Wiretap applications obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform prove Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant AG Lanny Breuer lied to Committee members when they claimed DOJ personnel knew nothing of the tactics used by the ATF during Operation Fast And Furious.
Wiretap applications are forms that must be filled out and submitted to a judge, asking permission to perform a wiretap. As these requests may only be made if all other information-gathering techniques have been tried and found wanting, the applications are completed in extraordinary detail, listing all prior methods employed by law enforcement to gather existing evidence. In short, the entire history of the efforts put forth by law enforcement during a particular case or investigation are presented in writing to the court.
According to Committee chair Darrell Issa, six wiretap applications are now in Committee possession, all presented to the court between March and June of 2010 and all having been approved by Department of Justice officials. In fact, “each application included a memorandum from Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer to Paul M. O’Brien, Office of Enforcement Operations, authorizing the wiretap applications on behalf of the Attorney General.” “The memoranda from Breuer are marked specifically for the attention of Emory Hurley, the lead prosecutor for Operation Fast and Furious.”
Why is this so significant? As Congressman Issa wrote to Eric Holder on June 5th, “Throughout the course of the congressional investigation … the Department (DOJ) has consistently denied that any senior officials were provided information about the tactics used in Operation Fast and Furious. The wiretap applications obtained by the Committee show such statements made by senior Department officials regarding the wiretaps to be false and misleading.”
That is, DOJ higher-ups including Lanny Breuer obviously had to know of the tactics employed by the ATF during the Operation as they were clearly spelled out in the applications the DOJ-specifically Lanny Breuer-signed off on!
On September 7th, 2011, Holder stated before Issa’s Committee, “The notion that …this thing (Fast and Furious) reaches into the upper levels of the Justice Department is something that…I don’t think is supported by the facts.” One month later, in a letter to the Committees investigating the Operation, Holder wrote, “I now understand some senior officials within the Department were aware at the time that there was an operation called Fast and Furious although they were not advised of the unacceptable operational tactics being used in it.”
Issa continues the assault on Holder with the Attorney General’s testimony of September 8th. Holder said:
I don’t think the wiretap applications—I’ve not seen—I’ve not seen them. But I don’t know—I don’t have any information that indicates that those wiretap applications had anything in them that talked about the tactics that have made this such a bone of contention…I’d be surprised if the tactics themselves about gun walking were actually contained in those—in those applications. I have not seen them, but I would be surprised [if] that were the case.
Then on February 2nd of this year, Holder claimed:
I think, first off, there is no indication that Mr. Breuer or my former deputy were aware of the tactics that were employed in this matter until everybody I think became aware of them, which is like January, February of last year. The information—I’m not at this point aware that any of those tactics were contained in any of the wiretap applications.
Obviously, the DOJ had no intention of providing Congress with any of these applications or the information they contained. In fact, the applications had been sealed by the Department for some time. It is likely the Committee was leaked the applications by the same source who has provided the House with other withheld, DOJ documents.
But, however he obtained them, Issa has devastating evidence proving outright perjury on the parts of Lanny Breuer and Eric Holder. The question is, as it has been for months, whether the Republican leadership has the courage to use it.
Where is the contempt citation Mr. Boehner?
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Wouldn’t it be interesting if this “problem” and the rest of the Vast Myriad of problems (obama’s fraud, the sinking of the world economy, etc.) all came to a head during the Olympics and there at the Olympics there was some “terrorist attack” (so all the world would be likely to see it). Geez, then let’s throw in an Alien attack and the return of Jesus. Yeah, wouldn’t that get ALL the people of the world to “unite” and DEMAND that a New World Order come into being (led by the CORRUPT UN with the CORRUPT IMF financially “backing” them) to SAVE us all?
Yeah, hold on to your hat!
If we make it to the November election without any such thing happening, consider us VERY LUCKY
I believe that just the return of Jesus would be sufficient. Tthe rest would just be trivia.
Sounds good but it’s much more likely that the government will FAKE the return of Jesus. They have the technology to do it.
Yes and about the time the government fakes the return of Jesus, I would hope that God would strike all the perpetrators dead where they stand. Using such a fictitious means to shock the world into obedience would be the most horrific act I think that the government could possibly come up with.
Yes, but since most are puppets of the Satanic Illuminati, that’s how we got to where we are today.
Conservatives need to start their own party and put a stop to RINO CFR worthless repubs. It’s time to actually do it.
The tried to do it with the TEA party but BOTH parties attacked it and ALL the lemmings believed propaganda spouted by both parties that the TEA party (with some good reasons since SOME of the TEA party groups were fake and just GOP groups) was bad
You do have a point. I still can’t get over the oil rig that conveniently blew up, the death of Andrew Breitbart and his coronor, how obama helped the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Libya, plus all the other crap he has pulled. I will just keep praying. So far, so good.
THE ANSWER TO THE HOLDER PROBLEM
The Achilles Heal of Eric Holder is the same as the man who appointed him, specifically because, Obama knew he could not survive without a corrupt AG to serve as his legal attack dog and protector of all things that must be kept secret concerning Obama’s hidden authentic historical records, his lack of eligibility to hold the office of president and his burning desire to discard our revered constitution in his promised transformation of our Republic into a Marxist Regime more to his liking.
It is past time for FBI Director Robert S Mueller III, having been presented with law enforcement verification that Obama’s birth certificate and selective service registration card are both forgery’s to step forward, regardless of any direction from Holder to the contrary, to sit down with Sheriff Arpaio and his investigative team and, if the FBI can not disprove the process and forensic analysis developed by them, join with them and utilize the vast nationwide powers of the FBI to open the files wherein the authentic documents are located, if they factually exist at all, and resolve this most critical breach of national security before it is to late.
The oath Mueller took to attain the position of Director of the FBI states “I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” This oath is to the constitution, not a man sitting in the oval office whose eligibility documents are law enforcement verified forgeries.
If he gets fired by the corrupt AG Eric Holder, so be it. That is what the oath he gave to us requires him to do and his grandchildren and our Republic’s future rests upon his shoulders to do so. As it exists today, our FBI Director is committing Misprision of Treason and has become a collaborator in the act of treason itself by his refusal to investigate this matter and is instead having the FBI serve as the protector of the forgers, their collaborators and his corrupt boss in this, the most critical breach of national security this country has ever faced.
My registered letter to Director Mueller was received by his office on May 7, 2012 follows; http://www.scribd.com/doc/91935631/FBI-Director-Robert-S-Mueller-III
Wow! Now, was a response from FBI Director Mueller received, Mr. Quinn? The P.S. in your letter to Director Mueller includes these words “If this corrupt administration is given another 4 years…it will be impossible for us to ever recover short of revolution.” Scary! But no such option is ever off the table in a government by the People.
No truer words have ever been said! I’ve been insisting that it wii take a revolution to get rid of the new Hitler since there isn’t anybody in the media other than M. Savage that acknowledges that we have a communist takeover happening. If Holder and Hitler are not removed as they should be, than it will take a revolution to correct matters.
Don’t fall for the idea of having a revolution. Obama would LOVE that to happen so he could declare Martial Law.
rlqretired…..Wonderful letter, if that doesn’t wake Mueller up, nothing will, I had read once that obama had the FBI, CIO, most of all our power agencies paid off so I don’t suppose he will answer you, if he doesn’t I would keep sending it until he does.
Wow again, that was an excellent letter! I hope Director Mueller takes the time to contemplate everything you laid out. He certainly could redeem his legacy for himself and his heirs but only if he acts now before this travesty goes any farther. I hope that many in this administration take the time to read this article and your posting & letter. Thanks!
Right-On Riqretired Great Letter My Answer Would Be First Get Rid Of Holder/Breuer Both Lied Under Oath , Cut The DOJ And ATF In Half And Use The “Fast And Furious” Case As Reason Number One, If You Can Not Get Results Any Faster, Get Rid Of Half Your Staff. Cut Cut And Cut Until It Hurts The USA Is Broke And Mitt Romney Needs Eager-Beavers. God Bless America And Sheriff Joe Arpaio As The Next Secty Of Homeland Security.
In the letter dated June 5, 2012 that was sent to the Honorable Eric H Holder Jr. Attorney General by Congressman Darrell Issa, the last sentence in the letter is somewhat of a joke. It read, ” It’s time for you to honor your commitment to Congress and the American people by holding these individuals accountable”.
The Honorable Eric H Holder Jr. can not possibly do that since if he did he would have to hold both himself and the “Manchurian Candidate” accountable and that will never happen. We have a “Do-Nothing” Congress lead by John Boehner that earns over $225,000.00 per year in salary alone and our Senators and Congress men drain the coffers of $176,000.00 plus insane benefits and expense accounts and we get the equivalent of *^%^all back from them.
There is not one single member of Congress that will uphold their oath of office and demand that a Congressional investigation be initiated to validate the “Manchurian Candidates” eligibility to hold office. John Boehner will not allow Congressmen Darrell Issa to charge the Honorable Eric H. Holder Jr. with contempt by refusing to comply with a Congressional hearing. The guilty parties will continue to commit crimes against the American people and they know that there is not a single thing that anyone will do to them, because they are the elitists.
I’m afraid he might have to hold his boss accountable, and that would be for all the rotten things he authorizes in the dead of night, he loves those pens for each letter, makes him feel important. Who do you think he’s protecting wth all those lies and hidden documents, you know whoes name is on them. OBINGO!
Congress has no problem and plenty of time to jump all over Roger Clemens, a professional athlete (why are they sticking their busybody little noses into professional baseball in the first place?), for lying to them, but something of grave importance like this they try to sweep under the rug with precious few exceptions (thank you for your guts and perseverance, Rep. Issa) . Remember Watergate, where no one was murdered, and how the pit bull press of that time won awards for investigating it? Where are the Woodwards and Bernsteins of today’s press? What a pathetic group of wimpy little Obama sycophants. That’s why I do not watch, read or listen to you phony “journalists” anymore.
Conservadave,
Congress investigates Clemens because it is an institution which has made a career of playing 3 card monte. Like the street magicians on the corner, they draw the attention of their audience to one thing while doing another. While baseball players make unimportant news, they crowd out public attention to the one or two really important things going on.
This is symptomatic of how inbred our officials are. Everyone is in a rush to do nothing until after the elections. Send them all packing and legislate term limits to help limit these crooks ability to line their pockets at our expense. Brian Terry’s family deserve the truth.
Do we have a disgruntled employee that doesnt like being painted with such a wide brush as coming from a scumbag outfit that is responsible for the death of our own people and many Mexicans. And where is the Mexican Goverment in all this? They must be getting some kickbacks to keep their mouths shut…….If I was a Mexican politition they would hear me in Toronto……And the Republicans you give them everything but the Perps saying they did it with their hands on a bible and they still do nothing…….Put them all under the Jail. Holder leading the group. All to deny Americans their second Amendment right. “In God we trust! “Men have their own agenda…..
Who is minding the ship, Benedict Obama and Erik Arnold? Leaking info to their buddies, the press, Hollywood and who knows who else AND selling guns to drug cartels AND allowing illegals (including, it seems, Jihadists) free access to America and lying about and/or covering up the whole schmear!
It seems our “National Security” is about as secure as the Titanic – POST iceberg!
Of course he lied no one in Obama’s Administration can speak the truth Congress get off your fat useless rears and demand his resignation never mind about citing him for contempt of congress do the will of the people
When will these **** PEOPLE *** learn that lieing will not work. You tell one lie to cover up another one , then another one and ETC .
Time for some heads to roll, starting with the BOSS ***** O B U M E R **** ., on down to the lowlyest garbge collector.
Thats the problem it appears that they have taken a Page out of Leadership 101 for the Army. Protect the generals at all cost if you have to throw some enlisted man under the bus! Some poor sap will fall on his sword for this and Holder,Obummer and the whole gang will walk away Scott free.Remember Ollie North, and Tricky Dickies boys…..
Obama,Holder and anyone involved in the gun running and or anyone who knew about it and said nothing or lied about it should go to prison for twenty or more years!
When is the Commie going to be arrested, and who is going to arrest him? It’s all BS and smoking mirrors. Talk, talk, talk – and that’s all we do. In the meantime, Obama and Holder look and laugh, not only at this inane and impotent Congress, but also at WE THE PEOPLE. It’s time for a bona fide Third Party in this Country. The members of both the Republican and Democrat Parties all park their cars in the same garage! Throw all the bums out!
I wonder if Obama is going to issue another Executive Order (like Executive Order 13489 where he prohibits access to his past documentstion) to prevent access to the documents that can expose Holder and the DOJ as liars.
Obama has done it once and sofar it has worked.
The sad thing is that when (not “if”) he does it, romney will let him get away with it.
Everybody should write their congressman. Here’s a response that I just got from Tom McClintock today (though I tend to think ALL congressmen are LAME, including Issa and McClintock):
Thank you for writing regarding the “Fast and Furious” program.
This fatally flawed program – which was carried out by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Justice Department – was intended to expose and stop Mexican drug cartel gun smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border. Instead, the program sold and lost track of more than two thousand guns which have been smuggled into Mexico and have led to the death of at least two American citizens and an unknown number of Mexican citizens.
At every turn, Attorney General Eric Holder has blocked and slowed Congress’s investigation of this failed program. I strongly support Rep. Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in his efforts to uncover the facts and ensure that those responsible are held accountable.
Thank you once again for writing.
Sincerely,
Tom
I find it hard to believe that Rep. McClintock truly believes that this was just a failed program to stop drug cartel smuggling across the Mexican border! He, as well as everyone else in Congress knows the true intent of this program was to use the smuggling of arms from America to Mexico as a tool to abolish our 2nd Admendment rights. It is cowardly to obfuscate the real intentions of this administration!
He’s a politician. When I wrote him about obama’s FAKE birth certificate, he gave me a similar email about how the matter was thoroughly investigated. He’s a typical BOUGHT OFF politician.
Well, arrest him please?? Of corse No!! Justice system wont do it. I believe we are learning what really went on here!! People with no responsablity in office messing up!!
Well, well……..Shamin on the nuggin!!! He made a big mistake!! Now, Own Up To It!!!!!!!!!
Serpico
I say charge them all with fraud and grand theft and ship them all to KENYA or China, but ship Soros to either France or Greece to be tried for war crimes…..
If there is definitive proof as the article states then one can only hope that after the onus of disgrace and corruption of the DOJ by this incompetent and corrupt Attorney General, he will finally be charged and tried and punished for the abuses of power and the violations of his oath of office as mutitutinous as they have been; not only on his part , but on the president and those others in the administration who have used these fraudulent rulings and efforts to the detriment of those they are sworn to serve and the constitution they are sworn to defend and uphold, not disdain and ignore. Let’s see if Congress has the cojones to live up to IT’s responsibilities to us or if they are as corrupt and inadequate as those in this administration.
So the letter of Laws is not sufficient to Hold Obama and Holder responsible of crimes? Whatg is this?
Fellow Birthers please bear with me, there is a way for those in the service of this usurper to redeem themselves.
I would like to advise anyone in any position in the hugobama administration to start copying any and all correspondence and directives pertaining to your jobs and hide and protect them with your lives!!! There will come a day of judgment soon when many will be held accountable for what has transpired during the reign of this puppet administration and all affiliated organizations that have been pulling their strings. Those of you who have nothing to bargain with such as the emails, correspondences and directives to pass the buck up the chain of command will be left to be the fall guys while the heads of this administration will disavow any and all knowledge of your actions, leaving you hang for their HIGH CRIMES & TREASONOUS acts! The time to start gathering vital information is now! With the hugobama campaign looking more and more grim by the moment, the shredding and mutilation of documentary evidence will begin any day now! Just look back at what happened at the end of the clinton administration with the illegal, massive mutilation and theft of documents, erasing of emails and destruction of equipment. The big guys at the top don’t fall easy without overwhelming evidence but the minions that implement their directives are always left to answer for their crimes!!!
Holder needs to spend the next few decade in a maximum security prison! He is a Liar and Corrupt as they come. Seems like everyone in the Obama Administration, including Obama himself, are as corrupt as they come! Only 8% if Husseins animals have worked in the Private Sector, unlike all other Presidents, who usually ran around 58%, so is it any wonder our country is in such dire straights? No, this is no longer Bush’s fault, this is Obama and his Legion of Demonkrats fault!
Holder lies…big deal, but no one does anything to get him out of being DOJ. Why shouldn’t lie.
Again the most transparent adminstrations in histroy proves that they have more to hide than trick dick and the definition of is adminstration!If this was’nt our country this would be a funny play or plot for a book !I can almost hear the jokes being written and spoken in capitals around the world!Prehaps Barry and Eric can go on the I’m the biggest fool tour after they finish gitmo tours!
This should not come as a surprise to anybody. Holder is just like obozo, a liar!!!!!!!
Holder must be held accountable. He has shown that he is responsible for the gun running to Mexico and trying to pin that on Republicans. Yes he is using this as a political gambit and his boss, one Obama are talking this up before he goes before Congress. There is no doubt that this WH is responsible for the security leaks which are damaging this Country. That dove tails with what Obama has been doing all the time he has been in the WH. He wants this Country to become a third world country and all his overseas lies about this Country, like this is no longer a Christian Nation, point to that fact. Congress must indict Holder, and his boss, in this destruction of American reputation. Democrats and Republicans need to get together on this and see that it is done.
Looks lika long! Long filabuster! They will drag this out till everyone forgets about it, the election is over, or they throw up there hands and say we cant find anything…….Its getting as Old as looking for his geneology and birth certificate! This administration keeps so much crap in the air it detracts from the things that are destroying this country! Less spending. Destroying the fabric of the constitution, And reform from the bottom up…..
I am hoping Jesus will come now too, but in case there is a delay, we need to stand. These people have made know their aims for Israel and America. Blacks, Latinos andor any ethnic groups are not immune to the devastation this man is perpetrating upon this country. They left their own countries to come here and it looks like they brought their dictatorships with them. They are walking into something they will NOT want to be a part of when the dust settles.
That should do it. Arrest him for contempt and perjury.