ShortTimer
JBHFrom HotAir:
Issa and the GOP leadership have lately been putting the pressure on Attorney General Eric Holder and the wider Justice Department to comply more thoroughly with a 22-part subpoena from last October, even threatening to find Holder in contempt of Congress for dragging his feet. The DOJ has insisted that they’re doing everything they possibly can to comply with the subpoena while protecting the security and integrity (cough cough, gasp, sorry, I choked on my own word there for a second) of their department. But, the back and forth continues, and now Issa says he has acquired still more evidence that senior DOJ officials were well acquainted with the gunwalking going on as part of Operation Fast & Furious.
Except, via Sipsey Street:
Deputy Attorney General James Cole said in a letter on Tuesday to Mr. Boehner and other House Republican leaders that their staffs in recent weeks “have had a number of constructive conversations” that held out the prospect of a “mutually acceptable resolution of these issues.” He said those conversations “stand in contrast” with the tone Mr. Issa had adopted, including in a letter of his own on Tuesday.
From Oversight And Reform’s channel:
We’ve known all of this for a while. DOJ and the White House both knew and were involved, Boehner is a flip-flopping coward who won’t stand for anything, Issa is pushing the issue (or at the very least playing the role of pushing the issue), and the Republican congress doesn’t have the guts to move forward against a clear-cut criminal conspiracy that goes to the highest levels.
