Posted on 12/28/2011 4:55:16 AM PST by marktwain
PHOENIX, AZ --(Ammoland.com)- The lamestream media told you:
“WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers told Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to fire some Justice Department subordinates over the flawed arms-trafficking investigation called Operation Fast and Furious,” according to Pete Yost, writing for the Associated Press, about Holder’s testimony to Congress in early December. [Democrats, by implication and omission, see no problem here and have asked for no action.)“Why haven’t you terminated the people involved?” asked Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that is investigating the arms-tracking operation.
“The operation’s goal was to follow the gun supply chain from small-time gun buyers at a number of Phoenix-area gun shops and make cases against major weapons traffickers,” AP writer Yost claims.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: It is widely recognized that the BATFE claims in Fast and Furious do not match the facts. There was a concerted effort NOT “to follow the gun supply chain” which BATFE helped smuggle out of the country. The conclusion, if facts matter, is that the smuggling operation increased the number of U.S.-supplied firearms to drug cartels, which were then found at crime scenes domestically and abroad. This manufactured increase was then used publicly to advance an imaginary threat, to justify increased government power, controls, and infringing on the Second Amendment.
The congressional committee, after an initial flurry of remarks and verbal jousting, stunningly refused to place Holder under oath, since he more than once said, “I’m here to tell the truth,” instead of taking an oath. That made my mouth hang open. This helps insulate him from a potential charge of felony perjury before Congress. He failed to testify under oath. The “news” media failed to report this tiny insignificant fact.
What the “news” also failed to report was only the most significant parts of the hearings. Holder, who repeatedly claims he is not stonewalling, performed a “document dump” on Congress, delivering more than 5,000 documents, most of them emails, and not a single one came from or was sent by Mr. Holder, the main unindicted conspirator in the smuggling scheme and the main target of the investigation. Actually no one has been indicted, thanks to Holder’s stonewalling.
That became obvious during questioning by Ben Quayle, who happens to be my representative. After noting that many in Congress seek Holder’s resignation, Quayle asked, “Will you resign?” Holder said, “No.” Naming and asking if the underlings just below him would resign, Holder replied “No.” Naming the underlings under them with the same question, Holder said, “No,” the three shortest answers he gave in the whole charade. Time ran out for Mr. Quayle, so the Chair of the committee asked the obvious last question, will anyone be forced out, and Holder continued with his terse replies, saying, “No.” In the AG’s opinion, as delivered to Congress, no one should be held accountable for these gross violations of law and multiple murders.
This is hard news, so was unreported for reasons that remain unclear.
Nearly a year after it began, Holder has refused to identify the person who authorized the operation, a very simple task, though it might implicate him or his boss, the current occupant of the White House.
A democrat at the hearing said that “2,000 automatic rifles” had walked. The AG said, “Yes, that’s correct.” No automatic weapons were involved, since these were retail store purchases. Hey, it’s such a small point, what do you expect. A big thank you to Rep. Ted Poe of Texas for asking some really hard-as-nails questions. The AG though ducked every one.
Daryl Issa threatened the AG with Contempt of Congress for failure to turn over documents. Contempt of Congress! This extremely serious development was also not widely reported, though Mr. Sensenbrenner’s vague allusion to an impeachment of someone (unnamed) did make the “news.” The AG’s omitted communiques in the document dump was perhaps dwarfed by the Justice Department’s flat refusal to release anything after Feb. 2, 2011, probably the most significant material. A Feb. 4 email which was a blatant lie to Congress, now admitted, has been “withdrawn.”
When Holder had previously said his 4-state long-gun registration scheme is a “reasonable requirement,” none of the officials challenged him — on the fact that it’s strictly illegal, he is specifically denied authority to do it by law, and in fact such action has been specifically outlawed by Congress. Maybe they didn’t know. And he didn’t know.
Holder and his department’s preposterous position that there is no statute against gun smuggling is a naked power grab without support. Not one official challenged that statement. Making each purchase is a separate federal felony, that’s 2,000 right there; lying about the nature of the purchase is a federal felony; delivering the guns to the real buyer is a federal felony; smuggling the guns across state lines is a federal felony; delivering the guns to foreign nationals without an export license is a federal felony; using undeclared income to make the purchases is a federal felony; handling illegal obtained cash is a federal felony; conspiring to do any of this with anyone is a federal felony.
Holder has acknowledged that the mess is a fiasco, inexcusable and a prohibited policy, and of course, people have been murdered as a result. In his opinion, no one pays for it. Prediction: That shall not stand.
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““Why haven’t you terminated the people involved?”
Why would holder do this? Terminating those people would most certainly be cause for those people to implicate him and his boss. Far better to promote, transfer and give those people raises in order to insulate himself and hussein from being charged with a host of other things as well.
When a person’s enmity with truth becomes conscious and calculated, it is very easy to do what Holder is doing.
The hard left do not simply use cheating and lying for personal gain. They are motivated by a hatred for all that is good.
The question is, which among them are aware that their target is goodness itself. I think few if any.
They who “call evil good and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20) are cursed by their belief in the Big Lie.
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When is someone going to start a newspaper to report on reporters/journalist??? We know they don't want their lives smeared like they smear others. How many affairs have they had? How many marriages? Do they beat there wife or children? Are THEY gay, transvestites or pedophiles and hiding it? Do they cheat on their taxes? How many abortions have they had or paid for?
They look for any little thing a conservative does and blow it up & anything liberals/socialist do they cover up. If I could, I would cancel my cable. My husband would die without fishing & hunting channel & football/hockey/... channels. Imagine if every conservative stopped cable and buying newspaper/magazines/Internet media and stop buying from liberal companies. The msm death watch would then be complete.
I’m amazed so few Americans have any clue as to who or what Eric Holder is. In many respects, he’s actually more dangerous than Obama because he operates in the shadows, with absolutely no accountability.
There you go, thinking like a conservative.
FYI: Such "embarassments" simply do not matter to people of the left. They don't care, it doesn't matter, and they are not embarassed.
The sh*t should be timed to hit the fan about July 15th... just in time for the RATs to be slimed for their crimes.
Worry not — hubris is always followed by nemesis.
would die without football and hockey......honey,that you?
No I can do without hockey (even though I am a hockey mom), football... and even Fox. Fox has been trying to manipulate us too on the election & I hate that.
Still say this shameful bunch will skate on any and every scandal uncovered, and the Republicans continue to allow the msm to set the rules for the race. Republicans have purposely morphed themselves into the biggest pu$$ies on the planet.
Not nearly as stunning as congress's lack thereof
Yes it will stand. This administration has the US by the b*!!s, the throat, the scruff of the neck and every other body part you care to mention. They have the lapdog media in their corner, The GOP looks as frightening as a neutered rabbit. Issa has the bark of a chihuahua. The 2012 election MAY fix the problem!
BATF gun running is not confined to border states. In tracking guns reovered from crime scenes around the country, the FBI is led to the store that sold it. The customer that bought it is non other than the BATF.
“The only true power comes from a barrel of a gun, therefore the PARTY must control all the guns so that no guns can be used to control the PARTY”.-Mao Tse Tung, Chinese communist dictator, liar, murder, torturer, mugger and thief.
“The 2012 election MAY fix the problem!”
I have little reason to believe the fix is not already in for the election.
And for the destruction of this country, be it with a bang or with a whimper.
Even our vaunted 2nd Amendment turns out to be, most probably, a paper tiger, producing an armed but soft and timid citizenry, full of occasional sound and fury, but signifying nothing.
Hope I’m wrong.
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