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Fast & Furious fallout: Holder should be next
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | September 2, 2011 | Masthead Editorial

Posted on 09/02/2011 7:47:56 AM PDT by neverdem

Tuesday's replacement of the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who led Operation Fast and Furious, and resignation of the U.S. attorney for Arizona, who oversaw related prosecutions, are fitting consequences for their roles in that fiasco.

But they leave open questions of higher officials' culpability.

Still unclear is who's responsible for allowing illegal U.S. sales of hundreds of guns that agents lost track of while supposedly following their illicit trafficking to Mexican drug cartels. Until definitive answers emerge, denials of responsibility by Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama remain as suspect as the notion that Justice's internal probe will reveal the Fast and Furious truth.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says he wants "to ensure that blame isn't offloaded on just a few individuals for a matter that involved much higher levels of the Justice Department." His independent investigation, which continues, remains the best hope for getting to the bottom of this mess...

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Front Page News; Mexico; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; corruption; democrats; fastandfurious; govtabuse; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; holdertruthfile; obama
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1 posted on 09/02/2011 7:48:03 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
Nixon covered up....no on died. Holder/Obama covered up....border agents died. They both need to go. Now.
2 posted on 09/02/2011 8:04:58 AM PDT by blues-train (blues train)
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To: neverdem
What if Calderon had supplied AK's and 50 cals to the gangs in our major cities?

Wouldn't that be considered and ACT OF WAR?


There are Mexican indictments against most of the major players IIRC.

3 posted on 09/02/2011 8:05:08 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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To: blues-train

The REAL reason for the mess is that Barry wanted to pretend that all that Mehhiccan crime was “caused” by guns sold in America.
This was intended to “justify” more crackdown on gun sales here in the USA.
Dhimmocrats just can’t get enough guncontrol and will do ANYTHING—and I mean ANYTHING—to push it.


4 posted on 09/02/2011 8:12:47 AM PDT by Flintlock (Photo ID for all voters--let our dead rest in peace.)
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To: Flintlock

“The REAL reason for the mess is that Barry wanted to pretend that all that Mehhiccan crime was “caused” by guns sold in America.
This was intended to “justify” more crackdown on gun sales here in the USA.
Dhimmocrats just can’t get enough guncontrol and will do ANYTHING—and I mean ANYTHING—to push it.”

most of us here get it for sure. would be nice if some newsreaders and/or congresscritters started stating this truth, repeatedly


5 posted on 09/02/2011 8:20:00 AM PDT by fnord (Republicans are just the right-wing of the left-wing of American politics)
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To: neverdem

The bad thing for Holder and crew is that the actions they took turning weapons over to criminals is a violation of law.

This prosecution will not end with the election unless Obama wins and he wins both House and Senate.

If Obama loses or the pubs control either the house or senate, this will continue.


6 posted on 09/02/2011 8:22:54 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their VICTORY!)
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To: fnord

Holder is on record having given a speech in Mexico regarding the startup of this “campaign.”
He can’t duck it.


7 posted on 09/02/2011 8:23:13 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (I want a Triple A president for our Triple A country)
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To: neverdem
They hired a special investigator when Valerie Plame was outed, even though they knew it was Richard Armitage.

Where is the call for a SI now.

8 posted on 09/02/2011 8:24:55 AM PDT by DaiHuy (One Big Assed Mistake America)
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To: MestaMachine

Wonder if we will start to hear an editorial drumbeat calling for the resignation of Holder...


9 posted on 09/02/2011 8:29:45 AM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: neverdem
Bttt.

5.56mm

10 posted on 09/02/2011 8:36:25 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: vette6387; MetaThought; 60Gunner; XHogPilot; FreedomPoster; Josephat; Prince of Space; ...

11 posted on 09/02/2011 8:36:51 AM PDT by MestaMachine (Bovina Sancta!)
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To: thouworm

No. obama needs holder in place. And the media needs holder so there is a firewall and they don’t have to do their jobs.


12 posted on 09/02/2011 8:40:31 AM PDT by MestaMachine (Bovina Sancta!)
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To: MestaMachine

Holder can look forward to testifying full time when he leaves office.


13 posted on 09/02/2011 8:44:28 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (I want a Triple A president for our Triple A country)
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To: rawcatslyentist

I would love to see Holder spend the rest of his life in a Mexican prison.


14 posted on 09/02/2011 8:47:29 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: neverdem

yes.


15 posted on 09/02/2011 9:36:53 AM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: rawcatslyentist

You mean, ANOTHER act of war!

His directing Mexicans to invade the U.S., providing them with supplies and maps, then directing how they illegally vote, while establishing outpost, is already a declaration of war.

When was the last time you heard him denounce the “Reconquista” movement?


16 posted on 09/02/2011 10:27:27 AM PDT by Loyal Sedition (Loyal Sedition, often described as "To the right of Attila The Hun"!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

A very good reason to vote for anyone but Obama is so that Holder can be indicted, tried, convicted, and spend the rest of his life in a federal prison.


17 posted on 09/02/2011 10:52:17 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Flintlock
Dhimmocrats just can’t get enough guncontrol and will do ANYTHING—and I mean ANYTHING—to push it.

Being a Marxist-Leninist power junkey means ALWAYS having to get ALL the guns.

They're screwed. They won't disarm America in a million years ..... and like Yamamoto said, that means that wherever they go, there'll be a rifle behind every blade of grass. Communist nightmare.

18 posted on 09/02/2011 12:29:42 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: neverdem

During Bubba’s reign the PRC *did* try to supply machine guns and even MANPADS to California street gangs; the shipment was HUGE and was on an ocean-liner called the Dragon Lady or something —when our intel indicated the shipment had arrived ALLLLL the King’s horses and men came charging out and intercepted the stuff, just UnStealthy enough to avoid political embarrassment by permitting the really top Chinese Generals in charge slip away:

But the point is that it was investigated thoroughly and it was stopped, the instigators identified.

What happens now that it’s a SITTING US PRESIDENT...? Hmmm...?

Cut a shotgun 1/2 inch too short, and the Average Joe’s house is burned and his family is sentenced to DEATH, but if you’re a diverse power-holder then does NOTHING happen?

Because we’re about to find out.


19 posted on 09/02/2011 12:36:32 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Randy Weaver found out !!


20 posted on 09/02/2011 12:45:41 PM PDT by MountainYankee
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