Court Forces Justice Department to Turn Over 64,280 ‘Fast and Furious’ Documents

Pete Kasperowicz theblaze.com The Obama administration late Monday handed over tens of thousands of documents to Congress related to the “Fast and Furious” gun walking operation, after a federal judge ordered them to be released. The document dump is a victory for House Republicans who have been seeking these papers for years. Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said the court order shows the administration had no right to keep the records from Congress as it investigated the botched plan to track weapons as they were shipped to Mexican drug cartels. Attorney General was ultimately held in contempt by the House over his failure to produce these and other “Fast and Furious” papers, and Issa said the contempt vote was now clearly appropriate. “When Eric Holder wants to know why he was the first Attorney General held in criminal contempt of Congress, he can read the judge’s order that compelled the production of 64,280 pages that he and President Obama illegitimately and illegally withheld from Congress,” Issa said. to read more: theblaze.com