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Grassley going for Eric Holder’s jugular(gunwalker)
Seattle Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 17 November, 2011 | Dave Workman

Posted on 11/18/2011 5:24:28 AM PST by marktwain

Republican Senator Charles Grassley is closing in on Attorney General Eric Holder in earnest, dissecting his testimony last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a pair of commentaries published today and yesterday on his website, and they are damning.

Probably not surprising, since Grassley made it clear in his opening statement to the Judiciary committee last week that he believes the Justice Department has been less than truthful about who knew what and when they knew it. This column detailed his remarks at the time.

Yesterday, the Iowa senator zeroed in on Holder’s claim that Congress had voted to “keep law enforcement in the dark” about suspicious firearms purchases by private citizens, and today he challenges another Holder assertion that he was not quickly advised by Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler about details revolving around the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.

Earlier this week, Grassley ripped Holder and his subordinates over other details in the Fast and Furious debacle, as this column reported. He also blistered the attorney general on Mexican gun trace assertions, as this column noted. The senator has been a busy fellow

Of particular interest to Grassley is the timing of the arrest of suspected Operation Fast and Furious straw purchaser Jaime Avila, who bought two of the guns found at the Terry murder scene. Avila was a suspect for months in the gun trafficking investigation, but it was only after Terry was killed that he was arrested. Here’s Grassley’s take:

Jaime Avila could have been arrested for straw purchasing any time between January 2010 and Agent Terry’s death on December 15, 2010.—Senator Charles Grassley

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; castaway; cia; clinton; dea; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; grassley; gunrunner; gunwalker; hillary; hillaryclinton; holder; ice; obama; statedept
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To: marktwain

LOL. All for show. Nothing is going to happen to these chosen politicos.


21 posted on 11/18/2011 1:19:59 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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To: CPO retired
From the Washington Insider, via the Ulsterman Report (I don't have the date, it may be Nov.16)....."Obama is more confident these days. Pelosi has backed off. Issa appears to have done the same. Holder is holding the line. Information coming out of Chicago is still limited - clamped down on. That doesn't mean they (the administration) aren't nervous.. They are watching the Blago/Rezko thing. A company called Companion Security - Blago, Rezko, the Feds. It'a all brewing. Of course, the national media is burying all of this.

"Obama isn't just incompetent....he's something else. Something worse. I've been around a lot of asshole-arrogant politicians. Even a few criminal ones. Obama is different. This is a whole new level of corruption."

These are both blogs. Take 'em for what they're worth. I report, you decide.

Leni

22 posted on 11/18/2011 1:29:24 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal

That sounds like purely wishful thinking agitprop. Issa is also investigating Solyndra and has been in the news in the last few days hammering on that.


23 posted on 11/18/2011 1:45:38 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Art in Idaho; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; repubmom; HANG THE EXPENSE; Nepeta; ...
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Article, and comments through # 23.

[ # 22 has Ulsterman quote.]

24 posted on 11/18/2011 5:33:35 PM PST by LucyT
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To: MinuteGal

http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/tag/companion-security-partners/

here’s some info!


25 posted on 11/18/2011 7:07:34 PM PST by bitt ( Obama is so unpopular now that the Kenyans say he was definitely born in Hawaii)
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To: LucyT

ulsterman mentioned “Companion Security”...

see # 25


26 posted on 11/18/2011 7:11:11 PM PST by bitt ( Obama is so unpopular now that the Kenyans say he was definitely born in Hawaii)
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To: bitt

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/6452990-418/tony-rezkos-50-million-iraq-deal.html


27 posted on 11/18/2011 7:14:15 PM PST by bitt ( Obama is so unpopular now that the Kenyans say he was definitely born in Hawaii)
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To: bitt

Next week we will learn if Tony Rezko is the fall guy in Operation Board Games. Set up to protect Obama. Why wasn’t Rod Blagojevich prosecuted first? Why wasn’t Tony Rezko sentenced earlier? Rezko was never called as a witness.
We have a corrupt US Justice Department, with a corrupt prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, headed by a corrupt Attorney General, Eric Holder, headed by a corrupt occupant of the White House, Barack Obama.
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Of course we do, and don’t forget the corrupt MSM which is now like the old USSR Pravda. The coup is nearly complete, wonder how the ones that voted for the POS will like their new dictator.


28 posted on 11/19/2011 7:29:07 AM PST by mojitojoe (WH says potus didnÂ’t feel the earthquake. No worries. Another is scheduled for November 2012)
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To: sam_paine

You’re right and sometimes I wonder if I’m on FR or DUmmieland. Shame shame, not good to eat you own unless you are a supporter of the Marxist Hussein usurper in the WH. There are some candidates that I can’t stand. 2 that I don’t particularly like due to one or two things I disagree with them on, and 3 that I really like. Regardless of who wins I will be voting for them because I REFUSE to vote for Hussein and not voting is the same as voting for that Kenyan, Indonesian or whatever the hell he really is.


29 posted on 11/19/2011 7:40:51 AM PST by mojitojoe (Sarah said "ANYBODY BUT OBAMA" and that is how I intent to vote. NOBODY IS WORSE THAN HUSSEIN)
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To: MrB

Too many fear riots by “the black community” if Holder or 0bama, or any prominent black politician for that matter,
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Sigh...... seriously, if they are afraid of riots in the black community, then this country is so far gone there is no turning back.


30 posted on 11/19/2011 7:42:31 AM PST by mojitojoe (Sarah said "ANYBODY BUT OBAMA" and that is how I intent to vote. NOBODY IS WORSE THAN HUSSEIN)
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To: MinuteGal

I read somewhere that Darrell Issa is backing off his investigations because of not too subtle hints from the Obama administration. This is hard to believe, however, has anyone read anything from Issa lately?
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No and I believe Issa is wimping out


31 posted on 11/19/2011 7:43:20 AM PST by mojitojoe (Sarah said "ANYBODY BUT OBAMA" and that is how I intent to vote. NOBODY IS WORSE THAN HUSSEIN)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
“Grassley’s a bulldog.

Great to see this from Grassley. Not long ago we were not happy with him as he was lukewarm in opposition to the health care bill.

32 posted on 11/19/2011 7:44:00 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
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To: HereInTheHeartland
You know how pissy Chuck was about those $700 toilet seats...
33 posted on 11/19/2011 7:57:31 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Jerrybob; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; marktwain; theothercheek; jazminerose; AJFavish; ...
Eric Holder, btw, was Janet Reno's deputy back during the good old Clinton years.

More specifically, Holder was heavily involved in the Mark Rich pardon and the government kidnapping of the Cuban refugee boy, Elian Gonzalez, from his uncle's Miami residence.

34 posted on 11/20/2011 3:01:01 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

Had they not manhandled that Cuban middle-class family and publicly demonized them, we would have had President Al Gore. So really we owe Eric Holder a debt of gratitude. He p@##$#ed off the Cuban community so bad that their vote narrowly beat those of the dead-old-people-who-are-still-on-the-roles-voting-through-illegal-immigrants-channeling-their-spirit, just barely saving us from hearing Al Gore on 9/12 say that he will bring UBL to justice no matter how long it takes and how much money he has to spend (he spoke those worlds after the Kenya embassy bombing; on tv). On the other hand, that would have gotten me to Israel eight years sooner. So thank you, Eric Holder. Thank you. You saved America in spite of yourself.


35 posted on 11/20/2011 3:18:33 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: justiceseeker93; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks justiceseeker93.


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37 posted on 11/20/2011 6:58:29 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: justiceseeker93

Thanks for the ping!


38 posted on 11/20/2011 10:54:13 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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