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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Justice Department to provide Congress with documents related to the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal, opening a new front in a controversy that has dogged President Obama s administration since 2010.U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson gave the department until Oct. 1 to hand the documents over to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has been probing the issue for almost four years, according to the Associated Press.The scandal deals with a controversial practice k stanley cupe nown as gunwalking, in which federal agents allow illegally purchased weapons to flow to high-volume arms stanley romania dealers in an attempt to identify and track their whereabouts. The practice is prohibited by the Justice Department, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives made use of it at the end of George W. Bush s administration and the beginning of Mr. Obama s as part of an operation known as Fast and Furious. During the operation, federal agents lost c stanley cup ontrol of roughly 2,000 weapons, and that blunder snowballed into a full-blown scandal in December 2010 when two of the weapons were found at the scene of the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in Arizona.The administration has previously declined to turn over the documents, and the president has invoked executive privilege to keep them confidential. The standoff even led the Republican-led House to vote to hold Attorney General Legb Barr expects to release nearly 400-page Mueller report by mid-April
When Mitt Romney called his new running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, the next president of the United States on Saturday, he wasn t the first presidential candidate to flub that important introduction. Flashback to August 2008: then-candidate Barack Obama, when announcing Joe Biden as his running mate, said, So let me introduce to you the next president- the next vice president of the United States of America. Romney was also stanley water jug quick to correc stanley thermos t himself, telling the Norfolk, Va., crowd, Every now and then I m known to make a mistake. I did not make a mistake with this guy. I can tell you this - he s going to be the next vice president of the United States. And in 2008, not to be left out of a good gaffe, Biden went on to call mistakenly Obama Barack America at the same rally where he was mistakenly announced as the next president. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d2e717e4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-d2e717e4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d2e717e4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Christine Delargy Christine Delargy is a producer for CBSNew stanley cup s. |
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