Posted on 07/02/2012 8:44:29 AM PDT by marktwain
President Obama's Chief of State Jack Lew appeared on CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley yesterday. After listening to his comments of Operation Fast and Furious you are left with the impression that he is grasping. Frankly, he is not a good liar. A good liar would convince you of his facts even when he knew they were false. About the only thing good about this interview for the Obama Administration is that it appeared on CNN which it seems no one watches anymore.
Lew starts out by saying that Operation Fast and Furious was a bad plan that started under the Bush Administration, that they didn't know anything about it, and that the regional office were the ones who really were at fault. He then evades Candy Crowley's question asking whether there was something that was so important in the withheld documents that the White House had to invoke executive privilege by saying the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was on a witch hunt.
Sorry, Jack, but the operation started in April 2009 and the wiretap applications indicate that high level DOJ officials were very much aware of what was going on.
Video at the site.
Lew is from the Clinton administration. He started his lying then.
The zero would never hire anyone who could lie better than he can.
Just like the female office manager who will hire no woman prettier than she is.
I watched that show yesterday, and I was pleasantly surprised at how tough Candy Crowley was on him.
The Administration is not lacking in liars, but they are lacking in good liars. That’s why they keep trying to drag in Bill Clinton.
The first sentence out of his mouth was a lie and he knows it. Operation Wide Receiver under the Bush Administration was shut down in 2007. Fast and Furious was started in 2009. Neither had anything to do with the other.
Wide Receiver had GPS sensors attached to the weapons so that they could be traced. F&F weapons had none and were never intended to be traced. WR included the Mexican government as a equal partner. F&F was done without any knowledge of the Mexican government. WR was done to attempt to trace the weapons to the drug cartels physical locations so that they could be dealt with by the Mexican authorities. F&F was an attempt to make it look as if legitimate U. S. gun dealers were involved in gun running activities so as to bring about more stringent anti-gun laws in the U. S. F&F was never meant to benefit the Mexican government’s fight against the drug cartels.
Jack Lew, it is not important that you lied to me. The important thing is that I can never believe anything that you say again.
God damn it.
Gunwalker was under Bush. Buyers were arrested, no guns went to Mexico. Mexican authorities knew. Fast and Furious was under Obama. No buyers arrested, guns went to Mexico, Mexican authorities didn’t know.
Democrats want the confusion.
What is “Chief of State”? Is this a new czar position? Or a cabinet position 0bama arbitrarily added on his own? Have not heard of this before.
Obama and Withholder are busted. Blaming Bush and playing the race card has no credibility left with the american people. If the foreigner is able to stall the investigation until after he loses in November, I hope Issa and Grassly keep moving forward.
You know that. Jack knows that. But does the average voter know that? All they're hearing is that it's Bush's fault again. Tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.
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