GOP Oversight Chair Admits There Is No Evidence Of White House Involvement In Fast And Furious

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[URL="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/06/24/505180/gop-oversight-chair-admits-there-is-no-evidence-of-white-house-involvement-in-fast-and-furious/"]ThinkProgress[/URL]
[quote]Last week, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH)[URL="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/06/20/503031/fact-check-executive-privilege-does-not-apply-exclusively-to-presidential-communications/"]claimed[/URL] that the White House decision to invoke executive privilege to prevent the release of some documents related to the “Fast and Furious” investigation indicated some sort of admission of a White House cover-up.

Today, pressed by[I]Fox News Sunday[/I] host Chris Wallace, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) admitted that there is absolutely no evidence to back up Boehner’s allegation:

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WALLACE: Do you have any evidence that White House officials were involved in these decisions, that they knowingly misled Congress, and are involved in a cover-up?

ISSA: [B]No, we don’t.[/B] And what we are seeking are documents that we know to exist, February 4 to December [2011] that are in fact about [murdered Border Patrol agent] Brian Terry’s murder, who knew, and why people were lying about it…

WALLACE: [B]I want to be clear, because we’ve got to get out, no evidence that the White House is involved in the cover up?
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ISSA: [B]And I hope they don’t get involved. [/B][/quote]
Watch the video:
[video=youtube;m2NBnXKEVNw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2NBnXKEVNw[/video]

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So no watergate-esque conspiracy here

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Nobody who believed this was a coverup before will stop now, though.