In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, House government oversight chairman Rep. Darrell Issa wrote Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice has “misrepresented facts and misled Congress.”
Issa set a Feb. 9 deadline for Holder to obey his committee’s Oct. 12, 2011, subpoena, and threatened the attorney general with a contempt of Congress charge if he falls short of “full compliance.”
Issa wrote that Holder and the DOJ are “actively engaged in a cover-up” of activities related to Operation Fast and Furious, a scandal-plagued and ill-fated “gunwalking” program designed to track firearms from U.S. gun shops to drug cartels in Mexico. The operation used “straw purchasers” who purposely — and with government permission — bought guns with the unlawful intention of moving them across the border.
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