Posted on 07/06/2011 1:45:00 PM PDT by Hojczyk
This morning, Issa and Senator Charles Grassley released a letter that they sent yesterday to Attorney General Eric Holder. It is explosive, to say the least. You should read it in its entirety; here are some excerpts:
Yesterday, Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson participated in a transcribed interview regarding Operation Fast and Furious and related matters with both Republican and Democratic staff. He appeared with his personal counsel, Richard Cullen of McGuire Woods LLP. His interview had originally been scheduled through the Justice Department to occur on July 13 in the presence of DOJ and ATF counsel. As you know, however, under our agreement Department witnesses who choose to attend a voluntary interview with their own lawyer are free to exercise that right rather than participate with counsel representing the Department’s interests.
After being made aware of that provision of our agreement, Acting Director Melson chose to exercise that right and appeared with his own lawyer. We are disappointed that no one had previously informed him of that provision of the agreement. Instead, Justice Department officials sought to limit and control his communications with Congress.
Issa and Grassley link the Obama administration’s effort to slide Melson out of his position, making him the fall guy for the Fast and Furious operation, with Melson’s complaints to Deputy Attorney General James Cole, the number two official in the Department of Justice, about DOJ’s failure to respond adequately to Congress’s requests for information about Fast and Furious:
However, two days after he told Acting Deputy Attorney General Cole about serious issues involving lack of information sharing, The full transcript of Melson’s testimony, when released, will be a fascinating document. In the meantime, it appears clear that the Fast and Furious scandal reaches to the very top of Barack Obama’s Department of Justice.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Yep! Keep digging Issa I seriously doubt that Holder was trying to bury this for his own benefit, this goes all the way to the Whitehouse.Worse than Watergate it did not kill anyone!
Ummmm...tasty....just what the national appetite ordered...
No, it was a deliberate effort to subvert the right of Americans to own arms.
Believe it or not The Atlantic is doubling down on the original media operation today. Anything is OK in aid of the enemy's plans to kill The Republic.
Expect more as the story blows up.
I say we just dress them up as tourists, Take away their ID, and send them across the border in a used SUV.
“Until it lands on the front page of the New York Times, The Washington Post and the L.A. Times...it hasn’t “blown” anywhere.”
Exactly.
And if any of this stuff does show up at those sites, it will mainly be the MSM providing cover and diversions for the regime.
It’ll take a jail sentence for this stuff to break - and I’m pretty sure prosecution has to go through Holder. Good luck with that.
I prefer “Waterloo”
If I had been in Melson’s shoes, I would have started doing CYA record keeping from the beginning. Whether I agreed with the policy or not, (which I don’t), but just for CYA. Hopefully he has done this.
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