Posted on 10/24/2014 10:12:50 AM PDT by wrhssaxensemble
President Obamas trusted senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, was a key player in the effort to cover-up that Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about the Fast and Furious scandal, according to public records obtained by Judicial Watch.
The information is part of a Department of Justice (DOJ) Vaughn index detailing records about the gun-running operation known as Fast and Furious. JW had to sue the agency for the records after the Obama administration failed to provide them under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A federal court ordered the DOJ to provide the records over the agencys objections. Yesterday JW reported on the broad information in the records, including that Obama asserted executive privilege for Holders wife as part of the administrations efforts to cover up the scandal.
Practically lost in the 1,000-plus pages of records is an index that shows Jarrett was brought in to manage the fact that Holder lied to Congress after the story about the disastrous gun-running operation broke in the media. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) ran the once-secret program that allowed guns from the U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels. Instead, federal law enforcement officers lost track of hundreds of weapons which have been used in an unknown number of crimes, including the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.
The files received by JW include three electronic mails between Holder and Jarrett and one from former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke to Jarrett. The e-mails with Holder are all from October 4, 2011, a significant date because, on the evening of October 3rd, Sheryl Attkisson (then at CBS news) released documents showing that Holder had been sent a briefing paper on Operation Fast and Furious on June 5, 2010. The paper was from the director of the National Drug Intelligence Center, Michael Walther.
This directly contradicted Holders May 3, 2011 testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, during which he stated that he, probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks. The October 4, 2011 date may also be significant because it came shortly after the August 30, 2011 resignation of U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke and reassignment of acting ATF director Kenneth Melson to the position of senior forensics advisor at DOJ.
The description of one of the e-mails, written from Jarrett to Holder, reads, re: personnel issues. Another, also from Jarrett, reads, outlining and discussing preferred course of action for future responses in light of recent development in congressional investigation. Unfortunately, the index is vague and thats all the information we have about them. Nevertheless, given the timing and subject of these e-mails, it seems clear that Jarrett quickly became a key player in the Fast and Furious cover-up in the immediate aftermath of the revelation that Holder had lied to Congress.
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October 31, 2008 · 1:20 pm
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Honestly, it’s quickly becoming a moot point since he’s leaving anyway but if the majority of Democrats in the Senate were at all intellectually honest, Holder would have been impeached long ago. While the AG has some discretion in enforcement, it is his job to be the chief law enforcement officer in the land; not willy nilly blatantly ignore laws and apply them only when able to ruin or harass opponents.
You're not telling me anything I do not know.
My greater point: How long is everyone going to continue to ACCEPT it? How long will the TALK continue before someone takes action and LEADS?
There was never any attempt to trace the guns to the cartels. This was SUPPLYING guns to cartels.
“The woman is probably the contemporary anti-christ on deck.”
The woman is on Soros’s payroll and is Obama’s handler.
Since there is no way to get at any of the Obama administration because Obama will not appoint a special counsel nor will Holder prosecute himself, this is all moot.
If I was only allowed one bullet ...
“Honestly, its quickly becoming a moot point since hes leaving anyway”
You can avoid liability for your criminal actions simply by leaving the job that empowered you to commit those crimes?
Honestly?
Darrell, is that you? Hey, happy retirement ... looser!
And don’t let the door hit you in the Issa as you leave.
That is EXACTLY what I've believed for a long time. She's the conduit between Obama and Soros. Soros dictates policy and Jarrett relays it to Obama.
So when is Issa gonna drag Lizard Face before the House?
Obola would get away with it because: (a) homosexuality is now an alternativePREFERRED lifestyle
True.
And don't think that the democrat party hasn't noticed this when it comes to future nominations!
“You can avoid liability for your criminal actions simply by leaving the job that empowered you to commit those crimes?”
Notice I said in the prior comment IMPEACHMENT. You can’t be impeached from an office you no longer “serve”. Criminal charges on the other hand are another story.... one that should hopefully get more interesting once the GOP (assuming they aren’t all spineless) holds both houses.....
This is why the left is pulling out all the stops to try to hold on to the Senate.
I hope if we take both sides of congress, we burn down the phone lines to keep McConnell and Beohner from being the leaders and get more conservative leaders in.
CGato
I am curious though what kind of hack Obama might name to be Holder’s replacement now that Klain is using his vastly superior medical experience and knowledge of Ebola to serve as a czar.....
“Does this mean the wheels are about to come off?”
If I understand this correctly, This helps Judicial Watch zero in on the specific documents to request. Mean while Jarret and her underling Obama are hand feeding those documents to hungry dogs and hard drives are mysteriously crashing at a record rate in DC.
Obama may be president, but the Iranian is the Chairman of the Board.
Didn’t Louie Gohmert allude to Jarret being behind these scandals a few weeks back? Maybe Louie has some moles in the Admin.
“If all I read is TRUE then WHY has no one ever been INDICTED?”
Is Holder going to indict himself? The Senate could appoint a special prosecutor, but not with Reid in control.
If we can take the Senate and appoint a special prosecutor Holder may wind up behind bars, and Learner too!
Scooter Libby is spinning in his grave and he has not even died yet.
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