....just some chickens coming home to roost...
Posted on 10/24/2014 10:12:50 AM PDT by wrhssaxensemble
President Obama’s trusted senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, was a key player in the effort to cover-up that Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about the Fast and Furious scandal, according to public records obtained by Judicial Watch.
The information is part of a Department of Justice (DOJ) “Vaughn index” detailing records about the gun-running operation known as Fast and Furious. JW had to sue the agency for the records after the Obama administration failed to provide them under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A federal court ordered the DOJ to provide the records over the agency’s objections. Yesterday JW reported on the broad information in the records, including that Obama asserted executive privilege for Holder’s wife as part of the administration’s efforts to cover up the scandal.
Practically lost in the 1,000-plus pages of records is an index that shows Jarrett was brought in to manage the fact that Holder lied to Congress after the story about the disastrous gun-running operation broke in the media. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) ran the once-secret program that allowed guns from the U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels. Instead, federal law enforcement officers lost track of hundreds of weapons which have been used in an unknown number of crimes, including the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.
The files received by JW include three electronic mails between Holder and Jarrett and one from former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke to Jarrett. The e-mails with Holder are all from October 4, 2011, a significant date because, on the evening of October 3rd, Sheryl Attkisson (then at CBS news) released documents showing that Holder had been sent a briefing paper on Operation Fast and Furious on June 5, 2010. The paper was from the director of the National Drug Intelligence Center, Michael Walther.
This directly contradicted Holder’s May 3, 2011 testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, during which he stated that he, “probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.” The October 4, 2011 date may also be significant because it came shortly after the August 30, 2011 resignation of U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke and reassignment of acting ATF director Kenneth Melson to the position of “senior forensics advisor” at DOJ.
The description of one of the e-mails, written from Jarrett to Holder, reads, “re: personnel issues.” Another, also from Jarrett, reads, “outlining and discussing preferred course of action for future responses in light of recent development in congressional investigation.” Unfortunately, the index is vague and that’s all the information we have about them. Nevertheless, given the timing and subject of these e-mails, it seems clear that Jarrett quickly became a key player in the Fast and Furious cover-up in the immediate aftermath of the revelation that Holder had lied to Congress.
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I was about to, if that counts.
Does this mean the wheels are about to come off?
The “Puppet Master” machinating behind the scenes .... no surprise.
Jail them all! Seriously. I hope that whoever is elected in 2016 doesn’t take the soft approach that W did and let them go with a “Tut, tut!”
“Puppet Master” is exactly what I was going to post.
The woman is probably the contemporary “anti-christ on deck”.
No need to break out the lug nut wrench yet.
5.56mm
jarrett and holder should be stood up against a wall...... what a bitch, and jarrett too.
While nobody’s doing time for it yet, it’s heartening to see that at least F&F is being kept on the front burner.
Too bad, but there is no way anything will come of this latest revelation. If the folks aren’t wake by now, they never will be. Not feeling real optimistic today. We just moved to Madison, WI. Will be here for two months. I am surrounded by total idiots, robots, commurats and tree huggers. Can’t go to the mailbox without finding a flyer from Planned Parenthood telling me how Scott Walker wants to kill all women.
The woman is probably the contemporary “anti-christ on deck”.
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For me, she emanates evil .... sort of like those rippling, shimmering heat waves over a desert.
Yep, and that’s only in the pictures - imagine what she’s like in person!
No. The GOP led House and Senate has demonstrated to the defacto-Dictator-In-Chief that enforcing the law and the Constitution is not their job. His Heinous therefore understands he can do as he likes with impunity.
Without the will and effort to enforce the law, we have no law at all except that which is decreed by those in power who will muster enforcement via intimidation, threat and punishment.
Obama could rape a 9 year old white boy on camera, and not a thing will happen to him, because there is no one in government willing to hold him to account.
Sad to say I doubt it means the wheels are about to come off. Not enough people care about it, or even know about it.
....just some chickens coming home to roost...
LOL!
Madisn, W
If you want to find a left wing city, find a city with a LARGE left wing university. Works every time
Jarrett surely isn’t worried - the media and the bought and paid for judges will protect the rats.
Seems to me only a massive public outrage resulting from a suddenly decent MSM could lead to righting these wrongs. Even “fair and balanced” doesn’t work. What side can possibly be FAIR when crimes are committed?
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