Republican Congressman Darrell Issa (CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, penned a column for tech news blog TechCrunch on Wednesday, in which he alternatively extols the virtues of open government, praises himself for leading the charge against the sunken Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) late last year and early 2012, and slams Attorney General Eric Holder for “stonewalling” Issa’s investigation in the “Fast and Furious” gun tracking operation that went awry and resulted in the death of border patrol agent Brian Terry in 2010. Here are a few select passages:
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