Gunwalker: Justice Department Tampering with Witne

Gunwalker: Justice Department Tampering with Witnesses?

Darrell Issa and Charles Grassley demand to know about contact DOJ has had with committee witnesses. Also, a source tells PJM: DOJ has picked a new fall guy to target after they failed to topple ATF Director Ken Melson.


Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Sen. Charles Grassley, (R-IA), ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, have fired off another pair of letters to Attorney General Eric Holder as part of their investigation into the Operation Fast and Furious debacle, which has claimed the lives of at least two American law enforcement agents and a reported 150 Mexican nationals.

In one letter, Issa and Grassley note that the Department of Justice has been providing information about the program to committee witnesses — which implies tampering. The other letter names DOJ officials who knew about the operation.

Per the tampering letter:

We have recently learned that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATF) has afforded potential witnesses for the Committees’ investigation into Operation Fast and Furious access to a shared drive on its computer system replete with pertinent investigative documents, including official ATF emails. Although, our staff has been advised the Department has since terminated access to this document cache, we write to seek additional information relating to this egregious decision. We also ask that you promptly self-report this matter to the Office of Inspector General (OIG).

As we understand it, the shared drive contains the documents that have been produced to the Committees through the course of our investigation, those made available for in camera review and possibly documents that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has not yet provided to the Committee. These witnesses had not previously seen many of these documents.

Allowing witnesses access to such documents could taint their testimony by allowing them to tailor their responses to what they think the Committees already know. Additionally, witnesses who gain access to documents they have not previously seen could alter their recollection of events. This practice harms not only our investigation, but also the independent investigation that you instructed the Inspector General to conduct.

[philibusters]

I think if this scandel fully erupts it could cost Eric Holder his job because there was a lot of poor judgment used.

[itsbob]

Originally Posted by philibusters

I think if this scandel fully erupts it could cost Eric Holder his job because there was a lot of poor judgment used.

that's ok. O has Farrakhan inline if Holder has to resign.

[ImnoMensa]

Originally Posted by philibusters

I think if this scandel fully erupts it could cost Eric Holder his job because there was a lot of poor judgment used.

Do you really believe that Eric Holder planned and operated this operation without direct knowledge from the White House.?

You give Eric Holder more credit than I do.

I think if this scandal fully erupts it will cost Obama his job, but I do not see it fully erupting.

The facts are that the United States Government allowed guns to be passed to Drug cartels by ordering the ATF,and the FBI to ignore gun sales in Texas.
The Dealers who sold these guns tipped off the ATF early on and they were told to keep selling them. people in Mexico are dying by the thousands ,killed by the drug cartels. We have lost at least one agent and one Border Patrol agent to these Cartels. People are being beheaded and mutilated in Mexico.

Yet our Media is unusually quiet about these outrages. They are more worried about a Mother who killed her daughter and got away with it.

I don't see this story reaching its ultimate conclusion, the man running the show is protected by the Media.

[itsbob]

Originally Posted by ImnoMensa

Do you really believe that Eric Holder planned and operated this operation without direct knowledge from the White House.?

You give Eric Holder more credit than I do.

I think if this scandal fully erupts it will cost Obama his job, but I do not see it fully erupting.

The facts are that the United States Government allowed guns to be passed to Drug cartels by ordering the ATF,and the FBI to ignore gun sales in Texas.
The Dealers who sold these guns tipped off the ATF early on and they were told to keep selling them. people in Mexico are dying by the thousands ,killed by the drug cartels. We have lost at least one agent and one Border Patrol agent to these Cartels. People are being beheaded and mutilated in Mexico.

Yet our Media is unusually quiet about these outrages. They are more worried about a Mother who killed her daughter and got away with it.

I don't see this story reaching its ultimate conclusion, the man running the show is protected by the Media.

Itcs apparent the media will NOT report on anything negative to the Obama administration, at least nothing more than a passing story. In the past this story would be everywhere and the press would be taking pride in the fact that they were taking down a President.

Affirmative Action at work in the press. How racist is THAT?