Posted on 07/06/2011 3:29:47 PM PDT by macquire
This morning, there was a stunning development in Congress’s investigation of the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” gun-running program: it was revealed that on July 4, Kenneth Melson, the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Obama administration’s intended fall guy in the scandal, broke ranks with his superiors. Without their knowledge, he gave an interview to Darrell Issa’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, accompanied only by his personal attorney. While a transcript of that interview is not yet public, it is clear that he blew the whistle on senior officials in the Justice Department.
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Mainstream media IS covering this. Here are just a few links:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20077264-10391695.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303544604576429902386223520.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/alcohol-tobacco-firearms-chief-ken-melson-clean-atf/story?id=14009585
Let’s be fair if we want others to.
Ah yes, Eric is trying to make this other group of darker skinned people his people too. ... Oh wait!
Nachum if your list is a Fast and Furious list, could you put me on it?
THIS IS GREAT..!! Is there hope? Maybe? Whoopee..!!!
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Excellent info, FlyingEagle. Thanks very much, and so true. I think he showed his hand too quickly.
Ann Coulter said it best when the compared Democrat and Republican “scandals”.
What Democrat would ever try to dream up a plan that would provide arms and supplies to one side of a war between two enemies of our country which might cause greater destruction to both, possibly open the way for hostage negotiations and at the same time, raise money to be sent to freedom fighters in Central America being denied aid by liberals who were rooting for the statist anti-American Cuban-loving Marxists to win out.
Liberal scandals involve stealing money from taxpayers to line their own filthy pockets, or in this case, move the country towards banning gun ownership.
The evidence suggests strongly that the purpose was two fold ~ to send firearms to favored narcotrafficantes, AND to build evidence to back up ATF (and DOJ/Holder/Obama) sponsored stories of last year about weapons flowing from the USA to Mexico.
So, no, it didn't just turn bad ~ it was bad from the beginning.
“combinations of Free Republic and Mexico “
Well here is another. Hey guys; keep your mess on your side of the border.
Is that as good as emailing my Congressman here in the US?
Lautenburg has blood on his hands with this one.
>>Is “Fast and Furious” the new name for the program called “Gunwalker”?<<
>They are two separate programs.<
No, they are one in the same.
>Now I’m confused...how is this program different than Gunwalker?<
They are the same program.
Now that it is known that there are multiple agencies involved and personnel in those other agencies didn't report what they knew, there is a massive obstruction of justice, and a coordinated criminal conspiracy being engaged in by Federal Employees who should know better.
It strains all common sense and any concept of credibility that anyone involved could not have foreseen that some of the weapons being "walked" into Mexico were likely to be used by Drug Cartel members against Mexican citizens, Police, Military members, possibly politicians, and against U.S. citizens, U.S. Law Enforcement members and possibly eventually, even members of the U.S. Military. I buy into what someone else posted, in that this operation constituted an act of war against Mexico. Mexico is fully within its rights to demand extradition to Mexico for trial of all persons involved in approving, financing, actively participating in, and consciously engaging in the obstruction of justice in this operation.
The WH posted a birth certificate on its web site that was the digital equivalent of hand drawn with crayons. The MSM didn't ask any hard questions about that. More to the point, they went to great extremes to defend it and smear those who did question it.
F and F is small potatoes next to that. So.......
One can only guess why Holder would want arms from US dealers killing Hispanics in Mexico, but the propaganda barry bassturd's admin fed to the whoreish media about most of the arms in cartels coming from America might be a clue as to what Holder and company were trying to accomplish.
Conflating the two distinctly different programs is now the talking points approach to connect this to Bush and absolve the criminal democrats of their crimes. Don't help them establish this blatant lie.
Or maybe the 1924 Democratic Nomination Scandal:
Trouble for the Democrats
In the early months of the campaign season Democrats eagerly anticipated recapturing the presidency, especially since President Harding, a well-loved Republican, had died and the Teapot Dome scandal promised to taint the Republican Party. The Democrats' hopes waned as Coolidge successfully distanced himself from the scandal, and their leading candidate, William McAdoo—President Wilson's treasury secretary and son-in-law—became more closely associated with the scandal, as well as with the Ku Klux Klan. Democratic success in 1924 depended on party unity, but Democrats could not find a single issue that could bring together the party's disparate constituents. Prohibition loomed as one divisive issue. "Wets" and "dries" each had a candidate who shared their views. The increasingly prominent Ku Klux Klan attracted many Democrats but repelled many others. As was evident in the 1922 election, Democrats were gaining voters in large urban areas. These new urbanités, however, clashed with the party's established rural base. ... .
On 24 June 1924 delegates assembled at Madison Square Garden in New York, a controversial host city given the heightened cultural division displayed during the primaries. Dry delegates never passed up an opportunity to express outrage at New Yorkers' flagrant violation of Prohibition, and the city supplied endless opportunities for criticism.
The Platform and the Ku Klux Klan
The Democrats' platform opened with the lofty statement that the party stood for "equal rights to all, and special privilege to none." Moreover, they pronounced their commitment to "human rights" to be above the Republicans' shallow commitment to "material things." Yet the Democratic platform lacked specific recommendations that would give substance to their rhetoric. William Jennings Bryan managed to slip a bit of radicalism into the otherwise bland political document by adding calls for federal aid to education, "vigorous enforcement of existing laws governing monopoly," government control of natural re-sources, and a public referendum on any declaration of war, The bulk of excitement surrounding the platform, however, came from debate over an excluded plank. Smith's supporters, wanting to embarrass McAdoo for accepting Klan support, proposed a plank denouncing the Klan by name rather than accepting a milder condemnation of efforts "to arouse religious or racial dissension." McAdoo forces argued that Smith's plank would destroy the harmony of the convention, and delegates defeated it by a margin of one vote, the closest in convention history.
THE FIRST RADIO COVERAGE OF POLITICAL CONVENTIONS
When Republicans and Democrats gathered for their 1924 national conventions, Americans nationwide heard the proceedings from gavel to gavel for the first time. Carried live on radio, both conventions were heard by millions. In these first convention broadcasts the new entertainment medium simply eavesdropped on the events, recording them as a bystander. An editor for The Nation noted that convention speakers addressed themselves exclusively to the delegates in the halls, as if they were unaware of their national audience. Conventioneers continued their traditional practice of demonstrating for their candidates even though radio could not effectively convey the excitement of these demonstrations. Lamenting that politicians had not developed a "radio-oratory," the editor hoped this shortcoming would be remedied before the 1928 campaign began. Some observers realized that once the novelty of radio had faded, listeners' patience with forty-seven-minute demonstrations that produced only muffled noise would wane. Thus, political strategists in the future would have to learn to integrate the new technology into their campaign plans and engage radio listeners directly.
The vote on the anti-Klan plank foreshadowed the difficulty the divided convention had in selecting a candidate, but still no one seemed prepared for the lengthy stalemate that ensued. The Democrats' procedural rule requiring that a nominee receive two-thirds of the delegates' votes to win the nomination further complicated an already complex situation. McAdoo and Smith had similar strategies. Each planned to understate their support initially and then increase his vote total slowly. The field was not limited to McAdoo and Smith. Delegates nominated and supported fourteen favorite sons and dark-horse candidates. Instead of dropping out as usual, many of the other candidates—each hoping to become a compromise choice in the face of a deadlocked convention—remained in the balloting, which began on Monday, 30 June. By the end of the week there had been seventy-seven rounds of balloting and neither McAdoo nor Smith was close to the 733 votes he needed to win the nomination. Several attempts to break the deadlock with rule changes were all defeated. The candidates' strategies reflected their escalating frustration. Each side began to hold out for his opponent's delegates to leave town. Balloting resumed the next Monday, 7 July. Increasingly, it became clear that delegates would not accept McAdoo or Smith, and they would have to choose a nominee from among the alternate candidates. Finally, on the 103rd ballot, after nine days of voting, the convention nominated John W. Davis, who had been the third-place candidate through most of the balloting. Davis, a cultivated gentleman and corporate lawyer, had served as ambassador to Great Britain in Wilson's administration. While the eleventh-hour decision was hardly a victory for anyone, Davis's nomination represented a strategic win for Smith's forces because Davis had the support of urban politicians.
The Vice-Presidential Candidate
Choosing Davis's running mate from among thirteen candidates, the delegates nominated Gov. Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska, brother of William Jennings Bryan, for the vice presidency with the minimum two-thirds vote. Bryan's nomination seemed to be an attempt to mollify the radical fringe of the party, and many dissatisfied delegates booed and hissed when Bryan's victory was announced.
congress has the power to subpoena and would send that to Marshall’s. They can hold Holder in contempt and he can’t stop the Marshall’s.
But yes technically they do fall under justice.
Really,,,?? The MSM asks the harder questions?
Since when? At the point that Democrat Party realists come to believe that trying for a second term may cost the Democrats the election, much as four years of Jimmy Carter gave us eight years of Ronald Reagan plus four years of George Bush.
And, when that point is reached, a Democratic Obama alternative would have to be advanced. And Hillary still has her supporters, particularly among the New York-and Washington based national media where she served as New York's US Senator.
Actually it’s better because the Mexican politicians who follow FR get the word. Your Congresscritter is NEVER going to complain to them herself.
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