UPDATE:House Republicans are calling for a Special Prosecutor to investigate Obama Attorney General Eric Holder.

Latest Word out @ 4pm today:

Fast and Furious: GOP Says Eric Holder is ‘Either Incompetent’ or ‘Misleading Congress’

Twice in 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder received memos referencing the Fast and Furious program, memos that seemingly undermine the letter of his May 3, 2010 testimony that he heard about the Fast and Furious program over the previous few weeks.

Justice Department officials acknowledge that the memos to Holder reference Fast and Furious as an operation – but they argue the memos do not include details about tactics that allowed guns to cross the border. They say Holder understood the May 2011 question to Holder from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., to have been about when the attorney general learned about the controversial tactics, not about the existence of the program.

Republicans aren’t buying it.

“He’s either incompetent or he’s misleading Congress,” responded Becca Watkins, press secretary for the House Oversight Committee, which is chaired by Issa.

A Justice Department official says that “Chairman Issa, of all people, should be familiar with the difference between knowing about an investigation and being aware of questionable tactics employed in that investigation since documents provided to his committee show he was given a briefing that included the Fast and Furious operation in 2010 – a year before the controversy emerged.” In April 2010, Issa was one of several members of Congress briefed on attempts to stop gun smuggling by criminal cartels.

Holder “has consistently said he became aware of the questionable tactics in this operation in early 2011 when ATF agents first raised them publicly, and then promptly asked the Inspector General to investigate the matter,” the Justice Department official said.

On July 5, 2010 Michael Walther, the director of the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center, wrote a memo to Holder mentioning the Fast and the Furious operation. It refers to the Drug Intelligence Center Document and media Exploitation Team at the Phoenix Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force’s “Operation Fast and the Furious.”

The operation was described as an “investigation, initiated in September 2009 in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Phoenix Police Department, involves a Phoenix-based firearms trafficking ring headed by Manuel Celis-Acosta. Acosta and (redacted) straw purchasers are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug trafficking cartels. They also have direct ties to the Sinaloa Cartel which is suspected of providing $1 million for the purchase of firearms in the greater Phoenix area.”

On October 18, 2010, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer wrote a memo to Holder, noting that among the “SIGNIFICANT UPCOMING EVENTS” would be an October 27 indictment of eight individuals involved with trafficking hundreds of firearms to Mexico. “The sealing will likely last until another investigation, Phoenix-based ‘Operation Fast and Furious,’ is ready for takedown,” Breuer wrote.

On May 3, 2011, Issa asked Holder about two Border Patrol agents killed by guns “that were allowed, as far as we can tell, to deliberately walk out of gun shops under the program often called Fast and Furious,” a program that “allowed for weapons to be sold to straw purchasers, and ultimately many of those weapons are today in the hands of drug cartels and other criminals.”

Issa asked Holder when he first knew about the Fast and Furious program.

Holder replied: “I’m not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.”

article by -Jake Tapper
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White House Insider: Obama “Isolated…Ignorant”A brief update from our longtime D.C. insider details an increasingly isolated and ignorant President Obama, as well as insights into their views regarding the GOP presidential field – and the promise of major announcements coming against the Obama administration.

 Have seen the uptick in media coverage of the rift between party leaders, donors, etc. and the president. As I already told you, this has been the situation for some time. The fact it is getting more coverage now is due to panic setting in among party leaders who are facing a very difficult election cycle. 2010 was a disaster for them. 2012 is not looking any better. This panic needs to happen. It is going according to plan. The current party leadership needs to be swept aside and new leadership installed. Those individuals are ready and have the support of key figures willing to help navigate those waters and make it happen. We will not be surprised this time following the elections. Major transformation of the party to happen post-election. HUGE. I will help to lay groundwork for that necessity this year and next and after that it’s sunset time for me. Or not. Hah!

old you FnF was the real deal. All that other stuff is fuel to the fire, but FnF is where this administration has been caught. We’re talking murder here. Deadly political manipulation. A criminal enterprise orchestrated at the highest levels of government. Nasty nasty sh-t. Remember months ago when I said we got the f-ckers? They got caught? You’re seeing that work come to fruition right now. Push Holder out. Go time. Mr. President, could you please come in here? I’ve spent my adult life helping to elect presidents. Now I’m working double time to remove one. Irony is a funny thing. If you think I’m sounding confident right now it’s for good reason. You ain’t seen nothing yet. Some Dems are gonna come out against Holder soon. Keep your ears open for that. Coming soon. Another crack in the dam.

As for what’s going on in the WH. Christ it’s a Greek tragedy/comedy thing they have going on in there. The president is sent on the road with his script. He’s being told things are gonna play out in his favor. “Don’t believe the polls Mr. President.” The man is almost completely isolated and ignorant from reality now. When he goes off script it sends the team into a frenzy of damage control. This is happening day after day. There was a meeting between Congressional leaders and VP. Word is a contingency plan was introduced. That sounds implausible to me, but forwarding this to you to do some follow-up if you want. A contingency plan for 2012 in case the president does not wish to run or cannot run. Also informed a Republican was at that meeting as well. This is staffer rumor mill stuff here, but from a source who has proven right on many times for us before. Could things be getting that bad for the president? Perhaps so. He did consider quitting not so long ago. I now believe that to be fact. I still maintain Jarrett will not allow that to happen though. She would be far too vulnerable herself without the protection of this administration. Jarrett will break the president under the wheel of her own desire for self preservation if she has to.

ou asked me what I think of the GOP field? Not a bad bunch. Some better than others. Romney remains the frontrunner. That organization is top notch. Very impressed with their team. They’ve hired some very competent people. No, I am not one of them. I would consider it though. For now I will be quite content helping the next phase of this. Primary the president in conjunction with the ongoing Congressional investigations.

Fox news has the story here:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/04/house-republicans-to-request-special-counsel-to-probe-holder-on-fast-and/
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Luv “U” Ulsterman for keeping the light on and keeping us informed!

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