Rep. Darrell Issa on ‘Fast & Furious’: We Know We’re Being Gamed By Obama Administration (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 4:55 AM
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told Greta Van Susteren last night that the House Oversight Committee is being gamed by the Obama Administration. He also said he knew that most all of the weapons in the Fast and Furious program were in the hands of the Mexican cartels.
“We have confidential sources that have shown us why the administration’s representatives knew these weapons were going to the cartels. Not mostly, not maybe, but virtually all of them.”
More… The new ATF director B.Todd Jones appears to be complicit in the coverup.
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Militant Conservative commented:
I sent the rep a Csan video link of the assistant
AG admitting they were dire Ted by the president
to do this. Smoking gun.
Militant Conservative commented:
Cspan and lied too
Mrs. Grundy commented:
Militant Conservative, are you using a iPhone or something? No offense, but my God, learn to proofread.
daryl commented:
This head of ATF guy’s resigning sh*t ain’t gonna get it.
Definitely time to contact your Representatives and both Senators to demand full investigations of all involved, from Holder all the way to the top, and bust their balls.
bobdog commented:
Exactly what law in the US Code or the US Constitution exempts the Attorney General of the United States from prosecution for obstruction of justice?
NeoKong commented:
Issa does not live up to his reputation.Not by a longshot. The guy is all bark and no bite.
Holder has no intention of cooperating with Issa cause he knows not a damn thing will happen.
The whole Obama administration knows this.
The NLRB knows it. The FCC knows it. The Dept. of Energy knows it. The EPA knows it.
All you have to do is tell them (Congress) to piss off and they go away.
Granny commented:
#4 August 31, 2011 at 6:30 am
daryl commented:
This head of ATF guy’s resigning sh*t ain’t gonna get it.
Definitely time to contact your Representatives and both Senators to demand full investigations of all involved, from Holder all the way to the top, and bust their balls.
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He didn’t RESIGN Daryl – he was demoted and buried deep down in the bureaucracy in the hopes they could silence him. They would not have been able to shut him up if they had fired him or let him resign.
Missy8s commented:
Okay Mr Issa, I like the fact that you have brought actual oversight back to the “oversight committee” but…
I you “know you’re being gamed” by the administration why have you not filed any contempt charges against them yet?
I fully agree they a playing a run out the clock game but something’s got to give.
Please hold Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano in contempt of congress for their blatant stonewalling efforts to stymie your investigation.
You know and I know this goes right up to the dumb ass occupying the White House so get on with it already!
listing starboard commented:
Just emphasizes how despertely we need to oust Obama and elect a new administration that will prosecute these criminals.
Crackermike commented:
Government collusion with drug cartels to murder American Citizens in the USA isn’t news. Why would THAT be news? Hey, if it was news, all the Networks and Newspapers would be ON it. It’s not like they are protecting Obama or anything. They are the noble 4th estate. (sarc)
daryl commented:
“He didn’t RESIGN Daryl”
He would, by gad, if Congress would do it’s job. They all would and serve some time to boot.
Contact your representatives about it and stop the petty sniping at particulars over someone’s comment on these blogs.
Militant Conservative commented:
Hey I’m driving @ 85+ mph and no reading glasses.
Frightening huh?
Dee commented:
Ok Mr. Issa, we’ve heard about this for many months now. After all your time and money spent investigating…WHEN are charges going to brought against these crooks?
#AMERICAN commented:
can you say jail time for the liars and frauds
DINORightMarie commented:
If Issa “knows” and has information from third parties, he should be bringing charges up against the AG and whoever else involved that he can directly prove has been obstructing – and allowed this, or ordered this, to happen.
It sounds like, from Issa’s answers, that he both knows a lot more about the actual events than he is willing to admit, and has evidence to implicate officials in the administration; but he is hesitating to advance toward holding those in high office accountable. Why?!
Why are they talking about “wrapping up this investigation”? NOTHING has been officially revealed or finalized yet!!! And, just from Issa’s answer, he KNOWS there is more to this…….
Infuriating. Frustrating. Disgusting.
PRESS CHARGES against Holder – and whoever else!!! I would say Obama, but…….is there HARD evidence?! If so, MAKE IT PUBLIC!!!
Dee commented:
Mr. Issa if you know you’re being gamed then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!! You have the American people behind you!
listing starboard commented:
Eric Holder is one of the most vile, immoral and corrupt people on the planet. He is the male version of Valerie Jarrett.
Kingslayor commented:
There is the old saying that a very fine line separates orginized crime and orginized government! In the obummer administration there is no line!!! This government is as criminal as the cartels, and possibly on their payroll. Is not something to wonder why the boarder is still not secure? The cartels are running this country!!!
Skinner commented:
Does anyone know Holder’s background and how he knows Obama?
Why was he picked by Obama to become AG?
The Democrat Party is the biggest criminal organization in America – why haven’t they been sued?
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theBuckWheat commented:
The motivation of this murderous policy was to allow the President to build the political case to diminish a Constitutional right. (Indeed, according to Justice Joseph Story, the Second Amendment is the “the palladium of the liberties of the republic.”) Not even Tom Clancy would think to propose this in a novel, even if the movie might star Harrison Ford. If this is not an impeachable offense, what is? (IMO, it borders on treason)
Bill Mitchell commented:
Am I missing something? Why haven’t public hearings about this been taki8ng place daily on Capitol Hill? Why hasn’t Obama received a summons to testify under oath? Why is NOTHING happening on this although everyone knows laws were broken?
Are Republicans playing Mr Nice Guy again?
LibertyAtStake commented:
The Chairman knows what you’re not telling us. Ruh-Roh, Barry. Didn’t Alinksy instruct you to never let that happen? F.
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Ipso Facto commented:
It is truly sickening to hear Issa whining about this. All talk and no action does indeed seem to be the case here. It seems like its not only Issa that’s being gamed, we are all being gamed.
Musty Wet Pelts commented:
#6 August 31, 2011 at 6:34 am
NeoKong commented:
So sad, so tragic, and so true.
StrangernFiction commented:
Why are they talking about “wrapping up this investigation”?
Like a good member of the Feral Family, Issa wants this to GO AWAY.
Ipso Facto commented:
I just left the following email for Both of my US Senators and my US Congressional Representative:
Dear Senator Rubio,
I just heard Rep. Darrell Issa on TV talking about the Fast and Furious Gun Running Scandal. He mentions that he is receiving redacted documents from Holder, while simultaneously, third parties are giving him the same documents in an un-redacted form. His point was that he knows he’s being gamed by the AG.
PLEASE…Can you do something to move this investigation off center? It is extremely exasperating to see all of the games and stone walling by the AG. As a Senator, you must have some way to affect this situation. Please make getting to the bottom of this investigation a very high priority.
Respectfully Submitted,
Name
After sending this email, I called the DC offices of all three people and asked them to make getting to the bottom of this investigation a high priority. Unless we light up the phone lines and clog the email addresses with our concerns about this matter – NOTHING will happen. Lets do it!
L.E. Liesner commented:
The main stream media is trying to hype Melson’s removal as a win for Issa, it’s exactly the opposite. All this boils down to is obstruction of justice by the Department of Injustice and the Obama administration. If this ever gets to federal court it will be killed by the judges because they are as corrupt as this administration. Thomas Jefferson said ” When injustice becomes law, then rebellion become duty”, it’s close to that right now.
martha commented:
I want Issa and Grassley to hold back on all the findings of all the investigations they are doing until next summer say around Sept 1, they should go public-with everything they find. Let’s see who wins the Presidency then. I do’nt think Obama has a chance now, but let this come to light right before the election and all sh*t hits the fan
listing starboard commented:
skinner–Holder was instrumental in getting Clinton to pardon terrorists, Holder defended Radical Islamist terrorists, Holder was hand picked by the Soros machine, Holder would like to abolish the 2nd amendment, Holder has transformed the DOJ by hiring like minded Anti-American racists–the list is endless.
Ausonius commented:
It would be difficult to immagine a greater, more corrupt operation than “fast and furious” has been shown to be (and hard to immagine how high the corruption goes, which we will likely never be privy to).
Incompetence cannot explain this operation; it appears to be nothing but the feds providing guns to drug cartels in larazza country.
In LE circles they would call this pretext; that is, an action with a secondary goal in mind as the primary objective. So, the admin sets up this supposed operation to “track where the weapons go (big time Columbo mystery here, probably needing a room full of Phd’s in order to unravel it’s complexities), with the main objective being to demonstrate (after the weapons they facilitated are used) that loose US gun laws are the causation of Mexican drug war violence.
Nevermind the fact that when the weapon caches are found, they are full of full auto guns, rpg’s, hand grenades, and all sorts of other items that cannot be purchased by US citizens (ok, in some states people can purchase pre-1986 full autos, but to my knowledge, they have not linked any of those highly-regulated weapons to any of these incidents).
It shows, above all else, that the left will stop at nothing whatsoever to accomplish their goals.
If they could get away with the genocide of all conservatives, they would do it in a heartbeat.
therese commented:
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In 2008
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Sally commented:
Therese,
I think it is safe to say anyone here certainly votes.
It will be difficult to surpass numbers of ~20?-40? million illegals voting next time, however (although not impossible).
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
“We have confidential sources that have shown us why the administration’s representatives knew these weapons were going to the cartels. Not mostly, not maybe, but virtually all of them.”
Act on it then. What are you waiting for?
Meg commented:
Wasn’t Nixon impeached over something like this?
KeithinCapitola commented:
There are several problems here. The first and big one is that if those in the Federal government who’s job it was to keep the US safe, like the presidents, won’t build the wall to keep out the drugs and the gangs. If they have the power and can fund it but don’t, they should be held responsible for the killings and the drugs that come over the border. We do it in almost every other country in the world. Just south of where I live someone is shot and killed every night for over the last ten years by mexicans gangs. They jumped the border. If they was a wall they couldn’t get over or around most of them won’t be here.
Then the “fast and Furious” those that gave fully automatic weapons to known drug gangs that they, the same feds who didn’t build the fence to keep them out, should be thrown in prison for life. I believe in most states to own a fully automatic weapon is a 3 strikes offense and life in prison. It should be the same for those that gave the weapons to known gangs with ex-mexican military gang members and then kill our border agents. And for the other people that have their hand in it and those that are helping to cover up these outrageous crimes are getting a promotions and a raises.
American’s are getting extremely sick and tired of this kind of things. “There’s “them and us”. If your in the government and get caught not paying they taxes or anything else they just stand in front of the congress and senators and say their sorry, and that’s it.
Lets get back to what our founding father’s of this country gave us. The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. They said that “This form of government would only work if there are more good people then bad”. So what do we do when they are more bad people in government then there are good citizens?