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Title: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
Post by: Angel Eyes on June 07, 2017, 04:23:58 PM: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/07/fast-and-furious-report-slams-holder-doj-for-deception-in-gun-running-scandal.html

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Members of a congressional committee at a public hearing Wednesday blasted former President Barack Obama and his attorney general for allegedly covering up an investigation into the death of a Border Patrol agent killed as a result of a botched government gun-running project known as Operation Fast and Furious.

More details at the link.

I imagine the Republicans will lambast Obama and Holder for a bit, then the whole matter will be forgotten. No one will stand trial; no one will go to jail, although they richly deserve to.
Title: Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 07, 2017, 04:31:12 PM: I'm more interested, now that the specter of impeachment has been ~~raised~~ given flesh, and feted with a ticker-tape parade; in Hillary Clinton being convicted and imprisoned for her several crimes relating to classified material.
Title: Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
Post by: MechAg94 on June 07, 2017, 10:41:26 PM: Can we at least gets some heads rolling at the BATFE headquarters over the whole thing?
Title: Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
Post by: RoadKingLarry on June 08, 2017, 12:15:18 AM: Bread and circuses.
Nothing will come of any of it.
All the hard hitting "congressional investigations" we've seen, F&F, IRS, Benghazi, Hillary's email...nothing comes of any of it. Trey Gowdy and his posse grandstand and pander to their base and it means nothing.
*expletive deleted*ck 'em all.
Title: Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
Post by: Firethorn on June 10, 2017, 01:54:42 AM: Isn't this pretty much the same thing they're trying to impeach Trump for right now? Interfering/attempting to cover up an investigation?
Title: Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 10, 2017, 06:47:08 PM: Quote from: Firethorn on June 10, 2017, 01:54:42 AM
Isn't this pretty much the same thing they're trying to impeach Trump for right now? Interfering/attempting to cover up an investigation?

That would be true to form, given that Trump's foes keep turning out to have done what they're falsely accusing him of.
Title: Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
Post by: HankB on June 11, 2017, 12:03:36 PM: Darryl Issa, Trey Gowdy - much posturing, much harumphing, NO prosecutions, NO fines, NO jail . . .

Wasn't Eric Holder cited for contempt? What came of it? NADA.

The ONLY trial I remember hearing about that came out of congressional hearings was that of Roger Clemens, who was accused of lying about alleged steroid use to a panel of politicians. And that was a case of "WTF are elected officials wasting time on petty cr@p like this for?" (He was acquitted on all counts.) He's just a bleeping athlete - an entertainer. NOTHING he does or did matters in the long run, and in a few years he'll be nothing more than a topic in sport triva games. How does his alleged "crime" - lying to professional career liars - compare with Fast&Furious - where people died? Or weaponizing the IRS against political opponents? Or endangering the nation's security with an insecure server? Or Benghazi - where people died. And on and on and on.

Pure political theater - nothing more.

Just makes me so :mad: that I want to [barf]
Title: Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
Post by: MechAg94 on June 11, 2017, 03:20:34 PM: If anything will happen I doubt we would see it until Trumps lower level appointments are approved in the Senate.
Title: Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
Post by: Monkeyleg on June 11, 2017, 04:09:50 PM: These are all the same people investigating each other. They're not going to put anyone in jail. It would be like you jailing your brother.

It is just a stinking swamp.