Posted on 07/08/2011 2:20:15 PM PDT by RummyChick
Grassley would be supportive of a special prosecutor in ‘Gunwalker’
Sen. Charles Grassley, (R-Iowa) ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on a radio interview today, while he’s not calling for a special prosecutor to investigate Operation Fast and Furious, the failed operation to track guns across the Mexican border, he would be supportive if Chairman Darrell Issa, (R-Calif.) of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform called for one.
In the interview on the Steve Gill Show, he had a couple of other interesting things to say.
He said three things came out of the interviews with Ken Melson, the Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
1. It wasn’t just an ATF operation. FBI and DEA were involved and knew about the operation.
2. This wasn’t controlled by ATF, the U.S. Attorney in Phoenix was in charge.
3. Contrary to the information the investigators had been given by letter, everyone inolved knew guns were going across the border.
Listen to the interview here.
That’s good though because no one can say they didn’t know about the operation. Now the question becomes, who gave the order to change the operation into the mutant it became?
OMG, that is so funny.
Special prosecutors are appointed by the Attorney General.
I can't imagine that anybody is anxious to have Eric Holder make that appointment. Or, if he recused himself (as John Ashcroft did when Fitzgerald was named to investigate the Plame Affair), trusts him enough to designate an AAG to make the appointment.
Toomey, Demint, Rubio, Barraso, Paul. You are saying that Grassley is next in line as the stalwart of Conservatism? By my count he is at least 95 off the top of my head. I am sure he is much lower and not the fighter he used to be 20 years ago.
Plus posted by Domandred if you haven’t seen it
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2745149/posts
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Operation Gunrunner was funded by the 2009 Stimulus Package
7/7/2011 | Domandred
Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2011 12:06:47 PM by Domandred
Something about Project Gunrunner (gunwalker, fast and furious) has been bugging me but I just couldn’t put my finger on it.
This morning when I woke up I remember seeing Project Gunrunner in a bill that was discussed here. The original thread about it was a rumor thread that HR45 had been rolled into the stimulus package.
In that thread I scanned the text of H.R.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for gun, firearm, etc and came up with a hit.
I posted in the thread: “Only time “gun” or “firearm” appears is in the part that give $10,000,000 to the ATF for Project Gunrunner. That was H.R. 495, asking for 15,000,000 for Gunrunner”.
H.R. 495 that I mentioned never made it out of committee, but it looks as it was to specifically fund Gunrunner.
Instead portions of it were rolled into the stimulus package a month later. That text found in H.R.1 is:
For an additional amount for ‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’, $40,000,000, for competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the Southern border, of which $10,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses’ for the ATF Project Gunrunner.
Notice that’s $40,000,000 for Southern border enforcement, $10,000,000 of which specifically for Project Gunrunner. What does $10 million pay for here? It didn’t hire any new agents that I am aware of.
What this tells me is that several congressmen also had knowledge of what Gunrunner was going to entail. This isn’t just the ATF and DOJ. This is all levels and areas of government. Even members of the House and Senate knew what Project Gunrunner was.
Go to that link, wait for it to load (it’s long). Then CTRL-F (find) “gunrunner”. Should bring you right to it, highlighted.
I would think Issa calls for a committee vote? I can’t imagine Cummings doing anything but cover for Obama and report to him. I saw Cummings speaking with the asst AG like they were BUDS before the last hearing.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2751267/posts?page=6
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Thanks for the link. I am glad Issa is holding on to this like a pit bull. As a committee head, he has every right to call for a special prosecutor at any time. I don’t think he even has to put it to a vote, but he probably will when the time is right. First he has to do everything he can to get to the bottom of it in committee and then if crimes have been committed(which we know already have)... then it goes to a special prosecutor.
I just hope the pubs are serious about following this to the end and not just using it as a policy bargaining chip with Obama and the democrats.
You can say that again. ditto.
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