Charles Grassley

If you're a military whistleblower, we wouldn't blame you for feeling like your reprisal complaint went into one of these. By BRYAN RAHIJA Pentagon investigators mishandled more than half of a set of whistleblower reprisal cases, according to a damning internal assessment report obtained by the Project On Government Oversight.  The Washington Post and iWatch News published stories on the assessment over the weekend.  As POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian told iWatch's R. Jeffrey Smith...Read Full Story

Senator Charles Grassley (R–IA,) who looks like if you aged a high school debate captain by preserving his face and shrinking his skeleton. Remember back in 2009, when the commentariat explained Chuck Grassley’s virulent attacks on health care reform and the Panel to Evaluate the Life of Grandma by saying that he was going to retire soon? It turns out that, like golf, dicketry is a lifetime hobby. Speaking to Radio Iowa yesterday, Grassley called for a review of the White House investigation...Read Full Story

Kansas City StarGrassley not satisfied with Secret Service clean up, presses for full ...Fox NewsApril 25, 2012: Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking member listens to testimony from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on Capitol Hill in Washington, during the committee's hearing on the Secret Service ...Secret Service issues stricter behavior standardsCBS NewsSenator calls for independent Secret Service probeBoston.comSecret Service beefs up...Read Full Story

April 19 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Charles Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, talks about his briefing on the investigation into allegations that Secret Service employees consorted with prostitutes while preparing for President Barack Obama's arrival at a Latin American summit in Colombia. The incident has resulted in the removal of three Secret Service agents to date. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness with Margaret Brennan." (Source: Bloomberg)Read Full Story

What is going on in the GOP lately? Are they all insane? Why are they continually doing the wrong thing? If there is a law – it’s for all – not just the few I’m not in favor of illegal aliens either but they deserve the same rights under our laws as long as they live in our country. Check this out The Domestic Violence laws that the Republicans once honored are being contested now by them because it includes: gays and immigrants! What are they on? ————————————– Bonju Grassley Holds Domestic...Read Full Story

Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Strike Force The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is threatening to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if he fails to comply with congressional subpoenas for documents.  Holder has until Feb. 9 to comply. In a four-page letter to Holder, Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., claims the Department of Justice has “misrepresented facts and misled Congress,” which began its investigation of Operation...Read Full Story

Senator Grassley Ups the Ante, Calls for Assistant A.G.'s Resignation from Senate Floor AmmoLand Gun News Washington DC - -(Ammoland.com)- On October 18, 2010, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer sent communiqués to Attorney General Eric Holder alerting the A.G. that indictments over Fast and Furious could be forthcoming.This alert came on the heels of briefings on Fast and Furious which were sent to Holder at least as early July 2010.Yet although Fast and Furious was the topic of...Read Full Story

Former Deputy Attorney General Laid Out Game Plan in Testimony Delivered in March 2009The Republican-led Congressional witch-hunt to pin blame for ATF’s failed Fast and Furious operation on high-level Obama administration officials may well come full circle back to Congress itself.Documents released by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, as part of his probe into Fast and Furious, as well as testimony provided to Congress prior to the launch of the flawed operation, all seem to indicate that the...Read Full Story

AP Sept. 7, 2011: Sen. Charles Grassley speaks on Capitol Hill. Sen. Charles Grassley called Wednesday for one of Attorney General Eric Holder’s top deputies to resign over controversial federal gunrunning probes, becoming the highest-ranking lawmaker to demand a Justice Department resignation over the scandal.  In a fiery speech on the Senate floor, Grassley called for Lanny Breuer, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Criminal Division, to step down.  Grassley, R-Iowa, who as...Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Republican senator said on Wednesday that Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, should step down over a troubled operation that targeted gun smuggling in Mexico.Attorney General Eric Holder "needs to ask for Mr. Breuer's resignation and remove him from office if he refuses," said Senator Charles Grassley, in prepared remarks for delivery on the floor of the Senate.The failures of the "Fast and Furious" program along the U.S.-Mexico...Read Full Story