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The GOP-led House voted Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to provide key information pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, clinic making Holder the first sitting Cabinet member to be held in contempt. The vote was 255-67, story with 17 Democrats breaking ranks to side with Republicans in [...] The parents of murdered border agent Brian Terry told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday that they think Attorney General Eric Holder and other Justice Department officials are “hiding something” in their response to the botched anti-gunrunning operation Fast and Furious. The operation let illicit guns “walk” in the hope of tracking them to bigger [...] With the House committee voting Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt, the stalemate between the Obama administration and Congress ultimately boils down to about 1,300 documents. Congress wants to know who prepared a February 4, 2011 letter where the Obama administration claimed that the U.S. did not knowingly help smuggle guns to [...] In a slap at gun-rights advocates, the Mexican ambassador to the U.S. dismissed accusations that Mexico is seeking to undermine the Second Amendment in order to curb the influx of U.S.-purchased guns. “There is an ‘urban myth’ out there that somehow the Mexican government is seeking to lobby against and destroy the rights enshrined in [...] The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S. The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as ‘attack’, ‘Al Qaeda’, ‘terrorism’ and ‘dirty bomb’ alongside dozens of [...] A Marine who shot and killed a nude intruder in self defense will not be facing prosecution. The story behind this event, as reported by The Daily News, is an odd one. David Darling, a 22-year-old North Carolina resident, was running up and down a neighborhood street buck naked shouting, “This is the worst trip [...] A new sentencing date has been set for two men who admitted to participating in a gun smuggling ring that was investigated by the federal government in Operation Fast and Furious. Jacob Wayne Chambers and Jacob Anthony Montelongo had been scheduled to be sentenced on Monday for their earlier guilty pleas to one conspiracy charge. [...] Authorities say a helicopter helped Pinal County deputies on Wednesday seize more than a ton of marijuana and two vehicles, and expose a suspected smuggling camp. A Sheriff’s Office helicopter was called to assist the West Desert Task Force, made up of Pinal County deputies and several federal agencies, to track a suspected drug load [...] A week after the discovery of 18 bodies left inside two vans, mind located less than 200 meters from the asphalt of the highway Guadalajara-Chapala, agents of the state Public Security Secretariat (SSP) secured a arsenal in a safe house for rent at Rancho del Oro in Ajijic. Police authorities noted that the material seized [...] |
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