“Operation Fast and Furious” on The Daily Caller
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms may have knowingly allowed thousands of guns to be trafficked across the U.S.–Mexican border in the botched Operation Fast and Furious, but don’t worry! The agency is busy keeping Americans safe from the scourge of cigarette trafficking. (more)
Republican Reps. Jason Chaffetz of Utah and Trey Gowdy of South Carolina fired off a letter to Barack Obama last Friday demanding to know what the president knew about Operation Fast and Furious and when he knew it. (more)
1.) Another GOP debate already? — Didn’t they just have one? How many is this now, 157? Oh well. TheDC’s Jamie Weinstein reports: (more)
House oversight committee ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings hasn’t officially followed up on his public calls for Attorney General Eric Holder to testify before the committee on Operation Fast and Furious. (more)
The Senate passed an amendment Tuesday to block any federal funding to programs similar to Operation Fast and Furious — the controversial program that allowed guns to be walked across the U.S.–Mexican border and into the hands of violent drug cartels. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Tuesday to effectively block the Justice Department from undertaking gun-smuggling probes like the flawed “Operation Fast and Furious” aimed at breaking up networks running guns to Mexican drug cartels but that lost track of hundreds of the weapons, some of which were used to commit crimes in Mexico and the United States. (more)
House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa said Sunday that he thinks there may have been a third gun at the scene of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s murder. (more)
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley told The Daily Caller on Thursday that he’ll call for the resignation of the highest-level government official who signed off on Operation Fast and Furious. At this point, though, he’s not sold on whether that person is Attorney General Eric Holder. (more)
The House Oversight Committee has issued a subpoena to the Department of Justice demanding documents pertaining to the Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. (more)
HANOVER, N.H. — Closing the loop on what ABC News called a “testy exchange” Monday afternoon, Mitt Romney’s camp answered a question after Tuesday night’s economic debate that the former Massachusetts governor dodged — at length — in Hooksett, N.H., the day before. (more)
HANOVER, N.H. — During an impromptu exchange in the lobby of the Hanover Inn Tuesday, on the campus of Dartmouth College, former Pennsylvania senator and current Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum responded to a question that his fellow candidate Mitt Romney memorably ducked on Monday. (more)
Although several members of Congress have now called on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign over Operation Fast and Furious, he appeared to dismiss the congressional investigation into the program as not “important” when reporters asked about it on Tuesday. (more)
One of President Obama’s former protectors, Daniel Bongino, an ex-Secret Service agent and currently a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Maryland, told The Daily Caller he’d like to see Justice Department reform so “debacles” like Operation Fast and Furious don’t happen again. (more)
HOOKSETT, N.H. — At a campaign stop Monday afternoon, former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney dodged a yes-or-no question about whether or not Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over the “Operation Fast and Furious” scandal. (more)
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa fired back at Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, saying he’s responsible for what transpired during Operation Fast and Furious. (more)
HENNIKER, N.H. — Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman, told reporters after a town hall meeting Monday morning that embattled Attorney General Eric Holder should resign if the full story of Operation Fast and Furious confirms the facts already presented to the public and to congressional investigators. (more)
House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa announced plans Sunday to issue more subpoenas to Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department in the ongoing Operation Fast and Furious congressional investigation. (more)
High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF’s Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in the Mexican drug wars. (more)
Rep. Paul Gosar jabbed back at Attorney General Eric Holder after he swiped at him and other congressional Operation Fast and Furious investigators in a late Friday letter. Gosar told The Daily Caller that “In Main Street America, you’d never get away with” dissembling about the gun-walking program, and that in different circumstances, ”the people who’ve been responsible would’ve already been in jail.” Gosar also added his name to the short but growing list of those in Congress calling for the attorney general’s immediate resignation. (more)
Attorney General Eric Holder snapped back at the House oversight committee Friday afternoon, saying his testimony before a May 3 House Judiciary Committee hearing was “truthful and accurate” in what appears to be a Friday evening news dump. (more)
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