Obama's 'Fast and Furious' Scandal Comes Back To Life

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 1/20/2016 | Staff

[IBD editorial writer]

Accountability: The infamous and deadly "gun walking" scandal President Obama stonewalled and then dismissed as "phony" years ago may finally get the attention it deserves, thanks to two recent developments.

[Travis McGee]

[wayoverontheright]

Is El Chapo working for 0bama and the Chicago organized crime syndicate??

Or

Is 0bama and the Chicago organized crime syndicate working for El Chapo??

I have never believed that Fast and Furious was designed as a program to gin up anti-gun sentiment, in any way, shape, or form. Many other ways to do this without the exposure to all the things that could go wrong, and have gone wrong, at least for the administration.

Could it be these guns were meant for El Chapo and others like him? In exchange for......under the radar..... "donations"?

Obama has always been a vindictive sort. In 2009 the elected President of Honduras attempted to go full Hugo Chavez, and demanded an unconstitutional extra term. Zelaya was then ousted by the Honduran legal system. Obama publicly supported Zelaya against the will of the Honduran people. Zelaya was subsequently deposed, which gave the arrogant American President his first big black eye. Vindictive, remember.

I bet those guns were meant for Zelayas supporters in Guatemala.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

January 19, 2016 3:00 pm

A federal judge has rejected President Barack Obama’s assertion of executive privilege to deny Congress access to records pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, a gunrunning probe that allegedly allowed thousands of weapons to flow across the border into Mexico.

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department’s public disclosures about its response to the so-called “gun walking” controversy undercut Obama’s executive privilege claim.

“There is no need to balance the need against the impact that the revelation of any record could have on candor in future executive decision making, since any harm that might flow from the public revelation of the deliberations at issue here has already been self-inflicted,” Jackson wrote. “The Department itself has already publicly revealed the sum and substance of the very material it is now seeking to withhold. Since any harm that would flow from the disclosures sought here would be merely incremental, the records must be produced.”

Jackson said she wasn’t questioning the propriety of Obama’s claim of privilege, but ruling that the claim could not be sustained in view of other information the Justice Department had released on the topic, chiefly an Office of Inspector General report released in September 2012.

“This ruling is not predicated on a finding that the withholding was intended to cloak wrongdoing on the part of government officials or that the withholding itself was improper,” the judge wrote.

The standoff over the records led to a House vote in June 2012 holding then-Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the records. The House later initiated a lawsuit to try to force disclosure of the files. The case was repeatedly delayed in an unsuccessful effort to broker a settlement.

The administration initially asked Jackson to throw out the suit altogether, arguing that the legislative and executive branches should use their own methods to sort out the dispute. However, the judge ruled in 2013 that the fight was an appropriate one for the courts to resolve. She also rejected the administration’s efforts to appeal the case at that time, before she issued a definitive ruling.

Jackson, an Obama appointee, left open the possibility in her ruling Tuesday that some of the disputed records could still be held back from Congress because they contain sensitive information on law enforcement techniques, implicate foreign policy concerns or discuss matters covered by attorney-client privilege.

The administration could appeal the ruling. Spokespeople at the Justice Department and the White House didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

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[spokeshave]

And ICE agent Jamie Zapata

[zzwhale]

the 50 cal is nothing....
obama/holder cut a deal with the sinaloa cartel
they could bring drugs and take the money out at will
and the us would go after the competition....
sweeeeet
all under the guise of “gaining intel on the other cartels”...... YEP..... SURE
F and F was only one of many gun walking programs.... OTHERS WERE RUN OUT OF FLA AND SEVERAL OTHER PLACES....
hey what about BENGHAZI.... where obama/clintoon sent guns to ISIS....

see it’s all part of a pattern of supporting OUR ENEMIES MASKED WITH AN EXCUSE ..... AH..... THAT’S ALSO TREASON....

girtmo releases
iran deal
bergdahl swap
iran prisoner swap

THEY ALL BENEFIT OUR SWORN ENEMIES...... treason