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Posted on 07/07/2011 7:40:58 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
The Justice Department is obstructing the congressional investigation of a U.S. law enforcement operation intended to crack down on major weapons traffickers on the Southwest border, according to the embattled leader of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Ken Melson, the acting director of the ATF, lobbed the accusation when he sneaked in for an interview with congressional investigators on July 4, two days ahead of his scheduled interview with the inspector general about the operation known as "Fast and Furious," Fox News has learned.
"If his account is accurate, then ATF leadership appears to have been effectively muzzled while the DOJ sent over false denials and buried its head in the sand," Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Eric Holder. "That approach distorted the truth and obstructed our investigation."
The Justice Department is reportedly looking to oust Melson, who has been acting ATF director since April 2009, as the agency deals with its biggest scandal in nearly two decades. Andrew Traver, who was tapped in November by President Obama to become the permanent ATF director, could be named as acting director until the Senate acts on his nomination, sources have said.
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It is unbelievable how the media and I believe the NYTimes are seemingly covering for Obama and his Justice Dept. by not headlining this story as it really is; Holder obstructing justice.
Enquiring minds want to know!
I smell what Issa’s cooking......and it smells delicious!
Very good question. At this stage it is obvious and I am sure Issa has all the evidence needed (he traveled to Mexico with a bipartisan committee) that Obama and Holder knew about this and they ordered it. Forrest Gump could figure this out.As of now Holder lied in sworn testimony claiming he had not known about this until two weeks before he appeared before Issa’s committee. Perjury and Obstruction for Holder and his Assistant AG. Obama will say he was not under oath and Holder will go under the bus.I do believe this is all serious enough for Holder to sing re: Obama. Melson is singing.
The administration is currently digging up dirt on this guy and will do anything to destroy his reputation and credibility. I hope his family is prepared for what's headed their way.
This is sort of like when the Nazis brought to light the Soviet atrocities at the Katyn Forest massacre.
You mean like Van Jones did?
oh, wait.....
I've not had a kind thing to say for him in the past, but I agree with you. While I suspect he's fighting against becoming the fall guy, I'll pray for him that he finds the integrity and moral courage to be forthright and honest through all that comes against him. Ultimately, it will be in his best interest to do so.
And he didn't.
Perhaps Obi will send Melson on a fact-finding mission to Michoacan?
There they go again, premptively legitimizing ATF's presumed version of their motivation before the investigation is complete!
How do we know, till we've actually DONE the investigation, that the intent was not explicitly to gin up fake "evidence" for the left contention that it's the fact that we still have rights that's fueling Mexico's crime problem? And isn't it journalism's responsibility as the watchdog over government infringements of our liberty, to make the LEAST charitable assumption till proven otherwise, while being clear that at that point it IS just an assumption?
The part of this which still irritates me is the news still gives them credit for good intentions even now that it is pretty clear that they were not trying to trace guns.
They were sending so many guns into Mexico so they could bolster their claim that 90% of crime guns in Mexico come from the U.S.
True, but it may not be his choice. He might get carried there after committing suicide by shooting himself three times in the back of the head.
Exactly the point I made in my #15. Those news stories might end up robbing the investigation of any impact or any ability to show the statists up for what they are. People might walk away from this at the end, if they have any impression at all, it might be that this was a noble idea with a flawed implementation. And the honest guys at the lowest levels, who are actually the heroes of the story, might end up the ones everyone assumes screwed up.
I also want to know how a whistle blower that testified got fired. As well as Melson needs to be in a witness protection program; but what do you do when the ones that he is being protected from have full access to where he is because they are the AG and POTUS?
You are exactly right and there is no doubt that the media know what they are doing.
They are consciously giving cover even while making just enough noise to claim they are reporting it.
Yes, as well as Drudge not headlining any F&FGate stories.Why wait for Holder to resign and Obama to be impeached? Keeping in mind that in order to call the POTUS to the committee for questioning I think it would have to be an impeachment? OR could a sitting POTUS give a sworn deposition?
And this is FOX!! What do we have to do to get someone to do their job, start ANOTHER network??
Exactly!
One of the agents whistle blowers was fired and the media kept it on the down low.
It will slowly come. they can’t avoid this..it turns out Gunwalker was a national strategy.
No way Holder just found out about and No way that Obama didn’t know..and know way the CIA didn’t know.
They were letting guns walk to Honduras.
Reporters would investigate and report.
Propaganda, official or tacit, avoids/spins the material as needed lest reprimands occur.
If Holder becomes the fall guy, he will receive a pardon from Obama. He will not turn on the community organizer turned president.
The DOJ’s response is unbelievable! They cite a 15 June 2011 statement of Issa’s that they were (all of a sudden) responding to subpoena’s so all is well...
http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/07/justice-department-snipes-back-at-issa-grassley/
I like your sense of humor...
this obama thing? America corrupt to the core!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3aCfR8rmrw&feature=youtu.be
Of course. They were cooperative. Nothing is amiss. Apologies for any confusion. All is right there as requested, printed in black-and-white (well, mostly black. An awful lot of it really. But it’s all there. Honest.)
Standard early dodge. “Problem? What problem? Oh, you misunderstood, and now our feelings are slightly hurt...” Throw it back at the opposition to explain, again, in more detail, distracting and delaying from the real issue: GUILTY AS HE!!.
“what do you do when the ones that he is being protected from have full access to where he is because they are the AG and POTUS?”
You keep him as high-profile as possible.
Yep. I think it is a typical Saul Alinsky tactic.The horrifying part is the media is also spinning for them. Tax payer money used to buy weapons so the commiecrats can pass laws to take them away from us.
Vince Foster didn't actually 'go' there either, did he? Wasn't he 'taken' there?
The a difference between obstructing a Congressional Investigation and "Obstructing Justice" in the legal definition.
That's why it's time for a Special Prosecutor. A crime has been committed by persons in the DOJ AND the DOJ is obstructing a Congressional Investigation AND is not bringing criminal charges against any of the actors or conspirators.
Textbook case.
>>The part of this which still irritates me is the news still gives them credit for good intentions even now that it is pretty clear that they were not trying to trace guns.<<
Last night O’Reilley was asking the question of how the jury could possibly find Anthony not guilty when two FBI “experts” testified against her. For all the intellectual people who appear as guests none of them said a peep about Americans rapidly increasing loss of trust in our law enforcement agencies. Is it deserved?
I predict he will not sing. He will hold out for a Presidential Pardon. If a pardon is not forthcoming, he will sing and sing and sing.
Not a single word about the charges from a US Senator and Congressman that the Attorney General is personally obstructing justice in an international case of taxpayer funded gun running to drug gangs. Guns that were later used in multiple killings of Mexican citizens and a US border control agent.
And people who read the NY Times consider themselves well informed. Morons.
There should be a law against a POTUS pardoning their own AG, admin or cabinet official.Obama would pardon himself before he resigns he is so corrupt.
Which was too bad for the other people flying with him that day.
I had to laugh. It is true. One thing despots are good at is covering up for one. Then mysteriously people kill them selves. Thats weird we didn’t even know he was upset. Yea Mr Melson better be heavily armed.
Unless the grass has been replaced with carpet at Ft. Marcy Park I do not think it is a place of danger for him to go too...if like Foster by the time he got there he would already be cold and it and the danger past and done for.
Harry Reed and MSNBCNBCABCCBSPBSCNN “So what. Everybody obstructs justice when they run guns! George Washington was a gun runner who obstructed justice, too! He sold guns to criminals rebelling against government law, according to the majority of University historians!”
The Justice Department is obstructing the congressional investigation of a U.S. law enforcement operation intended to crack down on major weapons traffickers on the Southwest border (but instead the guns have been used to kill American Citizens!), according to the embattled leader of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.Fox News, I never knew you.
Eric is NOT going down...he’s the emperor’s pal and co-conspirator.......he’ll get a MEDAL, not a pink slip.
I think the New York Times gives us the best direction to this problem.
“He’s Impeachable, You Know”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/opinion/03bowman.html
Obama and Holder were probably shocked that Melson gave testimony without their permission. Holder will go under the bus with all of the other’s aboard the Obama express to communism. I am sure Melson is ‘one of them’ he was in on it but decided he was not rotting in jail for them. Holder may do the same.
“If Eric goes down, will he cut a deal to take down Ubama instead?”
Personally don’t think so as these people (Holder at that echelon) are chosen by their leaders with specific understandings of how they will operate, and what they will do if caught. This is a war, a psycho war if you will, but still a war with an army intent upon winning.
Socialism on the move.
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