Rahm Emanuel: Darrell Issa ‘Reckless’ for Releasing Libya Documents
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel lashed out at Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif, Sunday morning on This Week after the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee posted sensitive State Department cables relating to Liby…
Rep. Darrell Issa Demands Details on White House Email Use
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The powerful chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, Friday escalated a showdown with the White House over use of personal email accounts to conduct official g…
House Report Cites Five Former ATF Officials in Fast and Furious Operation
David De Lossy/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The White House and Senate must improve the leadership of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to a draft report that was critical of the government’s botched “Operation Fast and Fu…
Darrell Issa Writes Obama to Denounce Executive Privilege Ploy
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, has sent a letter to President Obama that challenges the president’s invocation of executive privilege as the committee …
No Fast and Furious Cover-Up, Obama Aide Claims
Comstock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Asked about the President’s assertion of executive privilege in the Congressional investigation of the Fast and Furious matter, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney quickly jumped on what committee Chairman Re…
White House Invokes Executive Privilege on ‘Fast and Furious’ Docs
Pete Souza/The White House(WASHINGTON) — The White House has invoked executive privilege over documents at the center of the stand-off between Attorney General Eric Holder and Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Gover…
White House Invokes Executive Privilege on ‘Fast and Furious’ Docs
Pete Souza/The White House(WASHINGTON) — The White House has invoked executive privilege over documents at the center of the stand-off between Attorney General Eric Holder and Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Gover…
Contempt Vote Still Planned for Wednesday After Issa Rejects Holder’s Proposal
Mark Wilson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Eric Holder took a brief ride from the Department of Justice to the Capitol late Tuesday afternoon to meet with top lawmakers from both parties, trying to avoid an embarrassing contempt vote sche…
Fast & Furious: Issa Says AG Holder Is ‘Not a Good Witness’
Mark Wilson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before the House Judiciary Committee, marking the eighth time he has appeared before Congress to testify about the ATF’s botched gun running operation. Holder faced num…
Rep. Darrell Issa Threatens AG Eric Holder with Contempt of Congress
Mark Wilson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The undercover, gun-walking operation was called “Fast and Furious.”Now, some furious congressional investigators want to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for allegedly blocki…
Secret Service Agents Brought Prostitutes in ‘Contact with Sensitive Info’
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The partying U.S. Secret Service agents and officers who allegedly brought prostitutes into their Cartagena, Colombia, hotel rooms brought the call girls “into contact with sensitive security information,&rd…