Posted on 07/13/2011 9:05:18 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
I know I’ve been doing a lot of posting on the Fast and Furious scandal and some of you might not be as enthralled as I am with it but I think this is heading downhill quickly for the DOJ (and thus Eric Holder) and I can’t wait to see where this will all end up. It’s like a great mystery movie where you watch and watch and wait to see “who done it”. We all know “who done it” here but will they get away with it and will it eventually end up in Obama’s lap?
Breaking news out late yesterday afternoon is that Kenneth Melson, Director of the ATF, is singing like a little bird and his song isn’t exactly music to the DOJ, ATF or the FBI’s ears. Melson was scheduled to meet next week with Rep. Issa and Grassley, who are heading up the investigation by the House Oversight Committee. Next week’s meeting would also have included lawyers from the DOJ (so they could keep an eye on him and do some damage control). Instead, Melson opted to have a secret meeting with Issa and Grassley so he could say what was really on his mind….and there was a lot on his mind.
Here’s a brief little summary of things discussed in the July 4th meeting…
Melson was shocked and nauseated to discover – after the fact – that the perfectly straightforward sting operation that he was overseeing had been perverted into a policy where guns were allowed to be handed off to Mexican narco-terrorists. As soon as he discovered this, he and the rest of BATFE’s leadership of course had everyone managing F&F operations reassigned.
Melson and the rest of BATFE’s leadership of course wanted to give full disclosure to Congress over this entire sorry affair. Alas, “he said Justice Department officials directed them not to respond and took full control of replying to briefing and document requests from Congress.”
Issa & Grassley are talking to other sources who are backing up Melson’s testimony. That includes intimations that BATFE was not informed of certain operations being done by the DEA & the FBI concurrently. Operations where “some of the gun trafficking “higher-ups” that the ATF sought to identify were already known to other agencies and may even have been paid as informants”.
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So several other government agencies were also doing concurrent operations involving gun sales to Mexican thugs? Doesn’t the DOJ oversee the ATF and the DEA? Apparently the Arizona US Attorney Dennis Burke (an Obama appointee) is up to his eyeballs in the scandal because his office provided legal advice to the ATF during Fast and Furious. No matter which way you go with this fiasco….all roads lead back to the DOJ and Eric Holder.
I would love to be a fly on the wall in Holder’s office when he is discussing what the DOJ will do next.
Wouldn’t Project Gunrunner make a great movie? Starring Denzel Washington, Harrison Ford and….who else?
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This article is a week old, but this meeting with Issa and others is under reported and I think the summary of the meeting is important.
How long will it be before Mr. Melson finds his own Fort Marcy Park?
I would be absolutely shocked if any of this stuck to Obama. Even if the program was personally authorized by him - no-one has the guts to go after him.
“How long will it be before Mr. Melson finds his own Fort Marcy Park?”
Should we get up a pool?
CIA, right...? So...FF/Castaway also had FOREIGN policy objectives, huh...? And what WERE those objectives?
“no-one has the guts to go after him.”
Do you really think everyone is afraid of being Vince Fostered?
NO, although I suppose it is possible Panetta was briefed. FBI and DEA are the ones that were definitely involved.
Thank you for posting!
I don’t know about that Issa has been a pit bull on this one.
This has high visibility. Melson seems willing to talk candidly to Issa. Others who talked to Issa were fired, but I doubt they will fire the head of BATF.
As far as the Vince Foster aspect, who knows what is possible with Obozo.
It obviously was. We shall see.
I think the events of Operation Castaway are more revealing of his signature.
I hope this *itch is involved...
Michele Leonhart for the position of director of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Several organizations that lobby on drug policy issues have voiced serious concerns regarding Ms. Leonhart’s nomination.
Ms. Leonhart has exhibited questionable judgment when speaking to the subject of escalating drug war violence in Mexico. In 2009, she described this border violence — which is responsible for over 31,000 deaths since December 2006 — as a sign of the “success” of her agency’s anti-drug strategies.
Vince Fostered? not so much - more like no-one wants the race riots that would erupt if anything forced Obama out of office/up on charges. I firmly believe this is why the SCOTUS has basically railroaded every case regarding eligibility instead of giving a fair hearing.
But that’s just my opinion...
Oh, if only Don Knotts were alive. We could give him a spray tan and have him play Holder in Barney Fife character.
“But that’s just my opinion...”
Makes sense, if we assume nearly universal cowardice.
“no-one wants the race riots that would erupt if anything forced Obama out of office/up on charges.”
Remember how Korean shop-owners protected their property with firearms during the Rodney King riot?
If that got going on a much larger scale, tens of thousands of the country’s worst human liabilities might be depreciated.
Starring Denzel Washington, Harrison Ford and….who else?
Gotta have Tommy Lee Jones, maybe that chick from
the Closer...
bfl
There are a lot of those with this “administration” but please explain.
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