me when you have enough evidence to put him on trial for killing those 40 people..

Originally Posted By LRRPF52:
Does anybody think Fast & Furious and the recent Judge's orders to turn over documents played a role in bAG Holder resigning?

What a dirtbag this guy is.  Crime has certainly paid in his life/career.

Originally Posted By R_Steel:
Eric the Commie Red is breaking the law again.

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"In an action not seen in the U.S. Department of Justice in recent history, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday refused to comply with a court order to release a Vaughn Index of Operation Fast and Furious documents. Members of a House committee are requesting the federal judge in the case to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of court for failing to comply with a deadline a judge set to turn over documents related to Operation Fast and Furious, according to a federal court motion on Thursday.

As per a 1974 court ruling, a Vaughn Index must: (1) identify each document withheld; (2) state the statutory exemption claimed; and (3) explain how disclosure would damage the interests protected by the claimed exemption.

On July 18, Judge John Bates ordered Holder and the Department of Justice to produce the documents list by October 1. He denied a motion by the Holder's DOJ that the agency be given more than an extra month, until November 3, to produce the Vaughn index. According to attorneys, Judge Bates voiced his concern that the Justice Department’s request showed they were “at best... slow to react to this Court’s previous [July 18, 2014] Order. At worst, it means the Department has ignored that Order until now.”

"Here we have the nation's top law enforcement officer telling federal judges NO to their rulings. This is one more incident that displays the lawlessness of this administration," said former NYPD police detective Michael Snopes. "If a cop dared do what Holder's done he'd be cooling his heels in a jail cell."

Since Holder chose to ignore the judge's order, in a legal motion filed Thursday afternoon, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee asked U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson to fine Holder personally if he doesn’t comply with an order requiring him to turn over non-privileged documents responsive to a House committee subpoena by Oct. 1. Judge Bates may also be set to charge Holder with contempt of court for failing to release the Vaughn List to a watchdog group Judicial Watch, as well.

House attorneys are also advising the federal court to jail the attorney general until he abides by the court ruling and releases the requested documents.

“Should the Court determine that the Attorney General has violated that Order, the Court should impose on the Attorney General an appropriate penalty to coerce his compliance with the August 20 Order, including an escalating daily monetary fine against Eric H. Holder, Jr., to be paid by Mr. Holder out of his personal assets, converting to incarceration if the payment of daily monetary fines does not produce compliance within a reasonable period of time,” House Counsel Kerry Kircher and other lawyers wrote in the new motion.

"It is a very real possibility that Eric Holder is stepping down because the revelation of what's contained in the Fast and Furious documents may be detrimental to his life after serving Obama, or quite possibly those documents no longer exist," former attorney and political consultant Michael Barker told the Examiner.

"There is a very real possibility that the Justice Department's documents may have fallen into the same 'black hole' where Lois Lerner's IRS documents ended up," added former police investigator and corporate security consultant Joseph Warren, Jr.  "

http://www.examiner.com/article/breaking-holder-defies-federal-court-ruling-and-refuses-to-obey-judge-s-order

And

"Attorney General Eric Holder should be held in contempt of court for refusing to release “Fast and Furious” documents in line with a judge’s order — and even given jail time if necessary, lawmakers said.

Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee requested U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson to fine Mr. Holder if he doesn’t comply with her own order issued back in August — the one where she said he couldn’t claim executive privilege to keep private certain documents related to the federal gun-running program, “Operation Fast and Furious,” Politico reported."   -end snip-

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/3/lawmakers-lawyers-suggest-fines-jail-time-eric-hol/

The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch is suing the Phoenix Police Department for records on a July 29, 2013 gang-style assault to see if weapons used were sold in the Justice Department’s ill-fated Fast and Furious case.

...

The new Judicial Watch lawsuit seeks records on the July 2013 shootout in an apartment building that left two people wounded.

According to Judicial Watch,

Three weeks following the assault, four suspects were apprehended in a raid conducted jointly by Phoenix police detectives and investigators from the DHS. According to press reports, “numerous rifles and handguns” were found during the service of the warrants. The Arizona Public Records Law suit was filed in the Superior Court for the State of Arizona in and for the County of Maricopa. Judicial Watch believes the reports detail that a weapon or weapons used in the assault are connected to the federal government’s Fast and Furious gunrunning operation.

Originally Posted By miker84:
Ah, blast from the past.

I'm gonna miss sitting behind him at congressional hearings while whispering "you killed Brian Terry". In this AP photo, he is asking his staff "Who keeps saying that?" while his security detail chuckles about me identifying their sidearms.

<a href="http://s588.photobucket.com/user/miker84/media/ARFCOM/AP1112081680.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss328/miker84/ARFCOM/AP1112081680.jpg</a>.

Documents obtained through a lawsuit recently issued against the City of Phoenix by government watchdog Judicial Watch reveal a weapon from the Department of Justice's Operation Fast and Furious was used to injure two people in a 2013 gang-style assault on an apartment complex. When the incident occurred and during investigation afterward, police worked with federal law enforcement agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Department of Homeland Security, FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency in the case, raising suspicions the assault wasn't simply a typical, local gang shootout and prompted questions about the details of where the weapons that were used came from.

“Thanks to our lawsuit, Congress has been able to confirm what Judicial Watch already reported – that a Fast and Furious weapon was used in yet another violent crime that terrorized and injured residents of Phoenix,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “Our lawsuit against Phoenix exposed how the Obama cover-up of Fast and Furious is ongoing. Eric Holder’s Department of Justice is a mess. It has endangered the public and is engaged in an ongoing cover-up of its insanely reckless Fast and Furious gun-running operation. Judicial Watch appreciates the refreshing diligence of Senator Grassley and Congressman Issa in pursuing the truth about Fast and Furious.”

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio yesterday requested information from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry on the involvement by federal banking regulators in the multiple federal agency initiative known as “Operation Choke Point.” In Operation Choke Point, the Administration encouraged banks to terminate the accounts of legal businesses that they considered objectionable. While the administration has denied that it pressured banks to cease relationships with specific legal industries, the Committee found evidence that the FDIC encourage a target bank to terminate all relationships with payday lenders.

Chairman Issa and Chairman Jordan write in the letter to Federal Reserve Chair Yellen:

“The Federal Reserve Board is the primary supervisor and regulator of bank holding companies and state-chartered banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System.  In the course of its investigation of Operation Choke Point, the Committee has learned that federal regulators are pressuring banks to terminate relationships with legal yet disfavored industries, without regard to the legitimacy or risk profile of individual companies.”

WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley and Congressman Darrell Issa are again pushing the U.S. Department of Justice to be forthcoming about yet another gun found at the scene of a shooting in Arizona and connected to the ill-advised gunwalking strategy known as Operation Fast and Furious.

The shooting occurred at a Phoenix apartment complex and left two individuals wounded.  Grassley and Issa learned of the gun from documents obtained through a request under Arizona’s open records law by Judicial Watch.  According to the non-profit’s website, the organization “promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government.”  Grassley and Issa were able to confirm through documents obtained during their investigation that the weapon found at the scene was purchased by Sean Christopher Steward, who has since been convicted for his role in Operation Fast and Furious and is serving 9 years in prison.

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But Mr. Holder still reflected over the stronger legislation that never did pass.

“And the thought that we could not translate that horror into reasonable — I mean, really reasonable gun safety measures that were supported by the vast majority of the American people is for me something that I take personally as a failure,” he said, The Hill reported. “And something that I think we as a society should take as a failure — a glaring failure that I hope will ultimately be rectified.”

Originally Posted By Mister_H:
Don't forget that Bill Newell was "informally" reporting Fast and Furious details to the National Security Director for North America Kevin O'Reilly.

In my opinion they didn't pursue that fact as well as they should have.

Been here since page 1. Live posted during damn near every hearing.  Read most of the linked articles.

So I am decently well versed on the common knowledge info wrt F&F.  I got the feeling that IWK had juicier info than that.

Originally Posted By Frog_Legs:
I would have sworn today was the day the privilege log was supposed to be released.

Along with any documents not covered by that log.

Crickets.


Did the date change again. Am I misinformed? What in the Wild World of Sports is going on around here.

Originally Posted By Frog_Legs:
I would have sworn today was the day the privilege log was supposed to be released.

Along with any documents not covered by that log.

Crickets.


Did the date change again. Am I misinformed? What in the Wild World of Sports is going on around here.

Originally Posted By Mr_Psmith:
I wonder when the Judicial branch will realize they have zero authority in this brave new world?