Posted on 10/07/2011 9:07:16 AM PDT by Interesting Times
...after calls from Congress for a special counsel, a Justice spokesman attempted to fend off that plan by saying that once Holder had learned of the operation's "questionable tactics" earlier this year, he then "promptly asked the inspector general to investigate the matter."
Cynthia A. Schnedar is the acting inspector general, and just this past month, in yet another stunning revelation, it was discovered that she had released secret audio tapes of candid conversations from last March between Hope McAllister, an ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) agent in the Phoenix office, and Andre Howard, owner of a Phoenix-area gun shop, who had been authorized by the ATF to sell weapons to known Mexican cartel members in the botched sting operation.
On one of the tapes, they discuss a third Fast and Furious rifle that was found at the scene of the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in a remote area of southern Arizona last December. It had been widely reported that only two rifles were found at the scene, but recent reports tell of a cover-up. The third rifle would have led to an FBI informant.
As for the tapes, it was discovered by congressional investigators that Schnedar had inexplicably given a copy to the U.S. attorney's office in Phoenix before she had even reviewed them. The tapes then ended up being shared with the ATF office there. Both those agencies are among the many entities under investigation in the ever-expanding scandal.
So just who, one may wonder, is Acting Inspector General Cynthia Schnedar?
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Some seriously stupid planners on their team.
Maybe. If not for the 2010 GOP takeover of the House, it’s unlikely anything would have been done at all. F&F shows a deeply unsettling lack of concern by Obama’s top decision-makers about committing boatloads of felonies.
Until we start seeing criminal indictments and convictions, it remains quite possible that they were right.
And Sarah Palin wants to believe that she can clean this mess up from the outside. I think that she got lobotomized last month.
The fact that Eric Holder will likely never appoint a special counsel makes it even more imperative that the office of the Justice Department inspector general should be above reproach.
AlGore called this
“if you want to get away with the perfect crime, control the investigation.”
Thanks for the ping!
And yet our news media is ignoring it.
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If Holder & the Obama did not know about F&F, why are they not demanding the heads of those who did?
You mean the DNC Media? What a surprise....
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