Posted on 07/26/2011 10:01:05 PM PDT by Nachum
At a lengthy hearing on ATF's controversial gunwalking operation today, a key ATF manager told Congress he discussed the case with a White House National Security staffer as early as September 2010. The communications were between ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office, Bill Newell, and White House National Security Director for North America Kevin O'Reilly. Newell said the two are longtime friends. The content of what Newell shared with O'Reilly is unclear and wasn't fully explored at the hearing.
It's the first time anyone has publicly stated that a White House official had any familiarity with ATF's operation Fast and Furious, which allowed thousands of weapons to fall into the hands of suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels in an attempt to gain intelligence. It's unknown as to whether O'Reilly shared information with anybody else at the White House.
Congressional investigators obtained an email from Newell to O'Reilly in September of last year in which Newell began with the words: "you didn't get this from me."
"What does that mean," one member of Congress asked Newell, " 'you didn't get this from me?' "
"Obviously he was a friend of mine," Newell replied, "and I shouldn't have been sending that to him."
Newell told Congress that O'Reilly had asked him for information.
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Pretty soon they’re going to start playing “find the Republican.”
TOO LATE, they already tried that, by publicly trying to force Acting ATF Director Melson, A REPUBLICAN, out as the fall guy for all of this.
He turned whistleblower instead.
Pretty soon they’re going to start playing “find the Republican.”
TOO LATE, they already tried that, by publicly trying to force Acting ATF Director Melson, A REPUBLICAN, out as the fall guy for all of this.
He turned whistleblower instead.
Why can’t they hang the whole thing on Melson?
If he’s a Republican, the media will jump on him with both feet.
First to sequel gets the deal...He's the guy that showed up with his own personal attorney, on the 4th of July, instead of his government appointed attorney handlers.
This made the White House and all the other alphabet agencies recoil.
Er.. first to *squeal gets the deal
This would be enough to secure an arrest warrant and bust the door down with SWAT if it involved someone we never heard of.
I hope O’Reilly is a homebody and doesn’t like to go for strolls in the park!
Yeah. I thought you meant "First to SQL gets to not be laid off." Which is also true.
Issa should issue a subpoena to O’Reilly tomorrow morning. Freeze those emails. The door as indeed been opened.
I hope they take cover and take every precaution against Arkanacide. Wow. This WH is going to be in for some rough waters given everything that is going on.
Please Add me to the list.
Whoever cracks this case will be the new Bob Woodward, yet hated by the Communists + MSM.
Sharyl Atkisson again. How she remains employed at CBS is a mystery.
Ping!!
If true, this makes Watergate look like a church picnic.
Wow.
On another thread, someone suggested that Obama;s bizarre stalling while grandstanding on the debt deal is because he’s trying desperately to draw attention away from this scheme.
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