Posted on 09/27/2014 10:45:01 PM PDT by Nachum
In light of a federal judge denying a request from the Department of Justice to delay the release of a long-sought after Fast and Furious document list, the sister of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Kelly Terry-Willis, doesn't find the timing of Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation to be a coincidence.
"I do not find it a coincidence that Eric Holder chose now to resign after Judge Bates denied the request from the DOJ to delay the release of the Fast and Furious documents. I personally think Eric Holder was really hoping that the documents would never be made public to my family and the American people," Terry-Willis tells Townhall. "Will we ever get the accountability for my brother, Brian, Jaime Zapata and every other person who lost their lives to the guns from this horrific scandal? I don't know, but I have a serious gut feeling when we finally see what is in those documents....the dynamics of this investigation are going to change and hopefully the people involved are brought to justice. Eric Holder can run, but there will be no hiding. The truth always reveals itself."
In a separate statement put out on behalf of the Brian Terry Foundation, family spokesman Ralph Terry says Holder's resignation is welcomed.
"Despite Holder’s aggressive pursuit of the Mexican nationals directly involved in Brian’s murder, the Attorney General has repeatedly failed to accept responsibility for the ill-fated gun trafficking investigation and has most regrettably failed to hold those DOJ and ATF officials responsible for the many mistakes made in the operation. Despite repeated pleas by Brian Terry’s family, Holder has chosen to not discipline those individuals found at fault by DOJ’s own Inspector General. Despite the clear and present danger that exists even today to law enforcement
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With all due respect to Brian Terry’s sister, I wouldn’t be surprised if the requested documents are produced full of black-out “redactions” which require another set of court cases to clean up. I think Holder and Obama are working according to their own agenda and timetable, and the upcoming election and election polling might be influencing them more than this case.
I’d like to be wrong, of course, and have the documents be produced clean, and blow the socks off of Holder and the rest of this corrupt Administration, but that’s the way I see it.
If you are legitimately withholding documents, the Vaughn Index is your friend, if you are obstructing justice or trying to cover up wrong doing by not producing documents, the Vaughn Index is your worst enemy, and one which can help land you in jail for obstruction of justice.
Given how bitterly Eric Holder has fought the release of Fast and Furious documents over the last several years it's pretty easy to guess that the Vaughn Index is going to be no friend to Holder, the DOJ or the Obama Administration in general.
Is there any way to insure that the Vaughn index is accurate, and not an “aggressive” interpretation of the documents that amounts to lies?
That’s what I thought. The judge is forcing them to release the “list” of Fast and Furious documents, not the documents themselves. But I guess that will lead to the documents eventually. Given that Obama wrapped this whole deal up in Executive Privilege, I would suspect where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Obama and Holder are hiding something that will implicate them.
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