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2012-06-29 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Darrell Issa Puts Details of Secret Wiretap Applications in Congressional Record

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Posted by DarthVader 2012-06-29 13:08|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The application included financial details for four suspected straw purchasers showing they had purchased $373,000 worth of guns in cash but reported almost no income for the previous year, the letter says.

Did the so-called straw purchasers report any campaign donations?

Posted by Besoeker 2012-06-29 13:27|| 2012-06-29 13:27|| Front Page Top

#2 This is a big deal. It demonstrates clearly that Holder knew what was going on when he said he didn't. Now we at the Burg already know that Holder is a liar, but it's going to become increasingly difficult for the MSM to dance around the issue.

Posted by Steve White 2012-06-29 16:48|| 2012-06-29 16:48|| Front Page Top

#3 but it's going to become increasingly difficult for the MSM to dance around the issue

Issue? What issue? If the MSM doesn't report on it, then it seems that over half the folks out there would have no clue it was an issue, if they even knew it was happening.

Posted by gorb 2012-06-29 17:31|| 2012-06-29 17:31|| Front Page Top

#4 If you are someone who gets their international news listening to NPR on the way to work, you have no idea anything of importance is happening in Mexico and absolutely no idea what Fast & Furious might be.

Just like with Obama turning off credit card verification, if the MSM ignores it, it never happened.

Posted by SteveS 2012-06-29 17:57|| 2012-06-29 17:57|| Front Page Top

#5 As Reverend Wright said one time about someone else: "He's riding dirty!" If there is nothing to hide, why would Holder ask Obama to invoke executive privilege? Why would Holder lie to Congress? The wiretap applications show that people high up in the DOJ knew of F & F. Things are not coming out that should be coming out before the American people.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-06-29 20:17|| 2012-06-29 20:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Issa brought a gun to a Chicago knife fight. In teh end, I suspect Obama will either throw Holder under the bus or pardon him on O's way out the door. Issa has whistleblowers in the BATFE. He'll do a "Breitbart" where they dribble stuff out and prove the spinners as liars with further releases

Posted by Frank G 2012-06-29 21:00|| 2012-06-29 21:00|| Front Page Top

#7 If there is M O N E Y involved in this, it may be a very, very "dirty ride".

Posted by Besoeker 2012-06-29 21:09|| 2012-06-29 21:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Frank G is on point, though this is several degrees more serious than Breitbart's best efforts. That said, the AG still has arguable grounds to deny knowledge. Arguable, but weak and getting weaker fast. I wonder where Issa goes next. If the dems keep challenging him, would he go for an independent counsel? Or, is he content to keep this a political mess, particularly if he's called on the immunity issue. The Dems could call his bluff there by agreeing to an independent counsel, and depending on his evidence, that could split the dems three ways - what the Potus wants, what the AG wants, and what the house dems want.

Given what Fitzgerald did to Libby with next to nothing, I'd expect the AG to resign long before a prosecution starts, but that may not be enough.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2012-06-29 22:28|| 2012-06-29 22:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Justice declines to prosecute their boss.

Posted by Water Modem 2012-06-29 23:26|| 2012-06-29 23:26|| Front Page Top

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