Posted on 10/06/2011 9:44:10 AM PDT by opentalk
So now the Fast and Furious affair has reached Stage 2 of the classic Washington scandal: House Republicans have called for a special counsel to investigate Attorney General Eric Holder himself for possible perjury.
Justice Department documents indicate that Holder knew of the operation way back in July 2010 --far earlier than the “in the last few weeks” that he told congressional investigators under oath last May.
Memos from Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer and others to Holder clearly show the scope, if not the nature, of the disastrous project: “This investigation, initiated in September 2009 . . . involves . . . straw purchasers [who] are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug cartels.”
That’s the crux of the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ infamous “gunwalking” program, allegedly designed to track illegal gun sales to Mexican drug gangs by turning a blind eye toward, and possibly facilitating, arms sales in Arizona and elsewhere. The death toll so far is more than 200.
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When is Obama going to throw Black Panther defender, Fast and Furious liar and ultimate racist Holder under the canadian Barry Soetero bus? This is new perjury and Obama defending Holder is a lie to the American people. Bald faced lies.
I wouldn’t doubt that Holder has some “goods” on 0bama, maybe even proof of place of birth,
so Holder won’t get any “0bama bus tracks” on his back.
The Negro Nazi Party expects their Chocolate Reich to last longer than 4 years.
Problem is there's some whistle blower that need a shot of courage to blow this thing all to hell where it belongs. But I think from what I've read issa has the goods as per memos on holder so he's either gonig sown or in for a very rocky ride. The TEA partiers are now at the WH doorsteps and the scum of the earth are protestiong with thugs against Wall Street? go figure.
Again I don't doubt for an instant Holder knows where all the skeltons lay/lie but if Holder goes down I do not think he'll have the intestinal fortitude to go down alone unless Obama has a back door contract the Chicago way:
Obama: Look Eric BABEEE...Youse do time for me yo and you be a rich man when you make your bones in the slammer, hold line Holder"
"*click," Yeah Mac make sure Holder gets that nice bed in cellblock #9 where Bluto Shank man will silence him, thanks bye now.*click*
Hey Holder man, you still there? You have no problems I have it all set up if jail time you'll be protected, I PROMISE you..
*click*"
Cue Godfather theme song
The Italian Mob was the essence of class and civility compared to this bunch of thugs.
Exactly right. The GOP once again shows they have no balls and no brains, either.
The GOP truly is the Stupid Party. This scandal is full of real crimes that could make people do real time, and that’s why the GOP is going to assist the DOJ in sweeping this under a rug. This is now beyond political fun and games - someone with a Ivy League pedigree could go to prison over this — and we can’t have *that* happen.
IIRC the program started under Bush did have tracing enabled but under Obama that was discontinued.
Holder LIED, Agents DIED!!!
“Suppose Holder appoints a prosecutor? Takes no imagination to predict the outcome there.”
Probably true. Trial would occur in Washington D.C. It would be hard to get a conviction of Holder there even if they had a video of him conducting an illegal sale.
I believe Mexico is actually suing us. I hope that case takes off and forces Bambi and Holder out into the open.
Drip, drip, drip. Time is running out on Holder.
CBS has reportedly yanked Attkisson from further media appearances this week. But isn’t independent inquiry the function of a free press?But that's just the point - we have "a free press," but we don't have independent presses. Instead we have one "Associated Press." Independence would imply that the objectivity of all newsmen cannot be taken for granted. Exhibit independence, therefore, and you are "not objective, not a journalist."
Nobody thought there was a story in Watergate, either, until Woodward and Bernstein proved otherwise.But the difference there is that Woodward and Bernstein were after Republicans. And that is different. Republicans have (at least some of them, some of the time) principles other than going along and getting along with wire service journalism. Democrats don't.
“This is about perjury now. The senior law enforcement players in the Obama Justice Department committing perjury on video and in writing multiple times....”
Obama only wishes it were about perjury. The underlying scandal may be a really really bad one. It will be harder to eliminate the underlying scandal with a couple of resignations than a an incident of perjury.
Bad idea. These people aren’t shooters. They probably couldn’t operate the firearm, or, worse, might hurt someone else.
Please provide the link, thank you.
Please disregard prior post. sorry
Hopefully, they are forming a circular firing squad as we speak.
If that’s the case then Bush’s administration intended to try to catch the druglords and Obama’s didn’t. What WAS the reason for the Obama operation, if not to catch the druglords or keep track of those weapons in any way? What are the Obama people trying to hide by falsely claiming it was a sting operation?
That’s what the CBS reporter - and the rest of the world - needs a real answer to.
Two hundred plus people dead for the sake of a provably sheerly-political maneuver is a declaration of war against the people of the US and Mexico. I would say definitely impeachable.
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