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Boehner, Cantor Announce House Fast & Furious Contempt Vote Next Week | Speaker.gov
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On June 20th, the Oversight Committee met to consider a resolution to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to produce subpoenaed documents related to Operation Fast & Furious. Earlier that day, President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege to withhold documents related to the investigation.


The resolution was passed with a recorded vote of 23 yeas to 17 nays.

The contempt resolution now goes to the full House of Representatives for a vote.

Boehner, Cantor Announce House Fast & Furious Contempt Vote Next Week | Speaker.gov

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Boehner, Cantor Announce House Fast & Furious Contempt Vote Next Week

Posted by Speaker Boehner Press Office

June 20, 2012

Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) issued the following statement after the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee approved a resolution holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for his refusal to turn over subpoenaed documents related to the Fast & Furious operation:

“Despite being given multiple opportunities to provide the documents necessary for Congress’ investigation into Fast and Furious, Attorney General Holder continues to stonewall. Today, the Administration took the extraordinary step of exerting executive privilege over documents that the Attorney General had already agreed to provide to Congress. Fast and Furious was a reckless operation that led to the death of an American border agent, and the American people deserve to know the facts to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again. While we had hoped it would not come to this, unless the Attorney General reevaluates his choice and supplies the promised documents, the House will vote to hold him in contempt next week. If, however, Attorney General Holder produces these documents prior to the scheduled vote, we will give the Oversight Committee an opportunity to review in hopes of resolving this issue.”

Operation Fast and Furious

All the below is from the United States House of Representatives Oversight Committee, chaired by the Honorable Darrell Issa.

We applaud the Honorable Committee and the Honorable Mr. Issa for their pursuit of Justice and Law Enforcement and for upholding the rights of a brave Law Enforcement Officer Brian Terry and his aggrieved family. God bless Mr. Issa and the Committee.

Link to INFOGRAPHIC Obama Administration Fast and Furious related Key Players

Link to You tube playlist: Operation Fast and Furious

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Police discovers firearms in US embassy van in Bolivia | EUTimes.net

Well done Bolivian Police, just like Representative Darrell Issa uncovering the corruption of Eric Holder in Fast and Furious.

Police discovers firearms in US embassy van in Bolivia | EUTimes.net

Police discovers firearms in US embassy van in Bolivia

Posted by EU Times on Mar 28th, 2012 // 1 Comment

A policeman outside the US embassy in La Paz, Bolivia

Bolivian police officers have discovered firearms in a van belonging to the US embassy during a routine search in the country’s northeast.

Bolivia’s Interior Minister Carlos Romero said that the firearms, including three shotguns, a revolver and more than two-thousand cartridges, were found in the northeastern city of Trinidad on Tuesday, AFP reported.

Police stopped the vehicle for inspection following a tip from intelligence services, the minister said, calling the incident a matter of “national security.”

“We’re talking about actions that put the security of the nation in danger, about actions that call into question the respect for state institutions and the laws of the Bolivian state,” he said.

Bolivian President Evo Morales has recently stated that he would shut down the American embassy in La Paz if Washington continues to interfere in Bolivia’s internal affairs.

“If the US embassy continues bothering Bolivia, as it is doing now, then it is best we close the United States embassy in Bolivia because we are anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberals,” Morales said.

Morales has been publicly critical of US policies towards his nation, charging that a number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been engaged in spying against the country on behalf of the US.

The American embassy in Bolivia has issued a statement, claiming that Washington often provides weapons and ammunition to local police officers in many other countries to protect US diplomatic installations.

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1 Response to " Police discovers firearms in US embassy van in Bolivia "

1. evevalin says:

   29/03/2012 at 9:38 am

   Well Done Bolivia!! Everyone should stand up too mad amerika!

People in neighborhoods who plot to control other peoples property or sale thereof

People in neighborhoods who plot to control other peoples property or sale thereof by manipulating Homeowners Associations and coercing, threatening, gangstalking – a serious crime itself – and violence and fear, where the property is for sale across State lines, are criminals and must be prosecuted under Federal Law.

The RICO law, 18 USC §1962(c), prohibits “any person employed by or associated with any enterprise engaged in… activities… which affect[] interstate… commerce, to conduct… such enterprise’s affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity…” (emphasis added)

§ 1961(1) defines a “racketeering activity” as

(A) any act or threat involving murder, kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, dealing in obscene matter, or dealing in a controlled substance… which is chargable under State law and punishable by imprisonment for more than one year [or] (B) any act which is indictable under any of the following provisions of title 18, United States Code: Section 201… (emphasis added)

One of the acts “indictable under any of the following provisions of title 18″ is extortion, which is defined by § 1951(a) as when someone “obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion or attempts or conspires so to do (sic)…” That section further defines extortion as “the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.”

And § 1961(5) defines a “pattern of racketeering activity” as “at least two acts of [even the same] racketeering activity…”

California extortion laws are defined in Penal Codes 518 to 527 PC. Penal Code 518 defines extortion (which is commonly referred to as blackmail) as:

using force or threats to compel another to give you money or other property,

using force of threats to compel a public officer to perform an official act, or

being a public official and compelling another to give you money or other property acting under color of official right.

Backlink: The Justice of God: None: People in neighborhoods who plot to control other peoples property or sale thereof

Rhonda's Commentary: Mules, Drugs, Lawyers and the Military

The Justice of God: Fast And Furious Investigation

The Justice of God: Fast And Furious Investigation

Oversight Committee Hearing live at 9:00 AM Eastern Time, 6:00 AM Pacific Time, February 2, 2012

C-SPAN and C-SPAN II not showing this live.

FIVE YEAR GUN RUNNING OPERATION - ARIZONA ATF - EXPOSED BY UNITED STATES CONGRESS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE. CONTEMPT CITATION IN OFFING IF HOLDER CONTINUES TO STONEWALL. REP. BURTON INCREDULOUS AT TESTIMONY.

DarrellIssa Darrell Issa

Here is my full letter to #Holder. Stop stonewalling or face contempt charges. Choice is his: 1.usa.gov/z0SKMK. #tcot #fastandfurious

31 Jan

http://oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Letters/2012-01-31_DEI_to_Holder_re_Feb_4_deadline.pdf

See below especially, and see here also on Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23FastAndFurious

On Twitter: See #FastAndFurious

See below:

FORTRESS HOLDER: A Year of Justice Department Stonewalling

LETTER TO HOLDER: Comply with Fast & Furious Subpoena or Face Contempt Charges

BACKGROUND MEMO: The Role of Top Justice Department Officials in Fast & Furious

ISSA TO HOLDER: When did you first know about Fast and Furious?

REP.MEEHAN
discovers ATF, ICE, DEA & IRS all involved in Fast and Furious

WHITE HOUSE
received information from ATF on Operation Fast and Furious

Fast and Furious: Who is Accountable?

Attorney General Holder, Does The Buck Stop With You?

Issa Pushes Holder for Truth on Handling of Fast and Furious

Chaffetz to AG Holder: Where Is Communication B/W DOJ, Obama

Gowdy Questions AG Holder on Key Players Involved with Fast & Furious

Ross to AG Holder: You Can Delegate Authority, But You Cannot Delegate

Gowdy to AG Holder: Wiretaps for Operation Fast & Furious and Hierarchy of Key DOJ

Issa on Fast & Furious: AG Holder and DOJ Continue To Delay Oversight Investigation

@GOPoversight: #FastAndFurious hearing about to start. Watch live at FastAndFuriousInvestigation.com #tcot #holder #p2

@GOPoversight: REPORT: #Holder & top @TheJusticeDept officials had extensive knowledge of #FastAndFurious, did nothing: http://t.co/mIwzYfCH #tcot #p2

@KatiePavlich: "The minority report won't be much use of you because it basically says nothing happened," -Issa #fastandfurious #fact

@GOPoversight:&nbspWhen #Holder found out about gunwalking programs...he did nothing. - http://t.co/EnXXGtUn

@GOPoversight:&nbspDid #Holder discipline anyone from any gunwalking programs? -http://bit.ly/A7uTfG #fastandfurious

@GOPoversight:&nbspPutting #Holder under oath for #FastAndFurious testimony - http://t.co/EnXXGtUn

@DarrellIssa: "It's groundhog day and Brian Terry's family and taxpayers still waiting for #FastAndFurious answers from @TheJusticeDept" - @Darrelissa

@sgtbetsysmith:&nbspI can't wait to hear what #Holder & @TheJusticeDept have to say about #FastAndFurious today. Thank you @DarrellIssa for your tenacity!

@GOPoversight: #FastAndFurious hearing about to start. Watch live at FastAndFuriousInvestigation.com #tcot #holder #p2

@GOPoversight:&nbspREPORT: #Holder & top @TheJusticeDept officials had extensive knowledge of #FastAndFurious, did nothing: http://t.co/mIwzYfCH #tcot #p2

HOLDER THREATENS REPRESENTATIVE ISSA WHO TOLD HOLDER THAT CONGRESS CAN'T BE GAGGED BY A COURT ORDER THAT HOLDER THREW OUT: Holder to ISSA: "You act at your peril if you think that's the truth." #fastandfurious

HOLDER THREATENING A MEMBER OF CONGRESS!!

Representative Chaffetz says Holder is having those under him purposefully not tell him what is going on so he can claim ignorance.

received yesterday -

Attorney General Eric Holder Will Testify Thursday, Feb. 2
Watch Live

Dear Stephen,

Tomorrow Attorney General Eric Holder will be appearing before the Oversight and Government Reform Committee to testify about the Justice Department's failures in authorizing and directing deadly Operation Fast & Furious. You can watch this hearing starting at 6:00 a.m. (PST) by clicking here.

The Congressional investigation of Operation Fast & Furious is of great importance to many Americans. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department he oversees on behalf of the President have been unwilling participants in our efforts to uncover the source of responsibility in this botched gun-walking operation that knowingly allowed thousands of illegally purchased weapons to be trafficked across the border into the hands of drug cartels. Tens of thousands of Justice Department pages that document Fast & Furious have been withheld from Congressional investigators despite the issuance of subpoenas. That disregard is unacceptable.

This week I informed the Attorney General in a letter that if his department continues to obstruct the investigation, proceedings will begin to hold him in contempt of Congress. I discuss this more in the news clip posted below.

Operation Fast & Furious has already claimed the life of at least one and been the source of violent crime on both sides of the southern border. The American people have a right to know who is responsible for it, why the Justice Department let it continue, and why the truth is being stonewalled. Tomorrow we hope to get some of those answers. Remember you can watch live starting at 6:00 a.m. (PST).

Sincerely,

Darrell Issa
Member of Congress

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ISSA: Holder Will be Held in Contempt if DOJ Does Not Comply

ISSA: Holder will be held in contempt if DOJ doesn't comply with Fast and Furious Subpoena

ISSA: Holder will be held in contempt if DOJ doesn't comply with Fast and Furious Subpoena

Attorney General Eric Holder Will Testify Thursday, Feb. 2
Watch Live

Tomorrow Attorney General Eric Holder will be appearing before the Oversight and Government Reform Committee to testify about the Justice Department's failures in authorizing and directing deadly Operation Fast & Furious. You can watch this hearing starting at 6:00 a.m. (PST) by clicking here.

The Congressional investigation of Operation Fast & Furious is of great importance to many Americans. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department he oversees on behalf of the President have been unwilling participants in our efforts to uncover the source of responsibility in this botched gun-walking operation that knowingly allowed thousands of illegally purchased weapons to be trafficked across the border into the hands of drug cartels. Tens of thousands of Justice Department pages that document Fast & Furious have been withheld from Congressional investigators despite the issuance of subpoenas. That disregard is unacceptable.

This week I informed the Attorney General in a letter that if his department continues to obstruct the investigation, proceedings will begin to hold him in contempt of Congress. I discuss this more in the news clip posted below.

Operation Fast & Furious has already claimed the life of at least one and been the source of violent crime on both sides of the southern border. The American people have a right to know who is responsible for it, why the Justice Department let it continue, and why the truth is being stonewalled. Tomorrow we hope to get some of those answers. Remember you can watch live starting at 6:00 a.m. (PST).

Sincerely,

Darrell Issa
Member of Congress

We salute the DOD for stopping murder for hire under the false pretense of "National Security."

Private Spies: DOD Investigating Use Of Contractors To Track, Kill Militants

Private Spies: DOD Investigating Use Of Contractors To Track, Kill Militants

ANNE FLAHERTY and DEB RIECHMANN 03/15/10 08:05 PM ET

WASHINGTON — A Defense Department official is under investigation for allegedly hiring private contractors to gather intelligence on suspected insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a U.S. official said Monday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the case, told The Associated Press that Michael D. Furlong directed a defense contract to gather information about the region that could be shared with military units. After military officials suspected that he was using Defense Department money for an off-the-books spy operation, defense officials shut down that part of the contract, the official said.

The story was first reported by The New York Times in Monday's editions, quoting unidentified military and business sources as saying that Furlong, now a senior civilian employee at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, hired subcontractors who had former U.S. intelligence and special forces operatives on their payrolls. The newspaper said some of the information collected by the contractors was used to track down and attack militants.

"The story makes some serious allegations and raises numerous unanswered questions that warrant further review by the department," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Monday.

The military in mid-2008 put Furlong in charge of a program to use private companies to gather information about Afghanistan's political and tribal culture, the Times reported.

Part of the original $22 million contract that Furlong was directing remains intact, the official told the AP, because it provides the funding for nine workers involved in information-gathering, translation and similar work. Those workers are employed by International Media Ventures with offices in Florida, Texas and elsewhere.

Nine employees from International Media Ventures were hired by the U.S. military to serve as information analysts and in other administrative jobs at the International Security Assistance Force headquarters operations center in Kabul, said Maj. Steven Cole, a spokesman for the international military coalition in Afghanistan.

"We are not aware of, nor responsible for, any other activities performed by this company or any of its subsidiaries," Cole said.

Furlong continues to work for U.S. Strategic Command as a "strategic planner and technology integration adviser" at the Joint Information Operations Warfare Center at Lackland Air Force Base.

Master Sgt. Kevin Allen, a spokesman for U.S. Strategic Command, said Furlong began working there in February 2008 but was soon assigned to support U.S. Central Command, which oversees the war in Afghanistan.

Allen declined to make Furlong available for an interview or confirm that Furlong was under investigation.

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Riechmann reported from Kabul.

Covina arrests mystify a neighborhood

Covina arrests mystify a neighborhood

After two Mexican federal agents and two others were arrested in July on drug-related charges, little has emerged about the case and residents are puzzled.

By Paul Pringle

January 2, 2009
[http://www.latimes.com/]

The residents of North Monte Verde Drive, a stretch of oak-shaded suburban calm in the Covina area, normally would feel safe knowing that two off-duty police officers were visiting the neighborhood.

Not this time. These officers were far from home -- agents of the Mexican federal police -- and they ended up on the wrong side of a bust, with a fortune in cash that prosecutors say was tied to narcotics trafficking.

The raid in July raised the specter that the often-brutal workings of the Mexican drug trade have reached deep into Southern California. But five months later, the fuller background of the case remains a mystery.

"We all just sort of went, 'Yikes!' " Susan Wood, a longtime Monte Verde resident, said of the possible link between her neighborhood and the mayhem a country away. "This isn't a drug-trafficky area at all."

No connections to Mexican drug syndicates have been alleged in the Covina case, and defense attorneys say there are none. But speculation has been fueled by the fact that authorities have been unusually tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding the arrests and the direction of their investigation.

One of the Mexican suspects, a federal police commander based in the border city of Mexicali, is believed to have been the target of an assassination attempt there last summer, when gunmen shot up his car and killed two of his aides.

The commander, Carlos Cedano Filippini, 35, was not in the vehicle at the time. Mexican media reported that Cedano abandoned his job after the shooting.

He was the second Mexican federal officer arrested in a Southern California drug probe in three weeks. Earlier in July, agents from the state Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement arrested Omar Lugo and another man in Riverside County on suspicion of transporting 154 pounds of cocaine in their car. A judge later ordered the two suspects released, ruling in favor of defense attorneys who said officers had lacked probable cause to search the car, said Orlando Lopez, a special agent in charge for the bureau. That ruling is under appeal and an investigation is continuing, Lopez said.

Narcotics-related violence in Mexico claimed more than 5,000 lives last year, as rival drug cartels battle over smuggling routes and beleaguered government forces press a crackdown. The spoils of the carnage are narcotics bound for the United States -- Southern California is a top trans-shipment point -- but there have been few outward signs here of cartel operations and attendant bloodshed.

Like Wood, other Monte Verde residents said they know nothing about the case beyond what they had learned in news reports, and very little about the occupants of the spacious home where the Mexicans were taken into custody. Some residents were fearful of being quoted by name.

"It's like a TV show," a neighbor said of the case.

Arrested along with the agents were two U.S. citizens, siblings Hector and Julissa Lopez. Their parents, who live in the 4,800-square-foot house at the end of a long driveway, have not been implicated, authorities say.

Julissa Lopez, 36, is the common-law wife of Cedano, the commander from Mexico's Federal Investigative Agency, that nation's equivalent of the FBI. Also charged is one of Cedano's officers, Victor M. Juarez, 36.

The four have pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court on charges of possessing more than $630,000 as part of an alleged drug transaction. If convicted, they face a maximum of four years in prison.

A stakeout team of narcotics investigators stormed the house and spotted the defendants walking out of a bedroom, according to prosecutors. Seized along with the suitcase full of cash were a money-counting machine, other bundles of currency, heat-sealable packets for the bills, and lists of payments and debts for narcotics, authorities say. Defense attorneys have said the lists were innocent jottings of family activities.

No drugs were found, but a police dog trained to sniff out narcotics residue showed a positive response to the suitcase and to other items in the bedroom, investigators say.

A preliminary hearing provided scant insight into the probe, with testimony focusing mainly on details of the surveillance and search of the house.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Oscar Plascencia, who is prosecuting the case, declined to comment, as did officials of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Los Angeles Police Department, which are conducting the investigation. Shortly after the arrests, a DEA spokeswoman said the stakeout team had not expected to encounter Mexican agents at the house, but she did not elaborate.

Mexican authorities did not return phone calls.

Robert I. Friedman Red Mafiya Jewish or Russian Mafia ?

Here - Robert I. Friedman Red Mafiya Jewish or Russian Mafia ?:

Very revealing and compelling online book. I highly recommend it for its forthright character. As I have said elsewhere, for those interested, quit looking for a overweaning Jewish only conspiracy to blame for everything. That is, I might say, a racist viewpoint in the first place. They are involved, but with a large number of gentiles at the same time. This shows the involvement of Jews in Communist/post-Communist (though Putin and the Communists are still in charge) crime in Russia and spreading from there to many places. That actually has been a very long time element of the transnational criminal underworld; which underworld has ethnicities of all sorts. By the way, they don't obey the law in the first place, so why would anyone expect them to observe national borders? Hence the transnational character is very real and a very important aspect of what they are all about.

A brief excerpt to show the inside development of what is revealed.

Robert Friedman Red Mafiya Jewish Mafia or Russian mafia 4/6

TARZAN 151
circles to have a criminal lineage that could be traced to Meyer Lansky, the mobster who once boasted that the Mafia was bigger than U.S. Steel. According to Brighton Beach gangster Vladimir Ginzberg, the Russian mobsters, out of deference, call the energetic, silver-haired Seidle Stariyk, the Russian word for "old man." (Seidle denies that he knew Lansky or has ever done business with organized crime.) Brent Eaton, a veteran DEA agent, says that Seidle has been under investigation by numerous federal agencies for more than twenty years, although he has never been indicted. "Bill Seidle is a great guy," William Lehman, a former Democra­tic congressman, told me. Lehman, who represented South Florida for twenty years, said Seidle "enjoyed Tarzan's out-rageousness. I've know Bill for fifty years and he's always run a kosher business. There are no blemishes."
Seidle took a shine to Tarzan the moment they met. "Tarzan was a boisterous, big-mouthed Yiddel," Seidle told me in a Yiddish drawl, one hot, buggy day in Miami. "He's a Jewboy, you know. Just a big-mouth kid, always bragging, boisterous, but very nice, very kind ... I would describe him as a very, very dear friend. I was close to him. He was close to our family. They loved Tarzan. They think a lot of him. They still feel the same."

It is apparent from this example that the Russian mobsters schmooze everybody they can, when it is in their interests. Bottom line though, they are the worst of the worst of criminals.

What occurs here to the thinking person is the extremely real potential and probability of the transnational underworld being used by Intelligence Saboteurs for undermining regimes throughout the world.

If you want a real factually based look into the Russian mob in the United States and U.S. Law enforcement righteous fight against them read this book.

This brief excerpt below shows how they are heavily involved in the transnational drug trade. From other sources we know that the shadow "government" in transnational Intelligence gathering and subversion bases themselves largely in this vile trade. That "shadow government" has never, for all their Freemasonic base and internecine plots and acts of illegal usurpation, been a real or lawful government of anyone anywhere.

Robert Friedman Red Mafiya Jewish Mafia or Russian mafia 4/6

152 RED MAFIYA

lights and a landing strip. Tarzan boasted to at least two gov­ernment undercover agents that he was using aircraft to ferry in tons of marijuana from Jamaica. He allegedly even recruited his geeky-looking younger brother, Alex, to mule seven large, green garbage bags stuffed with marijuana from New York City to Porky's. "Alex was so afraid of being robbed that immediately after receiving the drugs, he spent the night in a New York City hotel rather than at his own home; he then drove the entire trip without stopping for the night because he was convinced that he would be apprehended carrying the drugs," asserts a federal wiretap affidavit.
Marijuana was, for Tarzan, a gateway drug. Before long, he had moved on to cocaine. At the time, the Russian Mafiya had little contact with the Colombian drug cartels, though they were eager to remedy that failing. Tarzan helped forge a connection, brokering cocaine deals between the Colombians and the most powerful mob family in St. Petersburg. In one instance, according to the DEA, he smuggled more than one hundred kilos of cocaine in crates of freeze-dried shrimp that were flown from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to St. Petersburg. He also ran coke directly out of Miami, a charge he hotly denies. The street price for cocaine in Russia was $60,000 per kilo; for every kilo, Tarzan made a thousand dollars.

A very informative and compelling and readable book. By all means read it. And keep in mind and support all the brave FBI and DEA and other law enforcement agencies and individual law officers that fight against this plague.