What Do You Know About Obama/Holder’s ‘Operation Chokepoint’?

From Wikipedia: Operation Choke Point is an 2013[1] initiative of the United States Department of Justice which is investigating banks in the United States and the business they do with payment processors, payday lenders, and other businesses believed to be at higher risk for fraud. This operation is controversial in that it may be a method used by the United States Government to financially cripple politically unfavorable industries.” Included in the list of businesses that are believed to be at higher risk are pornographers, Firearms sales, ammunition sales, coin dealers, and many others. It seems that they DOJ is not limiting its efforts to cripple businesses to just those that are at a higher risk of fraud. Also targeted are what the Obama administration considers to be ‘…politically unfavorable industries.” Breitbart has been investigating and has these interesting details: On August 22, thirty-one members of Congress sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg , requesting a briefing of Congressional staff members on the project, the details of which were so obscure they did not yet know it had obtained the status of a federal initiative and was called ‘Operation Choke Point.’ … In response to that letter, a Department of Justice official met with Congressional staff members at the Capitol in late September, but refused to answer any questions about the project.



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