Issa Fires Another Shot in Fast and Furious Battle
Bulldog Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Darrell Issa has repeatedly refused to let the Fast and Furious scandal drop. Last week he subpoenaed U.S. Attorney Patrick Cunningham, who decided to take the Fifth rather than testify. So scared of being dragged in front of Issa’s committee was he, his lawyer said he wouldn’t answer any questions but his name and title.
This is tacit admission there was criminal wrongdoing in the failed gun trafficking case which allowed thousands of weapons across the border into the hands of Mexican Cartels, and which has led hundreds of deaths on both sides of the border.
Comes around this week, and Issa is demanding Michael Morrissey, who worked directly under Cunningham testify. My guess is he’ll take the Fifth as well.
Read the release below:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa demanded in letter to Attorney General Holder that the Justice Department make Arizona U.S. Attorney’s Office Assistant United States Attorney Michael Morrissey available to speak with Committee investigators about his role in and knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious. His supervisor, Patrick Cunningham, has stated he will exercise his Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer any questions pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious – such an assertion is extremely rare and suggests possible criminal culpability on the part of a high ranking Justice Department official. Morrissey, who reported directly to Cunningham’s and was intimately involved with Operation Fast and Furious.
“Since August, the Department has identified Patrick Cunningham as the best person in the U.S. Attorney’s Office to provide information about Fast and Furious to the Committee,” Issa said in his letter to Holder. “The Department has refused to make Michael Morrissey and Emory Hurley, both Assistant United States Attorneys supervised by Mr. Cunningham, available to speak with the Committee, citing a policy of not making “line attorneys” available for congressional scrutiny. Mr. Morrissey, however, was Mr. Hurley’s direct supervisor, and an integral part of Fast and Furious. Importantly, both Morrissey and Hurley are unique in their possession of key factual knowledge about Fast and Furious not readily available from any other source.”
The Chairman also reiterated that the Justice Department still has not complied with the subpoenas issued to date, including subpoenaed documents from Cunningham, Morrissey and Hurley.
Attorney General Eric Holder appears before the Oversight Committee on Operation Fast and Furious on February 2nd. Learn more about Operation Fast and Furious at fastandfuriousinvestigation.com
Read the letter to Holder re: Cunningham here
Read the letter to Holder re: Morrissey here
So… what if they just ignore the subpoenas? What, then, will Congress do about it? Arrest them? How? The DoJ ARE the cops.
It’s not like the Dems in Congress would vote to impeach, anyway. That’s the real problem. Impeachment of Dems is not an option anymore, because they have become thoroughly corrupt.
This is no longer a Republic. It has become an Oligarchy.
To be fair, I don’t think a Republican House and Senate would vote to impeach either. Both parties are corrupt.
Maybe we can get the U.N. to send them a toughly worded letter, then some U.N. troops can, uhm, romance them.
Patrick Richardson: How can this wall of silence be breached?
Dynamite?
Seriously, I have no idea. Christian Adams says these guys never turn on each other, so how Issa will do this I have no idea.
Immunity is about the only tool he has.
Thanks.
Well, as I understood what happened with Col. North, if Congress grants him immunity, that immunity carries through to any criminal prosecution. Then it becomes a matter of how he would be arrested and incarcerated for Contempt of Congress should he continue to refuse to testify since, as someone said, the USDOJ is federal law enforcement. If AZ really wants to pull the tiger’s tail, they can subpoena some of these federal thugs and then try to arrest them on state charges or at least get warrants out for them so they all have to stay safely in Babylon, er, DC. It really is about time for the Red States to declare at least a limited war on the Soros Junta. Since aggressive investigations and aggressive assertion of state sovereignty fell into disfavor in the ’50s and ’60s states seem to have forgotten that they are in many ways more powerful than the federal government.