Holder To Testify on February 2 About Fast & Furious

The Department of Justice is going to the mattresses over Fast and Furious. On February 2 Eric Holder is again to testify before Darrell Issa's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Big Government is reporting that the DOJ will refuse to comply with the subpoena that has been issued. Readers will remember the famous letter of February 4, 2011 letter to Senator Grassley that the DOJ withdrew because it contained "inaccuracies". Now DOJ has said in effect that Congress must settle for half truths that's it.

According to the letter, in December 2011 the DOJ “explicitly informed the Committee that it would not deliver subpoenaed documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious created after February 4, 2011.” Moreover, “in interviews with committee investigators, senior Justice Department officials who had management responsibilities for Operation Fast and Furious have also refused to answer questions about decisions and conversations that occurred after February 4, 2011.”

The White House has refused to provide Congress with the documents it sought in the Solyndra scandal. Now DOJ follows the same course. Do not be surprised when the calls for special prosecutor begin.