Posted on 10/02/2011 8:37:52 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
When you’ve got bad news, release it on Friday. The White House followed that dictum yesterday by surrendering carefully selected documents to Congressional investigators exploring the link between Operation Fast and Furious and the Obama Administration. CBS has obtained records that prove that then-ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office (and Fast and Furious coordinator) Bill Newell and then-White House National Security Staffer Kevin O’Reilly were schmoozing about F&F by phone and email. [Click here for the pdf.] The White House said the two men never discussed the fact that ATF guns were walking. Riiiiight. That’s why O’Reilly’s now in Iraq, “on assignment,” where he can’t be contacted . . .
The White House continues to withhold other documents requested by Senator Grassley and Representative Issa’s investigation into the ATF’s Fast and Furious op. Specifically, the investigators want the Newell emails that O’Reilly forwarded to Dan Restrepo (Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs) and Greg Gatjkanis (Director for Terrorist Finance and Counternarcotics, Counterterrorism Policy, National Security Staff, Executive Office of the President).
The White House claims they can’t release the forwarded emails—and a different document related to the case against the drug thug who murdered U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry—because the EOP (Executive Office of the President) has “significant confidentiality interests in its internal communications.”
We’ve reached another milestone in this scandal: the White House is claiming executive privilege; although they’re not actually using the term. Yet. [Click here for the letter to Congress from Kathryn Ruemmler, Counsel to the President.]
(Excerpt) Read more at thetruthaboutguns.com ...
"There is, however, a genuine possibility that the Obama administration will shutter the ATF proactively, to dodge the Fast and Furious bullet."
"Last week, ATF offered 400 agents buy outs to avoid budget cuts and is expecting 250-275 agents to take the offer through Voluntary Early Retirement. These buyouts come at a convenient time for the Justice Department, which can eliminate ATF, then say it’s because of budget cuts, when really, it’s to cover their tracks."
"If Obama Boyz pull the plug on the ATF (from my keyboard to God’s ears), the administration will arrange generous severance payments for existing ATF agents—with iron-clad non-disclosure agreements."
Unfortunately the HI Dept. of Health would ignore the Subpoena.
There’s no hope of them dodging this bullet. The Warren Commission will see to that.
Eliminating the BATFE isn’t enough at this point. At least a good portion of the laws on the books that enabled this fiasco to ensue must be removed. All the little technical BS laws regarding guns must go. No more NFA, no more bans, no more questionable BS from an agency that has now proven itself to be far more criminal than ANY citizen it has gone after since it’s inception.
Nothing less is acceptable.
“Warren Commission”
hee hee hee
Read the article and it states exactly what you said:
“In the face of all this Mexican misegos, all the president’s men would gladly cut a deal to sacrifice the ATF to preserve the Commander-in-Chief. That said, it takes two sides to make a deal. If Republicans smell, see and taste White House blood, they are not going to trade the elimination of a piddling little completely redundant anti-Second Amendment federal agency for the President’s proverbial scalp.”
“If it comes down to it, it’ll be Watergate all over again.”
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Watergate on steroids.....
Watergate on steroids...
Not without the media it won’t. That’s why the Communists took it over from the get-go.
Correct. But that is our job, to shame and hammer the MSM into covering it. It took 2 months with Rathergate. But they were eventually forced to carry it. Let Issa televise the hearings. Communist vermin must be exposed.
Input needed. Have now started a new ping list called BORDER WARS since so many of these stories are starting to intersect and overlap. I would like to keep the Gunwalker threads separate. Let me know if you want on the Border Wars list. It will NOT be the same as Gunwalker, though they might overlap occasionally. Please ping me to any articles you think fit in this catagory. Thank you.
FYI
They'll move it to another agency, like Homeland Security. Janet would love that.
no way?
you’re correct they will not voluntarily do that.
But the only solution to the mess we have in Washington is to DownSize DC! Eliminate entire departments and move the pieces that have value back to the States.
There is no other solution. And it would be the only path to dislodge the Left’s hold on bureaucratic power. Eliminate their jobs totally.
An easy place to start would be to eliminate the entire U.S. Department of Education including their SWAT teams.
Time somebody in the Country realize that the Office of the
President has been whole loaf corrupted by this evil man.Anybody who would protect the President (this fraudulent President) is not worthy of the name American. And certainly NO Patriot.
Yes, it is TIME!
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