Valerie Jarrett Key Player in Fast and Furious Cover-Up After Holder Lied to Congress

judicialwatch ^ | OCTOBER 24, 2014 | Staff

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President Obama’s 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 agency’s objections. Yesterday JW reported on the broad information in the records, including that Obama asserted executive privilege for Holder’s wife as part of the administration’s 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 Holder’s 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 that’s 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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[bgill]

Raise your hand if you’re shocked.

crickets

[Conservative Gato]

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.....

At least them attempting to replace Holder before the next congress comes in tells us they are worried they might lose. Personally, I hope it is a historic loss for them.

With the liberal media, their culture, and their social media brownshirts all over trying to tell us how close it all is, I don't trust them. I hope and pray Americans are just as mad at them as I am and vote accordingly.

CGato

[tumblindice]

“one that should hopefully get more interesting once the GOP (assuming they aren’t all spineless) holds both houses.....”

Why would the Republicrats seek criminal charges against one of their own? Ass/u/me

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h231.html

Federal Official
Position
Date
Result
William Blount
U.S. Senator
Tennessee
January 14, 1799
Lack of jurisdiction led to dismissal of charges.
John Pickering
U.S. District Judge District of New Hampshire
March 12, 1804
Removed from office.
Samuel Chase
Associate Justice
U.S. Supreme Court
March 1, 1805
Acquitted.
James H. Peck
U.S. District Judge District of Missouri
January 31, 1831
Acquitted.
West H. Humphreys
U.S. District Judge District of Tennessee
June 26, 1862
Removed from office.
Andrew Johnson
President
of the United States
May 26, 1868
Acquitted.
William H. Belknap
Secretary of War
August 1, 1876
Acquitted.
Charles Swayne
U.S. District Judge District of Northern Florida
February 27, 1905
Acquitted.
Robert W. Archbald
Associate Judge
U.S. Commerce Court
January 13, 1913
Removed from office.
George W. English
U.S. District Judge Eastern District of Illinois
November 4, 1926
Resigned from office; dismissed.
Harold Louderback
U.S. District Judge Northern District of California
May 24, 1933
Acquitted.
Halsted L. Ritter
U.S. District Judge Southern District of Florida
April 17, 1936
Removed from Office.
Henry E. Claiborne
U.S. District Judge District of Nevada
October 9, 1986
Removed from office.
Alcee L. Hastings
U.S. District Judge Southern District of Florida
October 20, 1988
Removed from office.
Walter L. Nixon Jr.
U.S. District Judge Southern District of Mississippi
November 3, 1989
Removed from office.
William J. Clinton
President
of the United States
February 12, 1999
Acquitted.

Anyone still clinging to this charade that the Democrats will be held accountable,
try holding your right hand in front of you and ask for an indictment.
Then cup your left hand behind you, be patient and wait to see which gets filled fastest.

[MrB]

I wasn’t aware there was a reptilian transmission vector for ebola...

[Carry_Okie]

It’s putting the scandal into the White Hut that counts. The biggie is connecting the DOS (prep with multiple countries) to the ATF (F&F). That only goes through one person: the President.

[Agamemnon]

Didn’t Louie Gohmert allude to Jarret being behind these scandals a few weeks back? Maybe Louie has some moles in the Admin.

It took 58 posts on this thread to arrive at one that was even worth reading.

This is an important revelation because now VJ can be subpoenaed to appear to give account for the actions taken to buttress what became an AG held in contempt of Congress, who is also the subject of lawsuits which will follow him into private life.

It's not over for Holder just because he is leaving the Administration and it may only just be beginning for VJ.

Discovery takes time and favorable rulings from the Federal bench in these suits had to transpire to make Obama start to cough up the kind of information that can ensnare him. VJ is the real "one-heartbeat-away" from what can do serious damage to the White House. I agree with you: I think Gohmert knows the significance of this kind of thing in ways we don't.

We should be celebrating this event, not competing to see who's attempting to buck up their perceived comparative importance by whining the loudest about the supposed futility of it all (while all the Obama trolls lurking at this site just sit back and laugh at all of them.)

58 postings of dreck followed by one that actually said something worthwhile. Thank you.

FReegards!

[therightliveswithus]

The corruption is stunning

[WayneS]

It’s quite simply, really.

If she testified before congress, then she lied to congress.

[Brother Cracker]

[b4its2late]

Yep, it’s been a pattern for what was touted as the most ethical administration in history. Joe Wilson was right.

[TigersEye]

My theory from the start was that Hillary came up with the idea and Jarrett sold it to jugears and managed it.

[jmacusa]

Reptilian bitch.

[oldbrowser]

Jail them all! Seriously. I hope that whoever is elected in 2016 doesn’t take the soft approach that W did and let them go with a “Tut, tut!”

It will never happen. They are a regular den of thieves, if one is prosecuted it might set off a chain reaction that would engulf all of them.

[TigersEye]

Corrected text below...

Instead, federal law enforcement officers lost track of purposely allowed hundreds of weapons to be smuggled across the border and disappear which have been used in an unknown number of crimes, including the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Arizona, the murder of ICE Agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico and the murders of over 300 Mexican citizens and LEOs.

[Slambat]

Does this mean the wheels are about to come off?

The wheels came off the day the Obama issued an executive
order sealing his own personal records along with all
proof of his legitimacy or illegitimacy. It’s just that
there is no one in office who has the balls to do anything
about it. Nothing is going to happen to anyone who had
anything to do with it. This is all just for show as far
as congress goes. The only people who are doing anything
at all is Judicial Watch and Sheryl Attkisson.

[MasterGunner01]

Obama, Holder, Jarrett, and Hillary Clinton need to be doing 25 to life at the federal supermax prison in Marion, IL. Give John Gotti’s former cell to Dear Leader, Barack I.

[marktwain]

“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?”

What you are overlooking is that most people do not even know about it.

It is the old media that is the power in this country, they are slowly loseng power to the new media such as freerepublic, but not fast enough.

[M Kehoe]

Good evening, hope you are doing well.

“Joe Wilson was right.”

Day after day after...

5.56mm

[huldah1776]

How Muslim of her.

[Forty-Niner]

Obama’s pardons at the end of his term in office will tell the tale on who the real criminals in his administration are.