eck eastboundtive agencies which are creatures congress. created by congress. funded by congress. are supposed to investigate. the effect will be to delay matters until probably after the election. that i think satisfies the obama white house and the hol holder justice department's purposes here which is to put this off. >> chris: let me just again for people who haven't been follo following the key he here is that in february of 2011 the justice department sent a letter to congress denying that there had ever been a gun walking operation to allow guns to be bought in this country and sent over the border to mexican drug cartels. denied that it ever happened. by december of 2011 they had to retract that and say no, in fact there had been and it was operation fast and furious. what darrell issa the chairman is seeking are those documents which at the least, kirsten would say obviously as they are scrambling around and realizeig at some point that the denial is false they are trying to sort this olympic out and figure out how to handle it and conceivabley covering up who