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Republican reaction to attorney general's plan to hand over Fast & Furious documents
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For months of pressure attorney general Eric Holder saying that he will hand over some of the internal emails and operation fast and furious holder calls us a quote.
Extraordinary accommodation.
A letter to -- -- and he writes we believe that this briefing in the documents we are prepared to provide.
Will fully address the remaining concerns identified in the recent letters to me.
From you and house leadership South Carolina congressman -- down.
A Republican -- member of the House Judiciary Committee has been quite vocal about this and he's with me live in his home state Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Extraordinary accommodation would you think of that.
I'm actually not interested in an extraordinary combination -- -- settle for something much simpler which is just compliance with the subpoena.
That we -- to almost a year ago so.
I I don't know what extraordinary combination is of the world and I live in congress -- a constitutional responsibility.
To provide oversight and provide answers we requested documents.
Either the document requests is a legitimate which case you should comply with a fully.
Or is not legitimate and you should cycle legal privilege that -- relying on.
That the word extraordinary combination not a political phrase that's not a legal phrase comply with the subpoena.
And then we'll tell you how extraordinary -- Watch what you want to find out of mortgages drill through all this is whether or not top officials at Justice Department.
Whether or not they were blind sided by this operation whether they had a heads up is that basically it.
Whether to things and you touched on.
On on one album who knew what it -- Jake and and the reality is we already have an off.
Proof.
To prove conclusively that senior level officials -- DOJ -- -- go and walking well wolf for Brian Terry was -- We just need to know whether they're still there whether they've been sanctioned discipline.
How would happen so we can prevent it from happening again the only thing that I'm interested in -- -- there was a letter.
-- drafted.
Delivered -- fourth 2011 from DOJ to a United States senator.
Which was demonstrably false and calculated to mislead.
I want to know how long letter that -- could have been drafted -- DOJ letter ahead.
Deliver to the United States and it.
And withdrawn only ten months.
Ten months.
After you figured out it was faults.
That undercuts the integrity the department of justice and I wanna know who participated in the drafting of that letter.
Regardless of -- -- not the attorney general wants to tell us or not.
He's gonna tell us or he's gonna be -- the wrong side of history -- McLemore.
Question he calls this a serious good faith effort to meet with Darrell ice -- possibly on Monday.
Is that satisfactory.
Well let me see it's been sixteen months.
He's waited until the eve of trial I'm not a fan of courthouse step plea negotiations.
This is -- going -- for twelve months.
So -- told to wait until two days before -- scheduled to go to trial so to speak.
To start Wheeling and dealing this as a bridge we're not haggling over used -- This is congress exercising it's constitutional responsibility.
I'm not -- -- negotiating.
There will be headlines on Monday regardless -- -- thank you for your time in Spartanburg south thank you have do we.
