Issa invites questions while staffers ignore them

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., addressed apparent stonewalling by the Republican leadership in pursuing a contempt of Congress citation against Attorney General Eric Holder on last night’s “On the Record” with Greta Van Susteren.  Although  Holder has not produced subpoenaed documents and information demanded by the committee, Van Susteren asked Issa about rumors that House Speaker John Boehner “isn’t wild about this,” prompting the chairman to  detail his strategy for building Congressional consensus, including  reaching across the aisle to concerned Democrats for support.

“We’ve sent out to every member of Congress 64 pages laying out the case for contempt.” Issa explained. “We’ve asked them do they have any questions…”

Issa is referring to the contempt citation draft the Committee sent out on May 3, and while it lends itself to many questions, one asked by Gun Rights Examiner of staffers has gone ignored after repeated requests:…(Con’t)

 

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Boehner Is Stalling Holder Contempt Citation On Fast And Furious

[TWG Note: Well, ain't this a crock?  What Boehner, Cantor and McCarthy had best get through their thick skulls is that their LACK  of action and lack of spine on this issue will get them yanked off their thrones faster than they can cry 'wee-wee' all the way home.  This is indicative of an elite cabal of finger wagging, holier-than-thou, throne-squatting a-holes who aren't one bit interested in doing the jobs they've been entrusted (and paid well) to do for the American people.  They're too wrapped up in their own selfishness to care one bit about JUSTICE, and it's quite apparent they consider themselves to be above the laws of this land.  Time for a "Courtesy Flush".  Fire every last one of those spineless, selfish crooks.]

 

If Darrell Issa has any thoughts of the full House voting on his Oversight Committee’s citation of contempt against Eric Holder, he will first have to clear the idea with the Attorney General’s staunchest allies and political defenders—Republican Speaker John Boehner, Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Republican Majority Whip, Kevin McCarthy.

Upon the Speaker’s office being provided a draft of the citation last week, a spokesman for the Republican leadership said “While there are very legitimate arguments to be made in favor of such an action, no decision has been made to move forward with one by the Speaker or by House Republican leaders.” (1)

But now it appears these stalwart souls have finally made that decision. They will “…slow [Issa’s] drive to hold the attorney general in contempt over the controversial Fast and Furious program…” for a period of “a month or even longer…” Apparently a year’s worth of testimony and documentation linking Obama Regime operatives to hundreds of deaths and the walking of some 2000 weapons across the Mexican border just haven’t been sufficient to convince Speaker Boehner that something is amiss. (2)

 

CONTINUE READING: http://www.westernjournalism.com/its-official-john-boehner-is-stalling-fast-and-furious-contempt-citation-of-eric-holder/

Congressman Darrell Issa: Second Amendment Hero

 

Gun Owners of America

Last week, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a 44-page memorandum to members of his committee outlining the instances in which Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which Rep. Issa chairs.    In the eyes of GOA’s membership nationwide, this signals that Darrell Issa is a Constitutional and American hero.    Eric Holder and his subordinates in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) have lied under oath.  In fact, they even sent a letter to the congressional committee investigating Fast and Furious (the gun running scandal between the U.S. and Mexico) essentially admitting that they lied.   Appointees in the Obama administration such as Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and Janet Napolitano have historically shown themselves to be radically anti-gun.  And the Fast and Furious debacle is just the latest instance of this.  That’s why pro-Second Amendment Americans need to join in the fight to help Issa get rid of Eric Holder as the Attorney General.   H.Res. 490 is a resolution which sends a message loud and clear that Congress has lost confidence in the Attorney General.  Over 100 members of Congress have already signed H.Res. 490 (see the list here).  If your Representative is one of them, please contact and thank him or her for helping.    If your representative has not signed on to H.Res. 490, contact them and demand to know why he or she has refused to do so.  Ask your congressman if they are anti-gun or if they condone lying to Congress?  Do they condone the U.S. sending guns to Mexican drug cartels who turn around and kill U.S. law enforcement and Mexican law enforcement, which is exactly what has happened under Eric Holder’s watch.   ACTION:   Darrell Issa is doing a monumental job for Americans and the Constitution, and he needs your help to bring his colleagues into accord.  Please email Congress, thanking your Representative if he’s signed onto H.Res. 490, but taking him to task if he hasn’t.    There are two different letters (one saying “thank you” and one saying “cosponsor the resolution”).  Click here to contact your Representatives, the appropriate letter will be automatically selected.

BREAKING: CONFRONTATION BETWEEN ALASKA GUN STORE AND ATF

Anthony Martin

Conservative Examiner

Breaking information sent to this reporter moments ago via email from a contact in Anchorage, Alaska indicates that a local gun store has refused to comply with an order from the ATF to turn over to the agency the official ‘Bound Book’ that firearms retailers are required to keep on site on customers and their purchases, photo I.D.s, and background checks.

The store’s refusal has provoked a confrontation with the ATF, which claims that the Bound Book is ‘their property.’

An initial report was published here yesterday concerning this new illegal activity on the part of the ATF. 

According to a memo from the Anchorage Second Amendment Task Force, the Great Northern Guns store in Anchorage was asked to give their Bound Book to the ATF so it could be copied in its totality. The store refused, citing their legal rights and the fact that to do so would be a violation of the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986.

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AG Eric Holder: His public campaign to “really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”

[TWG Note: THIS is why that treasonist pig implemented the "Fast & Furious" scheme.  Create a crisis, so he can take guns away from the people who didn't do it.   WHY is he still squatting on the AG throne?  FIRE AND CONVICT HIM ALREADY!]

 

Breitbart.com has uncovered video from 1995 of then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announcing a public campaign to ”really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”

Holder was addressing the Woman’s National Democratic Club. In his remarks, broadcast by CSPAN 2, he explained that he intended to use anti-smoking campaigns as his model to “change the hearts and minds of people in Washington, DC” about guns.

“What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes.”

Holder added that he had asked advertising agencies in the nation’s capital to assist by making anti-gun ads rather than commercials “that make me buy things that I don’t really need.” He had also approached local newspapers and television stations, he said, asking them to devote prime space and time, respectively, to his anti-gun campaign……

 

CONTINUE READING:  http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/18/Holder-Fight-Guns-Like-Cigarettes

ATF agents put careers on line to report management abuses

David Codrea

Gun Rights Examiner

 

“It is our intention to assist in restoring integrity, accountability and responsibility of ATF management and employee confidence in ATF and Main Justice,” Special Agent Vince Cefalu and a coalition of current and retired agency employees wrote in an initiative proposal sent—at his own expense—to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Acting Director, to the Attorney General and to the entire Senate Judiciary Committee,  before Fast and Furious “gunwalking’ allegations became widely known, and before the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. This is one of the documents Cefalu provided to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., reported yesterday by Gun Rights Examiner.

“At the heart of many of these matters, the plain and simple fact is that managers, legal counsel and members of the staff at Internal Affairs are systematically giving false oral and written testimony, concealing waste fraud and abuse, exercising abuse of their authority, both real and perceived, reprisal/retaliation and discrimination on the part of ATF managers who are not being held accountable and responsible for their intentionally harmful actions,” Cefalu explained. 

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Shocker! (NOT) Feinstein Failed To Act On ATF Corruption and Absue Evidence

Veteran agent: Feinstein did not act on ATF abuse, corruption evidence
March 15, 2012 David Codrea, Gun Rights Examiner
Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., was informed of management corruption and abuse issues at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) before allegations of “gunwalking … Read more ►

Don’t Count On The Constitution Of The United States of America To Stop The UN Gun Grabbing Scheme.

[TWG Note: I've been screaming about this very real threat for years.  One has only to read the UN's "Operational Guide To The IDDRS" to see that the tracks have already been laid to "Disarm, Detain, Demobolize and Re-socialize" the American people, INCLUDING ELIMINATION should we demonstrate unwillingness to cooperate with their evil schemes.   READ IT.   SHOW YOU GIVE A DAMN AND DO SOME DAMNED HOMEWORK OF YOUR OWN. They ARE working on disarming the American people, and they WILL attempt it very soon, thanks to billary, obama, holder and the rest of that horrid regime.  They MUST disarm us in order to accomplish their coup.  They cannot proceed if we keep our guns.  You had better believe they are not going to give up this dirty rotten scheme against our Human Rights.]

MANASQUAN, N.J.— “There is a widespread misunderstanding on the part
of American gun-owners, evidenced in gun blogs and in commentaries on
articles dealing with the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT),” researchers Paul
Gallant, Sherry Gallant, Alan Chwick and Joanne D. Eisen report in an
AmmoLand paper filed yesterday.

“The crux of this misunderstanding,” they write, “is that, since there
are checks and balances in our Constitution, and since the
Constitution clearly states that ratification of a treaty can only
occur ‘provided two thirds of the Senators present concur,’ this is
almost impossible to come about.”

Not necessarily, the researchers argue, citing “carefully documented
proof that ratification of an international treaty can occur —and can
be made binding to U.S. citizens— without any Senate action at all!”

CONTINUE READING: http://m.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/researchers-say-don-t-count-on-constitution-to-stop-arms-trade-treaty

Fast and Furious: 100 Congressmen call for Holder resignation

Treasonist Eric Holder…

March 7, 2012 Anthony Martin, Conservative Examiner

After a lull in news that seemed to go on for over a month concerning the Congressional investigation into the Fast and Furious scandal, today six more Congressmen announced that they are calling for … Read more ►

DOJ not only cabinet department deflecting Issa inquiry

David Codrea

Gun Rights Examiner

Add the Department of Energy to the list of Obama administration offices publicly bemoaning compliance requirements arising from House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform investigation requests. In response to a criticism by Chairman Darrell Issa that providing paper copies instead of electronic documents wastes taxpayer money, an  administration source dismissed his concerns.

“In reality, the VAST majority of the cost of complying isn’t the printing, but rather the enormous amount of attorney time that it takes to collect, review and prepare the responses,” a Friday report in The Hill quotes an administration source replying. “The Department’s response has required thousands of hours of staff time from at least 12 separate DOE offices.”

Two things stand out: the source is unidentified, and the source equates compliance with lawful congressional oversight with “waste.”

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