House Oversight Committee's Fast and Furious Fact Sheet :: 06/13/2012

Oversight Committee Schedules June 20 Contempt Vote over Operation Fast and Furious Documents

• Yesterday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa announced that the House Oversight Committee will convene to consider a contempt of Congress report for Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday, June 20.

• This comes after repeated warnings to the Attorney General about the consequences of his continued failure to produce subpoenaed documents related to the reckless conduct that occurred in Operation Fast and Furious - a failed ATF effort that allowed weapons to flow to Mexican drug cartels in an effort to build a bigger case against a smuggling syndicate.

• The Oversight Committee recently announced that it has obtained six applications for wiretaps (for monitoring phones of suspects) from Operation Fast and Furious . These documents contain rich details about what occurred in Operation Fast and Furious. They also indicate that senior officials in the Department's Criminal Division were given details of the operation's reckless tactics but still approved the applications.