ISSA: 'Operation Choke Point' is Illegal, Must be Dismantled

The Justice Department's “Operation Choke Point” is so flagrantly illegal it cannot continue in any form under the law, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Charman Darrell Issa's staff said in a new report, setting up a constitutional confrontation between the legislative and executive branches of the federal government.
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DOJ has said the program is targeted at fraud, but the oversight committee report provided evidence the program was "was created by the Justice Department to 'choke out' companies the Administration considers a 'high risk' or otherwise objectionable, despite the fact that they are legal businesses."

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FOX: Justice Department secretly obtained AP phone records

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. ✧ The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls. Read more at Fox News... Read More......

Sheriff Paul Babeu weighs in on 'Fast and Furious'

9/27/2011 - Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu implicated the ATF, Eric Holder and the Obama Justice Department as 'accomplices' to murder involving weapons used in Operation Fast and Furious.

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Justice Officials in 'Panic Mode' over pending hearings

FOXNEWS.COM, 6/10/2011 by William La Jeunesse - Officials at the Department of Justice are in "panic mode," according to multiple sources, as word spreads that congressional testimony next week will paint a bleak and humiliating picture of Operation Fast and Furious, the botched undercover operation that left a trail of blood from Mexico to Washington, D.C. Read more at Fox...

The public refers to the debacle as 'Operation Gunrunner.' --bc Read More......