Lawmaker sets deadline for Holder to avoid contempt citation [View all]
Source: Reuters
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON | Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:42pm EDT
(Reuters) - U.S. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said on Tuesday that he would move forward with a contempt citation against Attorney General Eric Holder unless Holder turns over documents by Wednesday morning involving a botched operation to track guns smuggled to Mexico.
Holder said after meeting Issa late on Tuesday afternoon that he thought he had made a fair offer to provide documents and a briefing to the committee.
"The ball is in their court," Holder said. "They rejected what I thought was an extraordinary offer on our part."
He said the Justice Department would provide the materials and answer questions about them as long as the committee considered that as satisfying its earlier subpoena.
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