Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. Agent Brian Terrys family and the American public deserve answers yet the Attorney General and the President wish to hide the truth. For eight months Congress has requested information from the Justice Department to determine who was responsible for and had knowledge of the flawed Fast & Furious gun-walking operation said Cong. Pete Olson (TX-22) following the House of Representatives vote to hold U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.
Last week President Obama defended Holders decision to keep America in the dark and wrongfully asserted Executive Privilege to deny release of the requested documents.
Unfortunately the only mechanism left for Congress to exercise its constitutionally mandated oversight powers is to hold the Attorney General in contempt.
Attorney General Holder has refused to cooperate with Congress about the operation and failed to produce requested documents Olsen said.
In 2010 the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and the Department of Justice implemented Operation Fast and Furious a botched government scheme that put American guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels and resulted in the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and an estimated 200 Mexican citizens.
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. Agent Brian Terrys family and the American public deserve answers yet the Attorney General and the President wish to hide the truth. For eight months Congress has requested information from the Justice Department to determine who was responsible for and had knowledge of the flawed Fast & Furious gun-walking operation said Cong. Pete Olson (TX-22) following the House of Representatives vote to hold U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.
Last week President Obama defended Holders decision to keep America in the dark and wrongfully asserted Executive Privilege to deny release of the requested documents.
Unfortunately the only mechanism left for Congress to exercise its constitutionally mandated oversight powers is to hold the Attorney General in contempt.
Attorney General Holder has refused to cooperate with Congress about the operation and failed to produce requested documents Olsen said.
In 2010 the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and the Department of Justice implemented Operation Fast and Furious a botched government scheme that put American guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels and resulted in the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and an estimated 200 Mexican citizens.
