Former Tucson Drug Enforcement Administration chief Tony Coulson told The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder either knew guns were walking during Operation Fast and Furious, or should have known about the deadly practice. (more)
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told The Daily Caller on Monday that Obama administration cabinet officials’ unwillingness to talk to Attorney General Eric Holder about Operation Fast and Furious is like an “air of indictment.” (more)
During his testimony about Operation Fast and Furious before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last week, Attorney General Eric Holder said that he still hasn’t discussed the deadly scandal with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano or President Barack Obama. (more)
New York Republican Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle tussled with Attorney General Eric Holder during Thursday morning’s House oversight committee hearing over her demand that he resign or be fired as a result of Operation Fast and Furious, the gun-walking program that occurred on his watch. (more)
White House spokesman Jay Carney today declared that President Barack Obama has full confidence in his controversial Attorney General Eric Holder, despite the controversy over the department’s “Operation Fast and Furious” international gun-running program. (more)
Attorney General Eric Holder stopped paying attention during a line of questioning from Tennessee Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais in the middle of Thursday’s House oversight committee hearing about Operation Fast and Furious. (more)
The head of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and Attorney General Eric Holder’s highest-ranking deputy, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, called Operation Fast and Furious and gun walking a “terrific idea” in emails to now-former Acting Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Ken Melson back in late 2009, according a report released by Republican staff of the House Oversight Committee. (more)
A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller that at least two DOJ prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted under court seal within the past 13 months, but never arrested or prosecuted. (more)
Arizona Republican Rep. Ben Quayle on Wednesday evening dropped legislation that would serve as a formal call for President Barack Obama to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Operation Fast and Furious. (more)
Kim DotCom and MegaUpload helped fill out the cyberlocker’s video library in 2006 by snatching videos from the then-fledgling YouTube, the U.S. government alleges. (more)
A document the Department of Justice sent to Congress Friday shows that Eric Holder’s deputy chief of staff was made aware on the day of U.S. border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder that a weapon traced back to Operation Fast and Furious killed him. But when asked Sunday, a Justice spokesperson would not would not answer The Daily Caller’s question about whether Attorney General Eric Holder himself was informed of the connection on that day. (more)
In a letter obtained by The Daily Caller, House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Lamar Smith warned Attorney General Eric Holder not to permit the transfer of funds from a recent $335 million Department of Justice settlement to organizations associated with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, more commonly known as ACORN, or other advocacy groups allied with President Obama. (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)
Five days after the Justice Department’s takedown of popular Hong Kong-based file-sharing network MegaUpload, Hollywood astroturf group Creative America posted an anti-piracy video claiming that U.S. law currently prevents the DOJ from taking down foreign-based sites that facilitate copyright infringement. (more)
The Justice Department‘s 2011 revenues from the prosecution of criminal antitrust offenders were up 78 percent from the previous year, and totaled over $1 billion, according to a January 9 report from the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm. (more)
Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler told The Daily Caller that the federal Motor Voter law was set up to “ensure controversy” and that the Obama administration is using it “to advance a political agenda.” (more)
BALTIMORE, Md. — During a House GOP retreat in Baltimore on Friday, press secretaries for Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor balked when asked if their bosses believe Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over Operation Fast and Furious. (more)
Following a major Thursday evening cyber-assault by hacktivist collective Anonymous, the Justice Department’s website was taken offline. The site crashed yet again Friday afternoon. (more)
Hell hath no fury like a hacker scorned. (more)
