Posted on 07/05/2011 4:41:42 AM PDT by marktwain
As the two Washingtons get back to business following the July 4 weekend festivities, and Operation Fast and Furious documents resume their flow from the Department of Justice to Senator Charles Grassley, it may be a good time to ask about a heavily redacted e-mail exchange obtained by the senator and offered as an attachment to testimony he provided to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The e-mails, dated Oct. 22, 23, 26 and 27, 2009 appear under the heading “Attachment 4” in Grassley’s attachments and they clearly show a couple of things. First, Operation Fast and Furious — now the object of two Capitol Hill inquiries including Grassley’s and the other by Congressman Darrell Issa — was a product solely of the Obama administration. Second, a lot of people knew apparently knew about it, or at least the strategy that was the basis for the botched operation.
The e-mail exchange has several names redacted, but there are some significant identifiable names who were evidently in on the creation of what was dubbed the “Department’s new strategy for combating Mexican drug cartels.”
“On October 26, 2009, emails indicate that there was a meeting of senior law enforcement officials at the Justice Department. It appears to have included the heads every law enforcement component of the Department, including directors of the FBI, the DEA and the ATF. It also included the U.S. Attorneys for all the Southwest border states, the Director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, and the Chair of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
I hope the liberal press hires as many people to look into this story as it did into the Palin e-mails. No, I’m not holding my breath.
CBS did some great coverage, hope they follow through
Last Friday, a source in Grassley’s office confirmed that Justice Department documents had started to arrive at Grassley’s office. That was part of an apparent arrangement, discussed by this column, that freed up three DOJ nominations in exchange for the release of the requested documents.
No doubt the unrelated event of Attorney General Holder dropping most of his CIA torture investigations have a similar quid pro quo.
Republicans have no spine. Holder and others need to go to jail.
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Fairly scant offering today...
Canal residents pushing for changes to San Rafael's vehicle impound policies
Man's arrest outside Live Oak spurs lawsuit
Voter ID laws in TX, GA, SC (history of voting rights discrimination) concern Dems
Brockton man killed fleeing gunfire
Obama And The U.N. Trying To Delay Texas’ Execution Of Humberto Leal
President, White House. And to: DOJ, U.S. AG Holder.That'll be it for all of them.
And one to the Brady Bunch for icing on the cake.
The NAACP and every race hustler will be screaming Racism & Lynching for targeting (pun intended) Barry and Holder. And cities will all burn. But if that's how it's to be, let it be so.
Lock and Load time's been a comin' anyway.
so when are obstruction charges filed?
I used to contend that the great irony of the information age would be that nothing would be remembered.
Seems I’m being proven wrong. No info goes away if anyone wishes it would.
Grassley: ‘Very High Up’ DOJ Officials in on ATF Gun Sting
Monday, 04 Jul 2011 06:25 PM
By Martin Gould and Kathleen Walter
Senior Justice Department officers were warned that plans to track guns to Mexican drug kingpins were doomed to failure, veteran Republican Sen. Charles Grassley has revealed in an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV.
And, he said, high-ranking members of the department were briefed on the Operation Fast and Furious and Project Gunrunner as far back as October 2009.
But Grassley says he does not want anyone to resign just yet until Congress has got to the bottom of the whole issue.
“I’m not asking for anybody’s resignation at this point because somebody resigns and then they want you to believe that’s the end of it,” he said. “There are too many people involved in it for me to be satisfied with one resignation.”
Read more on Newsmax.com: Grassley: ‘Very High Up’ DOJ Officials in on ATF Gun Sting
If this goes on long enough, they can probably get Holder (who certainly knew about it and authorized the operation), but they will never link it to “O”. Holder will fall on his sword first.
This is the latest meme that I'm seeing about this case. Calling it a "botched operation" or a failed operation. By the testimony of some of the people in charge of this operation, they intentionally allowed guns to be smuggled into Mexico, in fact arming Mexican cartels. This was their intention and their biggest problem is that they were caught prior to the time when they could use their new created "gun data" to infringe on the rights of the American citizen.
Scant but of great interest.
Thursday is when I’d appreciate such scant pings. That’s the morning of my Kiwanis breakfast meeting. But I usually have to keep up on the ping list throughout Wednesday because it seldom fails that Thursday is a busy post. The ping list gods are against me...
Yeah, well. You have to do the little dance and burn the candles. Didn't they tell you that when you established your ping list? Heads should roll!
Not griping. It’s no big deal. It’s just fluky that the list usually grows on Thursdays. So, I’ve learned to ‘work ahead’ on Wednesdays to compensate. The first week in the month is just a little harder because I have to get our monthly newsletter out before the meeting, as well.
The Pinglist Godz demand sacrifice, they are capricious and are related to the typo godz.
How are you two today?
Hey, Darks. I’m just fine, thank you. Bcsco seems to be a bit challenged by the ping list gods, but he’ll probably be all right since he’s a good guy.
What’s up? Or uploaded, as the case may be.
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