Thursday, July 28, 2011

Issa Hopes White House Official Aware of Fast and Furious Will Testify.

Heritage blog reports:

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said on a conference call Wednesday evening that he will try to get a White House official who may have had knowledge of the botched Fast and Furious gunrunning operation to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

But Issa, who chairs the committee, was not optimistic about the effort. “Try? Yes,” he said, asked whether he would try to get the official into his committee room. But Issa noted that there has been “political interference at the highest level” throughout the Oversight committee’s Fast and Furious investigation.

The White House official in question is National Security Director for North America Kevin O’Reilly. During a Tuesday Oversight hearing on Fast and Furious, former ATF Special Agent Bill Newell, who was instrumental in implementing the operation, said that he had spoken with O’Reilly about Fast and Furious as early as September 2010. Whether O’Reilly was made aware that the ATF had let guns cross the border into Mexico as part of the investigation was not clear.

Newell’s admission is the first indication that White House officials were aware of the Fast and Furious program while it was ongoing. The email was leaked to the Oversight Committee by a whistleblower, Issa said; it was not released willingly by the White House.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can hope in one hand and .... in the other. Let me know which one fills up first and how much useful information you got.

Anonymous said...

i saw over at big govt. that not only was batf,dea,fbi,irs involved but that hillary's state dept,not to be out done president bongo, sold mexican drugies miltary weapons like anti-aircraft guns rocket launchers and hand grenades.

Anonymous said...

You were right on point Dutchman.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/this-is-the-futuristic-military-blimp-that-went-down-in-pa/

Looks like they really are going to do this.

10ksnooker said...

I am hoping we get another styrofoam temple sermon.

Ashrak said...

Did anyone else pick up McMahon's possible slip when he was talking about Arizona, Texas and.....then stopped himself in the middle of what sounded like a forthcoming "New Mexico"?

He was clearly rattled and stopped himself mid word.

New Mexico connection?

Anonymous said...

Any side wagers on who has the next appointment at Fort Marcy Park?

And for bonus points, can we play Name That Harridan?

III N TN