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These cases. and i believe what we have done today has strengthened the environment for successful prosecutions and it will support the victims. we have taken out of the chain of command the review. so if a commander doesn't agree with a lawyer, then it goes straight up to the civilian secretary of that branch of the military. no uniform. secondly, if both the lawyer and the commander say you know we don't want to handle this, it gets another review. the most important thing we have worry about in this area is retaliation against the victim. in what we passed today, unlike the previous proposa...

>> one conundrum for him, the committee's ranking democrat elijah cummings released additional excerpts directly contradicting his claims. he says he'll release the full transcripts by friday if issa doesn't do it. issa doesn't want the full letter released. he pushed you're pushed to release entire transcripts while the investigation remains active was reckless and threatened to undermine the integrity of the committee's investigation. if a full transcript were released it would serve as a road map of the investigation. it could be used by future witnesses and their attorneys to device testim...

>> one conundrum for him, the committee's ranking democrat elijah cummings released additional excerpts directly contradicting his claims. cummings says he'll release the full transcripts by friday if issa doesn't do it. issa now doesn't want the full letter released. in a letter to cummings, he said he pushed you're pushed to release entire transcripts while the investigation remains active was reckless and threatened to undermine the integrity of the committee's investigation. if a full transcript were released it would serve as a road map of the investigation. the transcript could be used b...

Compromise with house republican leaders over this fast and furious probe in order to avoid a contempt of congress vote. now, california congressman darrell issa, chairman of the house oversight and government reform committee had threatened to hold the vote after holder declined to turn over some documents that he says detailed the department's internal discussions over the controversial program. issa responded to holder's office in a letter saying that he's willing to meet with the attorney general to discuss a deal. bottom line is, house republican issa doesn't really have the votes on this...

Darrell issa says the doj has yet to provide a single document in 12 of the 22 including who let the justice department should have known about fast and furious. how the department concluded the operation was fundamentally flawed. and why the fbi and the d.e.a. never told the atf targets were already on the federal payroll as informants. >> this is very much like what richard nixon dealt with he said i give you what i want. the president does it's legal. ultimately the courts repeatedly sided that he was wrong. >> now this is not a finding of contempt. that requires a vote. but it does lay out...