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title="AmmoLand Reports" href="http://www.ammoland.com/" target="_self">Ammoland.com)- “During your testimony before the Committee last week, you pledged to work with Congress to find a way to make the wiretap applications from the Fast and Furious investigation available for congressional review,” Chairman Darrell Issa of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Patrick Meehan, and Ranking Member Charles Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday.
“The contents of the wiretap applications are central in determining the level of involvement of senior Department officials during the pendency of Operation Fast and Furious,” their letter continues.
Citing requirements to determine “legal sufficiency to make an application,” they advise Holder “The federal wiretap statute describes what this legal sufficiency entails, requiring that the application include “a full and complete statement of facts and circumstances justifying the application.”
They also remind Holder his testimony “that wiretap applications ‘don’t always go into all of the techniques that are used in a particular investigation’” falls far short of that standard.
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