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In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, House government oversight chairman Rep. Darrell Issa wrote Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice has “misrepresented facts and misled Congress.” (more)

1.) Newtosaurus Sex — As you surely have learned by now, Newt Gingrich operates on a different plane than most ordinary mortals. His ideas are bigger by at least a factor of 3 — or so he would argue. Which is why it comes as no surprise that he was thinking about space sex before anyone else. TheDC’s Will Rahn reports: (more)

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa is demanding that Attorney General Eric Holder provide a new witness for a transcribed interview with Congress about Fast and Furious: The assistant to the Department of Justice official who pled the Fifth Amendment. (more)

House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa told The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder owes an apology to the Mexican government and to the families of Operation Fast and Furious victims south of the border. (more)

Department of Justice official Patrick Cunningham has reportedly planned to plead the Fifth Amendment to avoid incriminating himself in response to a subpoena House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa served him that will compel him to appear before Congress about Operation Fast and Furious. (more)

A House committee looking into the flawed gun smuggling investigation called Operation Fast and Furious has subpoenaed a federal prosecutor in Arizona for questioning. (more)

Opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the bill that threatens to block large swathes of foreign websites for alleged copyright infringement, have complained that Congress has yet to hear their voice. (more)

Newly surfaced confidential documents show credit agency Standard and Poor’s considered Beacon Power — a now-bankrupt green energy storage company — a risky investment, even with the $43 million loan guarantee President Barack Obama’s Energy Department was planning to, and eventually did give the company. (more)

Attorney General Eric Holder will testify about Operation Fast and Furious before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Feb. 2. (more)

If the mainstream media had their way, President John Kerry would likely be in the final year of his second term. Vice President John Edwards might be a leading candidate in the 2012 Democratic primary. In this alternate universe, John Kerry’s three-month stint in Vietnam would be a footnote in his storied rise to power. And most Americans wouldn’t know that he acquired three purple hearts without bleeding in battle. (more)

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith’s anti-piracy bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), caused significant waves on its maiden voyage into congressional waters. New criticisms of the legislative proposal, however, make the Justice Department walk the plank. (more)

House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa has formally requested Attorney General Eric Holder‘s presence before his committee on Jan. 24, 2012, in a hearing that will examine Operation Fast and Furious. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four House lawmakers received VIP discounted loans from the former Countrywide Financial Corp., the lender whose subprime mortgages was largely responsible for the nation’s foreclosure crisis, according to congressional investigators. (more)

House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa said on Friday that he thinks the groundswell in calls for Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation, a topic that most recently took center stage at the GOP debate in Iowa Thursday night, is a sign that changes are needed at the Justice Department. (more)

Miss Ginger Lee, the Tennessee adult-film actress who once called disgraced former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner her “trifecta of win,” does not like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The porn star, with whom Weiner once exchanged racy photos, reblogged on her Tumblr account Wednesday a post written on the Tumblr staff blog opposing SOPA. (more)

In a statement released Tuesday, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa criticized an amendment proposed by Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, saying it does not fix anything and would give “Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice broad new powers to police the Internet.” (more)

House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa says the White House is AWOL while the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is paralyzed by a internal political fight. (more)

House Oversight chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and fellow backers of a new online piracy bill offered in the House as an alternative to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act have posted the bill’s text on the Internet in hopes of soliciting feedback from the public on its provisions. (more)

A largely overlooked exchange from Thursday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing includes what appears to be an admission from Attorney General Eric Holder that emails to and from him about Operation Fast and Furious may exist, and that he’s refusing to provide them to Congress. (more)

Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson accused the tea party movement and the National Rifle Association of creating an “manufactured” controversy over Operation Fast and Furious Thursday. (more)