DOJ charges release of ‘Gunwalker’ reports impedes investigations

Examiner.com ^ | 3/24/12 | David Codrea

[Nachum]

“The latest twist in the tug of war over Department of Justice documents central to the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious came Friday evening, when a top Justice official refused a congressional request for subpoenaed documents and blamed GOP lawmakers over the leaking of sensitive information,” CNN reported Friday.

In a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich suggested that sensitive information relating to ongoing investigations is coming from their staffs.

“Late Friday, Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Ron Weich warned Issa, ‘We are deeply disturbed that the sensitive law enforcement information…has entered the public realm,’” William La Jeunesse of Fox News revealed. Advertisement

He said it is impeding the DOJ’s prosecution of current criminal cases arising from Fast and Furious.

A Congressional spokesperson for Issa made no apologies, saying the documents being leaked to the committee “are precisely what the Justice Department is hiding and what congressional investigators are seeking – basic information about who knew what when about Fast and Furious.”

Weich was the Justice Department official who claimed in a Feb. 4, 2011 letter to Sen. Grassley that “the allegation…that ATF ‘sanctioned’ or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser who then transported them to Mexico—is false.”

“I also want to assure you,” Weich wrote in the letter obtained by Mike Vanderboegh of the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog and Gun Rights Examiner, “that ATF has made no attempt to retaliate against any of its agents regarding this matter.”

This was the letter that was later formally withdrawn—a remarkable, almost unprecedented occurrence—due to “inaccuracies,” meaning it was not truthful.

Vanderboegh* and this column have obtained a copy of this latest Weich letter, posted in this correspondent’s Scribd account

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Does Holder have pics of Boner with a live boy or a dead girl?” Based upon the amazing cowardice of Boner, it might be a picture of him & TOTUS : )

[PGalt]

No, thank YOU Travis McGee! Another BUMP/LINK to an OUTSTANDING essay (I read it before...and it’s worth a multiple read).

http://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/efadGG.htm

(For FReepers and lurkers who may have missed it)

[Travis McGee]

Thanks, PG. I guess it’s out there now, anyway. Can’t be taken back, or erased.

[PGalt]

I guess it’s out there now, anyway. Can’t be taken back, or erased.

Nor, should it be.

Life, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of totalitarians.

I know...it's easy when you can still vote them out, stop them in their thoughts...prevent them from becoming "legislators" writing tyranny into "law" in the first place. It is much more difficult when they have gained a foothold in "government" through deception, or worse yet - through the willful ignorance of the voters. Then, the way back to law protecting the individuals right to their life and their property becomes more problematic. These are the political complexities in which we live...every day.