Posted on 06/11/2012 5:47:16 PM PDT by marktwain
The Law: A House committee has announced a June 20 vote on whether Attorney General Eric Holder is in contempt of Congress for withholding documents in the "Fast and Furious" scandal. It can't happen soon enough.
For more than a year, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has labored to find out the truth of White House involvement in the blood-drenched debacle known as "Fast and Furious."
For now, all that's known is the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives intentionally let straw purchasers buy 2,000 deadly weapons from U.S. gun dealers, and then let them "walk" across the border to arm Mexico's murderous cartels.
The official story has been the agency was just trying to trace them. Curiously, it has made no effort to do so.
It looks like a fig leaf against evidence pointing to a White House effort to encourage mayhem in Mexico as a means of building political momentum for gun control in the U.S., the old Obama administration pattern of politics taking precedence over duty to country.
Yet Holder and his White House bosses claim nobody knew a thing and the ATF was just full of bunglers.
Whatever the truth, the Justice Department is hiding something. Holder and his minions have withheld documents since February 2011 — about the time they were going into damage-control mode over the scandal — and these could reveal the truth about what the White House knew. Instead, they've stonewalled Congress.
Holder himself has misstated and backtracked on claims to the House Oversight Committee in the past year, while a National Security Council official who's advocated gun control in the past — the just-resigned Dan Restrepo — was in receipt of ATF emails.
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Gunwalker / Murdergate ping.
EH of WACO, OKC, Elian G., etc could care less.
Ugly-arrogance is typical Obamanism.
Mister Holder, have you been offered in any manner (however obliquely or via any messenger) a pardon in exchange for your evasive and untruthful testimony?
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They're just killing the Mexicans and Border Patrol Agents that Americans are too lazy to kill themselves.
Sad that they believe we are really 'that' stupid. But then; we have only to look at what they get away with; to know why they not only enjoy the first laugh; but the last.
I love the idea of going into an Independence Day holiday feeling the bonds of government slide from my ankles.
I love the idea of going into an Independence Day holiday feeling the bonds of government slide from my ankles.
they sold guns to the drug dealers...
they helped put their ‘competitors’ out of business...
and they laundered hundreds of millions from the sale of the drugs.
the only thing we haven’t done in that business is production and shipping
as far as I know
Did we taxpayers pay for any of these guns?
We were certainly paying the salaries of the ATF employees, paying the salaries of Holder and his underlings while they directed this murderous project, and paying Obama’s salary when he designed and ordered this murderous project.
We are all guilty of allowing our tax dollars to support this bunch of thugs.
He's a mass murderer that needs to do some quality road-time in an orange jump suit with a bunch of ugly packers.
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