Posted on 05/15/2014 4:23:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson was openly irritated both with Attorney General Eric Holder and with the U.S. House of Representatives over whether executive privilege allows Holder to withhold documents on Operation Fast and Furious. But she also signaled she would rule against Holder in part, making it likely that Congress—and the public—could learn the truth about a gun-running scandal that ended with a murdered federal agent.
Berman began today’s hearing in Washington, D.C.’s federal district court with an opening statement about this case “concerning the suspected illegal flow of firearms from the United States to Mexican drug cartels.” She said that the “risks and flaws” of the Obama administration’s program were “tragically realized” when U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered with a firearm that the administration let flow to the cartels as part of this program.
But she emphasized that the May 15 hearing was not about those issues, and instead narrowly focused on whether President Barack Obama could assert executive privilege to protect Holder’s refusal to hand over certain documents to Congress. Those documents concerned why Holder misinformed Congress on Feb. 4, 2011, claiming that the Department of Justice (DOJ) never allowed firearms to make it into Mexico.
On Oct. 11, 2011, Congress subpoenaed all the relevant documents that would explain why Congress was misinformed, including whether the misinformation was deliberate deception.
On June 20, 2012, DOJ informed Congress that Obama asserted executive privilege over those documents, saying they would reveal the deliberative process at DOJ and threaten the constitutional balance of power. Therefore Holder would not provide them. Holder became the first sitting attorney general in American history to be held in contempt of Congress.
Berman harshly criticized both sides, saying, “Reading the briefs were somewhat distressing.” But the Obama-appointed judge was especially critical...
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And the walls come tumbling down!
The list, Ping
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Bush did the same thing that Clinton did (and before him, GHW Bush, and before him ... going back at least to Reagan), ask for resignations of all US Attorneys upon taking office.
The thing that got Bush wasn't that HE fired some at the start of his second term. To this day, we don't know WHO requested a few US Attorneys to step down, except we know it wasn't the president. Bush "fired them all" (a few always escape, due to being on some ongoing investigation) when he first took office. That passed without any remarks. It was the "fireing of a few" at the start of Bush's second term that got the press attention, and the evidence is that some political hack in the WH (Rove, not even elected!) was behind ordering a few out.
Like, Dude, that was over 3 years ago!
Dude
ICE Agent Jaime Zapata and his partner, Victor Avila, were ambushed at a fake roadblock in Mexico. Were they set up? If so by whom?
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While the weapons found at the Zapata murder scene were not from among the Fast and Furious guns, this revelation is profoundly significant, because it directly contradicts sworn testimony by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.“I have no information to that effect, no. I don’t know one way or the other,” she replied to a direct question on any Fast and Furious connection by Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas.
Word games. Here's the little trick Napolitano, Holder and ATF are playing. F&F was an ATF operation run out of the Tucson AZ office. But some guns were walked out of Texas gun shops which puts them in the jurisdiction of Texas ATF offices so those ops must have had other names. So far I have not seen any reporting on what those op names were.
Armored SUV could not protect U.S. agents in MexicoU.S. investigators recovered one of the military-style semi-automatic weapons used in the attack that killed Zapata.
The gun came from Texas.
Ballistic testing of spent shell casings and the raising of an obliterated serial number revealed the weapon was a popular Romanian-made AK-47 knockoff purchased at J&J’s Pawn Shop in Beaumont, smuggled south to the Zetas by a methamphetamine trafficker named Manuel Gomez Barba, a U.S. citizen.
ICE agent's family files wrongful death claim against Justice Dept.
We know the truth and so does congress. Any congressman that says he doesn't is a liar.
As far as the portion of the American public that doesn't, we could stick them with a fleet enema full of the truth and they still wouldn't comprehend it.
Thanx
“If eric the red refuses to comply can the judge order him arrested by US Marshals?”
“The United States Marshals Service is based in Arlington, Virginia, and, under the authority and direction of the Attorney General, is headed by a Director, who is assisted by a Deputy Director.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service
New Headline:
IRS Signals Judge’s Ass is Grass!
Holy edumacashun, Batman, how much skoolin' has this Obama judge got?
HF
I expect holder will refuse any way, daring anyone to do something about it. It’s worked for him so far, why stop now?
In a time of universal cowardice, one person with integrity is a Revolutionary act...
(paraphrasing there...)
Good to see it.
Very interesting, perhaps she sees the writing on the wall or read what I saw at the coup. Hat tip to McGee.
Dude, that was three years ago!
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