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Al Charlatan's Atlanta HQ admits to handing out bogus stimulus check forms.

Does anyone get the impression Issa is keeping his powder dry so that he can drop bombs during election season?

Does that really matter, though? He's not running for President or anything; he's just running an investigation.

No doubt...but in the end, it's about the investigation and evidence. All Issa has to do is his job. I imagine there will be a special prosecutor at some point, who will take it and run with it.

Great summation.

I personally don't care about Solyndra. Hello Halliburton! The administration looks bad, they deserve to look bad, and it will certainly be used against them.

As for the gun thing, I don't know too much about it, surely due to the MSM coverup to protect Dear Leader Obama. From what I've read, I certainly don't believe it was some conspiracy to get American guns in the cartels' hands (they already have plenty), as much as it looks like a really stupid way to try to get info/combat them. If the DOJ gets caught lying about it, they deserve to be investigated. Not sure what you want me to say? I'm voting for Mittens now?

This whole thing was a colossal fail on 100 levels, but LOL at the idea of this leading to the criminal prosecution of Eric Holder.

Almost anything is possible; I just don't think it's remotely likely. I've admittedly not followed this very closely, but criminal prosecution of him on what grounds?

Not exactly the same thing, but yeah, I'm curious what the slam dunk crime is even if he knew about it from the start.

Unfortunately, stupidity and/or being really bad at your job is not an indictable offense.

I have absolutely no idea why you think that's true. Do you realize how big the Dept. of Justice is and how many countless programs are going on at any given time? I think it's far more likely that this (and almost any other program) goes on without his knowledge than with. And even memos addressed to him back in the day don't convince me of much regarding his knowledge. Almost everyone probably writes/files away a CYA memo about this stuff. I think Holder's bigger problem here (assuming, of course, that he isn't flat out lying) is that you can't exactly come out and say, "um, there might be memos addressed to me, but I didn't read/focus in on that."

Heck, you don't even have to be the Attorney General of the United States to have that problem. Plenty of corporate executives etc. get caught up in this mess when some random accountant somewhere writes them a memo about something and they get caught up in some huge accounting fraud without consciously authorizing improper conduct.

Yes, I'd imagine that perjury is a much more real concern. It's never the crime; it's always the coverup.

CBS News investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson -- who's been covering the scandal from the beginning -- says in an interview on the Laura Ingraham Show today that the White House and Justice Department have taken to screaming at her for reporting on the story. You can listen to the full interview below, but here are the key excerpts from Attkisson:

In between the yelling that I received from Justice Department yesterday, the spokeswoman--who would not put anything in writing, I was asking for her explanation so there would be clarity and no confusion later over what had been said, she wouldn't put anything in writing--so we talked on the phone and she said things such as the question Holder answered was different than the one he asked. But he phrased it, he said very explicitly, 'I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.'

Ingraham: So they were literally screaming at you?

Attkisson: Yes. Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. [Laura: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?] Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House."

Finally, Attkisson notes that the White House is claiming that a thorough investigation of the scandal is unwarranted:

[The White House and Justice Department] will tell you that I'm the only reporter--as they told me--that is not reasonable. They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I'm the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I'm unfair and biased by pursuing it.