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Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
« 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.
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Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2017, 10:41:26 PM »
Can we at least gets some heads rolling at the BATFE headquarters over the whole thing? 
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Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
« Reply #3 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.
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Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
« Reply #4 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?
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Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
« Reply #6 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]
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Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
« Reply #7 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. 
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Re: Fast & Furious hearings: too little, too late?
« Reply #8 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.
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