Posted on 02/25/2011 4:55:36 AM PST by marktwain
BELLEVUE, WA — Following new revelations regarding the growing scandal over the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ “Project Gunrunner” — the most recent on Wednesday’s CBS Evening News — the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today is calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the allegations and remove ATF officials responsible, or hand in his resignation.
“Instead of cracking down on American gun owners, it is time to crack down on the ATF,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, who earlier this week urged gun owners to pressure Congress to cut ATF’s budget.
The Gunrunner scandal was originally uncovered by National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea and independent blogger Mike Vanderboegh. The case now has the attention of U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. CCRKBA believes the committee should launch a full-scale investigation of ATF and that Grassley should not stand alone in his pursuit of the truth.
“Two weeks ago,” Gottlieb noted, “Sen. Grassley called on Holder to ‘come clean’ about this scandal, and the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. He was greeted with silence. Agent Terry was likely killed with a gun that ATF allowed one of the Gunrunner suspects to purchase more than a year ago. We have seen documents that show the gun was recovered at the Terry crime scene.
“Almost immediately after he took office,” he continued, “Holder joined other members of the Obama administration in calls for new gun laws to crack down on American gun dealers and gun owners. He wanted to renew the ban on so-called ‘assault weapons.’ Now, thanks to independent Internet reporters and CBS News, it appears hundreds, if not thousands of U.S.-origin guns that made their way to Mexican criminals were allowed to cross the border by an inept ATF operation that was even criticized by ATF agents.
“Senator Grassley’s inquiry has been met with stonewalling,” he said, “but with these new revelations, the time for silence has passed. ATF officials in Phoenix who allowed this travesty to continue, over objections from field agents who knew better, should be fired. Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson should go immediately, and a new director, from outside of the agency, should be appointed to clean up this mess. If Eric Holder is not willing to hold ATF officials accountable, he should resign.”
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States. The Citizens Committee can be reached by phone at (425) 454-4911, on the Internet at www.ccrkba.org or by email to InformationRequest@ccrkba.org.
I think our tea party reps are confused. They seem to think we voted them in to give tax cuts to millionaires and austerity measures to working folks when all we really wanted them to do was cut the budgets of agencies like the BATFE. I’m becoming disapointed.
Mike
The ATF Administrator, like all heads of executive branch agencies, serves at the pleasure of the President. I don’t expect to see Obama request a resignation - and that is tacit approval of what has transpired. There will be no DOJ investigation.
How about leading Holder away in handcuffs for not prosecuting the New Black Panthers in the voter intimidation case.... THAT is something I’d pay to see.
You guys are missing the big picture here....janet nap went to arizons the monday following the agents murder...holder has been briefed on the situation of operation gunrunner, and knows what project gunwalker people know...this puts the murder of a federal agent with weapons supplied by the atf firmly into the white house. How far up the chain does this go, who knew what, and when did they know it...this will make watergate look like the warm up band
Fire Holder also means the idiot Senators whom confirmed him. They knew he was not up to the task as AG, he was with Clinton and he was represntative of the World Trade Centers 1993 Bombers - How did that work out for the US. Holder was probably encouraged by Odumbo to have Qaddaffi’s friend and co conspirtiator the Lockerbie Bomber be released from Scotland. Here is the conversation
qaddaffi - Allah Akbar my son Obama
Obama - Allah Akbar my God father, opps I mean Allah father
qaddaffi - my precious son can you have our good friend the Lockerbie bomber come back to Libya so he can die in the bosom of Shia bliss.
Obama - I cannot do that without something in return.
Qaddaffi - My son I know where you were truly born and I will expose you for what you really are the 12th Imam, the Mahidi the Shia’s have been waiting for.
obama- what do you want?
qaddaffi - $400,000 for my son and daughter to use to aid lebanonese to get the necesary food and medicine.
obama - done,i have 787 billion dollars to spend like I want. but I want william ayers, bernadine dorn and jodie meyers code pink to accompany your children on the flotilla. this way if the flotilla is sunk, it will look like ayers and dorn never gave up their terrorist ways. Ayers has left me his estate - I really need the cash for my re-election campaign. Jodie myers and code pink need to go to, that bundler caused me lots of problems since I got elected. remember those two husband and wife whom crashed my first dinner, they were there on jodie myers invitation. she was testing the response of the secret service and white house staff, she failed miserably and now the Sunni muslims could come in easily kidnap me and shove me back down that well in Iraq. by the way, you will have to go through eric holder from no on, my allahfather I can have nothing to connect me to you.
qaddaffi - my son Allah Akbar and may Allah watch over and bless you richly as you pillage the American people and treasury. I will now go through your half brother Eric Holder. Death to those American Dogs
obama - allah akbar my allahfather
months later obama talks to qaddaffi again
obama - allah akbar, what happened to the flotilla my godfather
qaddaffi - allah akbar, how many times do I have to tell you allah father not G. those american dogs tipped off the Israeli’s and Ayers and Dorn went in hiding on the secret compartment and several people were murdered by Israeli commandos.
obama - i have been found out by Wikileaks, and everything will come to light soon. good bye my allahfather, I will see you in paradise.
qaddaffi - I will see you in hell.
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