Posted on 02/10/2011 4:00:56 AM PST by marktwain
"The U.S. Justice Department denied a claim made to lawmakers that two guns sold in purchases sanctioned by federal firearms agents were later used in a shootout that left a Border Patrol agent dead near the Arizona-Mexico border,” the Associated Press reports.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Ronald Weich said in a letter obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press that the claim that firearms agents sanctioned or knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to straw buyers who then brought them to Mexico is false.
Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars obtained the pdf file of Weich’s letter to Sen. Charles Grassley, which I’ve posted on Scribd, and also included as jpgs in the sidebar slide show.
In essence:
ATF has lawyered up.
They deny wrongdoing.
They will share general Project Gunwalker information available to anyone with the Senate investigators, but are invoking separation of powers to refuse to answer any specific questions, including those specifically dealing with guns recovered at the murder scene of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
This is not unexpected. Vanderboegh and I have reached out to our contacts and will post clarifying information as we receive it.
ATF is an unconstitutional abrogation of local law enforcement powers by a federal agency gone mad.
Its dissolution should be a key goal of the NRA and all our friends in Washington.
The BATFE with egg on its collective face. Again.
“Laws? We don’t need no steenking laws!”
Gee. They deny it. Big surprise there.
Codrea and Vanderboegh deserve the Pulitzer.
Of course, since it only goes to statist Lefties, that’s a pipe dream.
I would love to be proven wrong.
We're way past voting our way out of this my friend. It brings me no joy to say it, but nevertheless it is true. All we can do is get ready, hunker down, and try to ride out the coming storm.
There's a character trait that's decided by fate
Comes (sadly) to many, far too faint, far too late.
They won't face the aggressor, stand up to his ire
They have not the will to fight his fire with fire.
So they bend over backwards to see all sides as fair,
Till they're faced with dragon breath fire in their hair.
Like our brethren in France, who'd know better than we,
Yet seem never to learn, seem doomed never to see.
Yes, it seems there are some who're determined by fate,
To possess not the courage to step up to the plate,
Who shrink from all threat because nothing's worth war.
But how can they know lest they've been there before?
Thank God some have courage, the will, yes, the grace,
To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place.
Thank God we have stalwarts who'll stand for us all,
Who will rise to the challenge at their nation's call.
The faint-hearted, who fear, whose reaction is flight,
Have no comprehension of those who will fight.
To hide their own trepidation they attempt to demean
The rough men, who defend them, as barbaric, obscene.
Yet these rough men stand ready, hard weapons to hand,
To put placaters behind them, draw a line in the sand,
To preserve for the peaceniks what they won't defend,
So their own unearned freedom won't perish, won't end.
To appeasers, rough men are coarse government tools.
To rough men, appeasers are dumb delusional fools.
Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66
Past time to defund and shut down the ATF. An anti-american enterprise.
Take the F off of ATF and let them go back to collecting cigarette and liquor taxes.
It is the coverup that always gets them. Too bad that the taxpayers have to pay for THEIR lawlessness and then for their lawyers.
But anyone can be nominated. And I expect that my old paper will be just one making just such a nomination.
Sounds like perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice to me!
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