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ATF gunwalker update: Eric Holder to testify on Fast and Furious
CBS News ^ | Oct. 28, 2011 | Sharyl Attkisson

Posted on 10/28/2011 11:22:12 AM PDT by Smokeyblue

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To: wiggen
Cummings exercising a little damage control?

He's trying to ram home the line that this was a Bush-era operation. Which, in a small respect, it was, but back then, the straw buyers were intercepted and the guns never made it over the border.

21 posted on 10/28/2011 11:47:44 AM PDT by kevkrom (This space for rent.)
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To: Lurker

Yes, he’ll figure that THESE lies will trump and supercede his PREVIOUS lies.

Big Media will agree.


22 posted on 10/28/2011 11:53:22 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: blackdog

“Why is it a bit odd that the United States Attorney General is going to testify before congress about something that DHS Secretary Nepalitano knows nothing about?”

Don’t forget the Secretary of State. Hillary knows nothing about all of this. Even though by law the Sec of State’s office has to be given a heads up if unlicensed folks are going to be moving weapons. She says no they were not informed. Hillary and Janet have just been totally left out of the loop. Hard to believe. LOL!!


23 posted on 10/28/2011 11:54:50 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Smokeyblue
Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to appear before the House Judiciary Committee....

Has Agreed? Is he so lofty a member of the Politburo that he has that choice? Will he come in a ZIL Limo driven by a Black Panther henchman too? Will there also be a Samovar with hot tea for him to sip as he endures his ordeal? Maybe some caviar canapes too? God save the Republic.

24 posted on 10/28/2011 11:59:03 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Owl_Eagle

President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon and as I recall there were never any charges brought against Nixon.
Lest we not forget, these people are above our laws.


25 posted on 10/28/2011 11:59:59 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Smokeyblue

Well Hillary is already a pro at getting away with perjury.

She will simply tell Holder, All you have to do is say “I don’t remember”. The Republicans will buy it every time.


26 posted on 10/28/2011 12:01:36 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Smokeyblue

I HATE this administration. But this Congress is toothless. Were I Holder, I´d tell them to go to Hell.


27 posted on 10/28/2011 12:03:29 PM PDT by onedoug (lf)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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Gunrunner-Gate article archives

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28 posted on 10/28/2011 12:03:56 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Smokeyblue
You know why the Hildabeast hasn't been called to testify about her roll in Fast and Furious? It would be a waste of time because she's proved in past testimony that she suffers from CRS.
29 posted on 10/28/2011 12:09:14 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: yarddog
Hillary and Holder are buddies from way back when they had to work together to lie to the country on many issues/scandals.

You can bet she will be on the phone every night between now and Dec. 8 coaching him on what to say.

30 posted on 10/28/2011 12:13:00 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: kevkrom

” the guns never made it over the border. “

Actually a whole bunch did make it across the Border. And when that happened, the program was shut down within two/three days.


31 posted on 10/28/2011 12:16:18 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Smokeyblue

Hope they find a large smoker and grill hoders sorry ass til he turns pink.


32 posted on 10/28/2011 12:28:31 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (FUBO ( Real conservative or go fish))
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To: JaguarXKE
Isn't, like, lying to Congress, like a crime and stuff?"

Remember Scooter Libby! Railroaded not for lying, but for merely mis-speaking.

34 posted on 10/28/2011 12:30:10 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: MestaMachine

Ping to post #33.


35 posted on 10/28/2011 12:30:24 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
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To: Travis McGee
More time for those subordinates to compare their options.

Testify and make a deal.

Fall on the sword.

(Hmmm, who does Issa have who might drop a dime on me?)

I'll take "Testify and make a deal" for $800, Darrell!

36 posted on 10/28/2011 12:39:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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37 posted on 10/28/2011 12:40:17 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Smokeyblue

Interview with Representative Darrell Issa

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/10/27/interview_with_representative_darrell_issa_111856.html

KING: Do you take the president at his word? Do you trust the thoroughness of the administration’s internal investigation? And is there any sharing of information? Maybe they have information you would like. Maybe you have information that could help them.

ISSA: I do take the president at his word. I believe that he wants to hold all of those accountable.

I don’t take the attorney general at his word, because I get the distinct impression they want to make this go away by blaming low- ranking people, the resignation of the U.S. attorney, rather than realizing that plenty of people knew or should have known to stop this program and didn’t.

And we want to know that the safeguards, not just by name, but by position, will really be there in the future, because we can’t bring these two agents back to life. We can’t recall the 2,000 weapons.

But we can take steps to make sure this wouldn’t happen in the future. We owe that to the families. We owe that to the next administration, because this is not a Republican mistake or a Democratic mistake. This is the kind of mistake bureaucracies make. And if we don’t hold them accountable, who will?


38 posted on 10/28/2011 12:40:48 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
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To: Smokeyblue

In the interim, Congress AND Holder/Obama/DNC
are now responsible for every death, murder, grenade
atrocity between now and then.


39 posted on 10/28/2011 12:52:47 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Smokeyblue

ATF boss unfazed by firearm probe

http://couriernews.suntimes.com/news/crime/8428277-418/atf-boss-unfazed-by-gun-probe.html

The new acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is pledging to continue a crackdown on firearms trafficking from the United States to Mexico — despite embarrassing revelations about an ATF gun probe on the Southwest border.

B. Todd Jones, the U.S. attorney in Minneapolis, was appointed about seven weeks ago as acting ATF director. He was in Chicago for a convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Jones, who will remain U.S. attorney in Minneapolis as he runs ATF, said he’s been busy dealing with the fallout over Operation Fast and Furious, a subject of inquiries by Congress and the Justice Department.

Beginning in 2009, ATF agents allowed licensed gun dealers to sell weapons to illegal “straw purchasers” in an effort to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders. Yet the agents reportedly lost track of more than 2,000 firearms, two of which were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.

Earlier this month, Jones announced several high-level ATF management changes linked to the scandal. But in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, he said the inquiries into Fast and Furious won’t hinder gun cases.

“There was firearms trafficking going on from the United States to Mexico before this case went awry,” Jones said. “And there will be going forward. Our job as a law enforcement agency is to do the best job we can to disrupt and dismantle organizations and individuals who are engaged in that business. And that’s not going to stop.”


40 posted on 10/28/2011 12:55:33 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
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