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The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has scheduled a meeting for June 20 to consider issuing a contempt citation for Attorney General Eric Holder, in connection with the Committee’s ongoing investigation into the ill-advised Operation Fast and Furious, under which the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives [ATF] recklessly allowed approximately 2000 U.S. weapons to flow across the border into the hands of Mexican drug cartel members. Weapons found near the site where Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered were among those that the ATF allowed to fall into the hands of the Mexican criminal syndicates. Last May, Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released an extensive memo in support of holding Holder in contempt, based upon Holder’s failure to fully comply with an October, 2001 subpoena for information relating to the committee’s investigation into Operation Fast and Furious. …

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