Posted on 10/1/2011, 2:39:47 PM by PhilosopherStone1000
The White House sent another installment of documents to Congress on Friday detailing White House staffers' knowledge about the controversial "Operation Fast & Furious" gunrunning probe run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.
However, the chief counsel to President Barack Obama, Kathryn Ruemmler, indicated that the White House was withholding an unspecified number of internal e-mails exchanged among three National Security Staff aides.
"These internal NSS emails are not included in the enclosed documents because the [Executive Office of the President] has significant confidentiality interests in its internal communications," Ruemmler wrote in a letter to House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The letter, posted here, was obtained Friday by POLITICO.
The latest batch of 102 pages of records partially duplicated information previously sent to Congress and didn't appear to include any smoking guns showing that White House officials were aware that the operation involved allowing hundreds or thousands of guns to flow essentially unimpeded from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels.
"As today's production makes clear, none of the communications between ATF and the White House revealed the investigative law enforcement tactics at issue in your inquiry, let alone any decision to let guns 'walk,'" Ruemmler wrote in response to a letter Issa and Grassley sent to National Security Adviser Tom Donilon earlier this month.
Sounds like people are getting close to getting the goods and asking the right questions.
WH “We will only give what we want to”
Input needed. Have now started a new ping list called BORDER WARS since so many of these stories are starting to intersect and overlap. I would like to keep the Gunwalker threads separate. Let me know if you want on the Border Wars list. It will NOT be the same as Gunwalker, though they might overlap occasionally. Please ping me to any articles you think fit in this catagory. Thank you.
The president’s version of the 5th amendment.
I’d like to see Mexico take a more active role since they are the aggrieved party.
FYI
Note that this letter:
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM156_issa_fast_furious_wh_letter_093011.html
ONLY refers to Operation Gunrunner, which was a legitimate operation. It does NOT refer at ALL to Fast and Spurious.
I'd almost guarantee that there's going to be a flood of lawsuits resulting from this illegal "rope-a-dope" scheme right along with the eventual criminal prosecution of a number of the players. It's just a matter of time!
“significant confidentiality interests”?
You have Executive Privilege. That is it.
That may be true, but it won’t be within a time window that will do any good. It will just look like sour grapes and no lessons will be learned.
Mexico is run by a bunch of corrupt socialists who have the same interest as Obama abour destroying the United States.
Mexico is run by a bunch of corrupt socialists who have the same interest as Obama abour destroying the United States.
“the White House was withholding an unspecified number of internal e-mails exchanged among three National Security Staff aides. “
Yeh the ones that show the White Hut was in it up to their necks.
I just read all 102 pages.
Not a smoking gun, but the proximity of guy with a warm gun, dead body, and fresh smell of gun smoke are gonna lead to some very uncomfortable questioning.
The emails expressed dissatisfaction with apprehending the straw buyer as that ends that particular path of investigation. They wanted to know who the next links in the chain were across the border, and took careful proud notes of where straw-bought guns ended up. Nobody said “let the guns walk” but they were keen on studying the consequences thereof.
Interesting line sent from ATF to WH:
“Want to give you a good example of the frustration we have in trying to assist Mexico with the firearms trafficking issue. In this judicial district (Arizona), in cases involving the “straw” purchase of firearms eventually recovered in Mexico and where we only have a confession by the “straw” and a falsified ATF F 4473 (form filled out by buyer and licensed gun dealer)...”
The straw buyer was apprehended, and the gun was found in Mexico. Now maybe he was arrested over another incident, then backtracking the paperwork links him to a found gun...or...
It appears that the letters held back show the path of the bloody footprints on the other side of Obama’s door in your modified cartoon.
Chicagoland rule #1 if you can’t hide the body hide the facts.See Obama’s past.
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