Fast and Furious Tapes: Sit Your Ass Down, Charles Grassley

Human Events ^ | 09/21/2011 | John Hayward

[Ken H]

Makes sense.

Any Hawkeyes out there want to call Sen. Grassley's office for a comment?

[cornfedcowboy]

The agent could have been playing along. Nothing monumental came from these tapes. Also, I have heard that the agent in the recordings is top notch. The gun dealer got a raw deal as well.

[cornfedcowboy]

Any Hawkeyes out there want to call Sen. Grassley’s office for a comment?

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I talked to him personally about 4 weeks ago. He didn’t make many comments, just listened.

[Enterprise]

I hope there's a whole STATE full of people calling him tomorrow.

Senator Grassley, is it common for low level Federal employees to have Private Investigators hired to dig up dirt on Senators?

Senator Grassley, it has been said that the Senate is basically 100 of the most power people in the world. Is this no longer true, and has the Senate delegated its power and prestige to low level Federal employees?

Senator Grassley, why do Senators work so hard to get re-elected to office when the true power belongs to low level Federal employees?

[basil]

ping!

[ozzymandus]

My experience with the BATF has shown the female agents to be the worst. They always have a chip on their shoulder.

[cornfedcowboy]

Lighten up on the agents. They are not the problem. The bureaucracy?.... now there is your problem.

[ozzymandus]

Maybe you’ve met different agents than I have. I stand by my comment.

[Ken H]

Lighten up on the agents. They are not the problem. The bureaucracy?.... now there is your problem.

Isn't that like saying UAW workers are not the problem, GM management is.

[Baynative]

Are we talking about the same Charles Grassley who swore he would not let the Able Danger Team down ... THAT C. Grassley?

Oh me of little faith.

[cornfedcowboy]

Isn’t that like saying UAW workers are not the problem, GM management is.

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No, in that analogy it would be more like GM management directed the UAW workers to put together craps cars. Don’t blame the workers, blame the management.
This is exactly the problem. The Justice Dept. designed a scheme to further a failed and deadly political agenda. The agents weren’t trying to have the guns walked, their supervisors did. Heck, the FBI was actually giving $$$ to informants to buy guns and run them across the border without the ATF’s knowledge. This was directed from levels higher than field agents.

[Smokin' Joe]

Get the loser out, and usher in Hillary

That might not work if 'Operation Castaway' gets out (run out of Miami, running guns to Honduras). There was a little on it as this story started coming out, but danged little since. The State Dept. had to be in on that one, and possibly the shuffling of military grade (not gun show stuff) weapons to the Cartels through a warehouse in New Mexico. Both operations were mentioned early on, but this has pushed them aside.

[Joe Brower]

[Lurker]

Lighten up on the agents. They are not the problem.

Bullcrap. They're no better than the guards at Auschwitz were.

[KansasGirl]

[It’s unclear why the Inspector General, who is supposed to investigate independently, would turn over evidence to an entity that is itself under investigation.]

I heard Issa talk about this last night on Greta. This prevented them from getting to interview agent McCallister without her knowing what they already knew.

[pabianice]

Look forward to Obama pardoning scores or hundreds of people before his last day in office, 20 Jan 2013.

[pabianice]

Please don’t cheapen the Holocaust with comments like this. Until federal agents secretly arrest and murder people, there is no comparison.