Posted on 07/18/2011 4:30:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
The Department of Justice is trying to protect its political appointees from becoming embroiled in the broadening Fast and Furious gun-tracing scandal by refusing to release an internal "smoking gun" report that acknowledges the role of top officials in the program that allowed guns to flow illegally into Mexico, according to the head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Kenneth Melson, the ATF acting director, earlier this month also told congressional investigators examining the role of top officials in the ill-fated program that affidavits in support of wiretaps used in the operation are inconsistent with what Justice Department officials have said publicly.
Melson told the investigators that when he raised his concerns with the Justice Department about "institutional problems" with the Fast and Furious operation, department officials resisted his desire to share his thoughts with Congress.
"It was very frustrating to all of us," Melson told congressional investigators over the Fourth of July holiday, "and it appears thoroughly to us that the department is really trying to figure out a way to push the information away from their political appointees at the department."
Not only was the department slow to react, Justice officials even indicated to him they did not want him to cooperate with Congress, Melson said.
His comments appeared in transcripts released by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the top GOP member on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"The Deputy Attorney General's office wasn't very happy with us" at ATF, Melson said, "because they thought this was an admission that there were mistakes made. Well, there were some mistakes made."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I hope this zit festers for the next 12 months and is popped with vengeance 90 days before the election.
Next year is the time to impeach at least Holder et al. and dump this baby in the Senate. 17 rat senators are going for re-election.
Obama lied, and Citizens DIED!!
If we fought a War on Drugs......how is it that Drugs WON???
bump to the top
http://www.policeone.com/police-heroes/articles/4050230-Puerto-Rico-cop-fatally-shot-father-injured/
Is there another operation involved? Puerto Rico (US territory) has a exceptionally high murder rate.
No notation of the type of firearms used in the robbery or the number of suspects.
I hope Melson is in a WPProgram. So far one of the other whistle blowers was fired.
Remember the very last minute pardons as Clinton left office ? It was Holder who did the legwork setting those up and many on the DoJ were reported as being livid, especially with the pardon of Marc Rich.
I wonder if there’s some still there who’d love to see Holder get his just desserts, could be they’ve all retired by now.
Remember the very last minute pardons as Clinton left office ? It was Holder who did the legwork setting those up and many on the DoJ were reported as being livid, especially with the pardon of Marc Rich.
I wonder if there’s some still there who’d love to see Holder get his just desserts, could be they’ve all retired by now.
ping #24
Obama’s Waterloo ...
And only God knows how many Mexican citizens. I'll bet it's dozens, maybe more.
These things take time. Just a few days ago, some were complaining the media was totally ignoring this.
The source for this thread/article is the LA Times...
Just a SLIGHT Conflict of Interest there, eh??? Who has the power to arrest the Attorney General?
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I never thought I’d be cheering the ATF to bring the rest of the government down in flames. Truly, I live in interesting times.
The profit motive defeated the Soviet Empire, after all.
This is good to bring up again and again in the coming election. This administration thinks it can get away with these criminal acts, but it is going to take a candidate who will not let up and will hammer them time and again every opportunity with this.
The ones that claim to cover every little thing in the daily life of Obama POLITICO 44 has NOTHING on this serious scandal. POLITICO had a blurb way back when.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52402.html
An excellent point!
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