Fast and Furious

Darrell Issa Fights Subpoenas After Chastising Eric Holder For Doing The Same Thing

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.29.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who for more than seven months has been chastising Attorney General Eric Holder for failing to comply with...

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GOP Members Wary Of Controversial Issa Measure

The Hill | Posted 05.22.2012

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) might not have the votes in his own committee to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress....

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Boehner: 'All Options Are On The Table' In Contentious Investigation

AP | Posted 05.19.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner says "all options are on the table" in the ongoing congressional investigation into the "Fast and Furious" op...

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Issa Rejected After Making 'Unwarranted' Move

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.16.2012

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The Justice Department said “the core questions” have been answered in the ongoing “Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking controversy, rejecting l...

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Holder, Fast and Furious, and the Double Standard

Lanny Davis | Posted 05.04.2012

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Attorney General Eric Holder has been the subject of vicious partisan personal attacks on his integrity over the failed "gun walking" operation, "Fast and Furious." The hypocrisy of the double standard by congressional Republicans is obvious.

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Issa Wants Contempt Vote, But Boycotted When Dems Wanted One

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.04.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is threatening a vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Con...

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Is Rihanna Ready To Get 'Fast & Furious'?

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 04.30.2012

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"Battleship" hasn't even debuted in the U.S. yet, but that's not stopping Rihanna from continuing her big screen takeover. According to U.K. paper The...

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House Committee Prepares Severe Measure Against Eric Holder

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 04.27.2012

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WASHINGTON — A House Committee is preparing a contempt citation against Attorney General Eric Holder as it applies pressure for more documents f...

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GSA Hearings An Attempt To Label Obama 'Big Spender,' GOP Lawmaker Admits

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 04.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- After Republican lawmakers sought to tie the White House to the General Services Administration scandal, Rep. John Mica (R) on Tuesday c...

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Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right for Issa

Josh Horwitz | Posted 04.18.2012

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Why would a man in charge of an ostensibly independent, on-going investigation into the Obama administration appear before a special interest group that is openly hostile to our president and engage in a scathing attack on him, his attorney general and the Department of Justice?

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'Fast And Furious' Gun Ring Investigation Gets Guilty Plea

AP | JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 04.09.2012

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PHOENIX -- A man who bought two rifles found at the scene of the fatal shooting of a federal agent near the Arizona-Mexico border pleaded guilty Thurs...

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Holder Prepared To Answer Questions In Gunrunning Probe

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 04.04.2012

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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder says he expects to be interviewed by investigators looking into Operation Fast and Furious, a flawed J...

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Issa: We Are Moving Toward 'Contempt'

Examiner.com | Posted 03.23.2012

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Congressman Darrell Issa told Fox News Thursday morning that he is moving slowly and methodically, building a case for Congress to vote on a contempt ...

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Issa: 'We've Been Lied To'

Examiner.com | Posted 03.17.2012

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California Congressman Darrell Issa has evidently gotten his “second wind” and in a Thursday evening interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper regard...

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Daily Caller Reporter Gets Into Email War With DNC

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.15.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A private spat between the Democratic National Committee's communications shop and a reporter for the Daily Caller, a conservative-leani...

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Calderon's Billboard of Crime Guns, and What It Means

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 04.23.2012

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The solution to gun trafficking to Mexico is also the solution to gun trafficking within the U.S.: stronger federal gun laws.

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Attorney General Holder Denies Fast and Furious Cover-Up

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 02.02.2012

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder denied the Justice Department was impeding a Republican probe into Operation Fast and Furious, the botched gun-traff...

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Issa Battling With Holder Over Key Documents

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 04.03.2012

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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder clashed with Republicans at a House committee hearing Thursday over demands that the Justice Departmen...

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Bold Issa Claim Rejected

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 04.02.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday rejected an assertion by a House committee chairman that top Justice officials are covering up ...

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Dems Make New Claim On 'Fast An Furious'

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 04.01.2012

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WASHINGTON — Democrats looking into Operation Fast and Furious say a yearlong investigation has turned up no evidence that the flawed gun smuggl...

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Darrell Issa: Department Of Justice 'Has Blood On Their Hands'

Posted 03.27.2012

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R- Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, says that the Department of Justice has "blood on their hands" following the...

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First Convictions From Fast And Furious Gun Probe

AP | By JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 01.24.2012

PHOENIX -- Two men pleaded guilty to buying guns that were destined to be smuggled into Mexico, the first convictions in the federal government's botc...

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Darrell Issa Forces Federal Prosecutor To Testify In Fast And Furious Investigation

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 03.20.2012

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WASHINGTON — A House committee looking into the flawed gun smuggling investigation called Operation Fast and Furious has subpoenaed a federal pr...

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My 2011 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 2]

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.24.2012

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This year we turn to the Democrats to find the winner of Destined For Political Stardom. If Elizabeth Warren manages to wrest Teddy Kennedy's old Senate seat away from the Republican usurper, she will indeed be on the road to Democratic stardom.

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FBI Director Challenges Top Republican's Theory On 'Fast And Furious'

HuffingtonPost.com | Mollie Reilly | Posted 12.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller denied that his agency attempted to cover up evidence related to Operation Fast and Furious, denouncing Rep....

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