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Sheila Jackson Lee: This F&F debacle started under Bush
Hot Air.com ^ | June 20, 2012 | Erika Johnson

Posted on 06/20/2012 5:04:01 PM PDT by Kaslin

This is getting tiresome. The a href=http://www.therightscoop.com/sheila-jackson-lee-blames-bush-admin-for-fast-and-furious-supports-holder-because-of-patent-law-or-something/>Right Scoop grabbed this clip of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on C-SPAN reprimanding Republicans’ investigation into deadly gunwalking scandal Fast & Furious by — yet again — chalking it up to one of President Obama’s ‘inherited’ problems.

Sheila Jackson Lee blames Bush for Fast and Furious, says Holder is innocent

“This Fast and Furious debacle started under the Bush administration, and it is been evidenced by various reports that it started with the ATL office in Arizona unbeknownst to leadership in Washington D.C., at least leadership that came in under the Obama administration in this instance, Eric Holder. … We have to be adults in this process, particularly when we’re trying to get to the bottom of the, of the issue of Fast and Furious. … And so I defend the general, one, on the service that he has given to this country, over decades of public service in the federal law enforcement, and the work that he is doing in the area of civil rights, in the area of federal crimes, in the area of mortgage relief, settlements that he’s brought about because of that, and the help that he has given in patent law and inventions in terms of protection, and trust. …”

On several occasions during the multiple hearings at which he’s testified, Attorney General Eric Holder has repeatedly (and smugly) tried to assuage his investigators by insisting that Operation Wide Receiver, which was implemented under the Bush administration, was the template for Operation Fast and Furious. Firstly, as Rep. Dennis Ross noted during this morning’s Oversight Committee meeting, comparing F&F and Wide Receiver is a “red herring” the DOJ is using to try and redirect blame back on the Bush administration — the tactics used in the two operations were fundamentally different. Secondly, the DOJ just retracted Holder’s statement last week that his Bush-administration predecessor had been briefed on the operation. Here’s the memo from Sen. Chuck Grassley:

Re: Second retraction of Fast and Furious Assertions

Da: Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The Justice Department has retracted a second statement made to the Senate Judiciary Committee. During a hearing last week, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that his predecessor, then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey, had been briefed about gunwalking in Operation Wide Receiver. Now, the Department is retracting that statement and claiming Holder “inadvertently” made that claim to the Committee. The Department’s letter failed to apologize to former Attorney General Mukasey for the false accusation. This is the second major retraction the Justice Department has made in the last seven months. In December 2011, the Department retracted its claim that the ATF had not allowed illegally purchased guns to be trafficked to Mexico. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s letter and the Department’s response can be viewed here-1.

Grassley made the following comment on these developments.

“This is the second time in nearly seven months that the Department has gotten its facts wrong about gunwalking. Attorney General Holder accused Attorney General Mukasey, without producing any evidence, of having been briefed on gunwalking in Wide Receiver. The case Attorney General Mukasey was briefed on, Hernandez, is fundamentally different from both Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious since it involved cooperation with the Mexican government. Attorney General Holder’s retraction should have included an apology to the former Attorney General.

As Rep. Trey Gowdy vociferously pointed out during the Oversight meeting this morning, it doesn’t matter what party this operation came from or what other administrations have done in the past — none of that does anything to mitigate the fact that Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is dead, killed with guns that the U.S. government allowed to freely walk across the border to Mexican drug cartels. Righteousness demands that we figure out how and why this happen, regardless of whether or not AG Eric Holder has a good record on “civil rights” and “patent law.”

ep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) Slams Administration Over Fast & Furious

Heh. I think it’s safe to say that he voted “yes” on holding Eric Holder in contempt.


TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: 2deadfeds; 300deadmexicans; atf; banglist; brianterry; dea; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; ice; jaimezapata; leftwinglunatic; moreoldnews; murdergate; obama; terry; zapata
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1 posted on 06/20/2012 5:04:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

You know they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel with they bring in Sheila Don’t-You-Know-Who-I-Am Jackson-Lee.


2 posted on 06/20/2012 5:07:27 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Kaslin

She needs one of those swimming nose plugs stat her brains have just about leaked all out of her head


3 posted on 06/20/2012 5:08:37 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Kaslin

Let’s end this lie, RIGHT NOW...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KloKRe0Qgs


4 posted on 06/20/2012 5:08:49 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: Kaslin

This seems to be the very shaky lie they’re going to run with.


5 posted on 06/20/2012 5:11:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Kaslin

SJL rambling about mortgage relief and patent law - her braids are on way too tight. What an embarrassment she is to the state of Texas.


6 posted on 06/20/2012 5:11:29 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Kaslin

If you had sipped your beer every time a Rat blamed Bush or mentioned Gun Walker at the contempt hearings today, you’d have been drunk before the vote. I really believe that every one of them without exception made sure to repeat the lie.


7 posted on 06/20/2012 5:11:39 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Kaslin
Oops I forgot the opening bracket. Here is the correct link that goes with the first paragraph

Right Scoop grabbed this clip of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on C-SPAN reprimanding Republicans’ investigation into deadly gunwalking scandal Fast & Furious by — yet again — chalking it up to one of President Obama’s ‘inherited’ problems.

8 posted on 06/20/2012 5:12:29 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: bgill

Has Jackson-Lee located the planet Mars yet?


9 posted on 06/20/2012 5:13:16 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: cripplecreek
This seems to be the very shaky lie they’re going to run with.

Maybe, but they know they can get away with it because they know Bush won't defend himself, or his administration. He didn't do it when he was in office, and he certainly won't do it now.

10 posted on 06/20/2012 5:15:03 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: cripplecreek
This seems to be the very shaky lie they’re going to run with.

Maybe, but they know they can get away with it because they know Bush won't defend himself, or his administration. He didn't do it when he was in office, and he certainly won't do it now.

11 posted on 06/20/2012 5:15:11 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: cripplecreek

It seems as though if it were Bush’s fault, Holder would have come clean to make himself look good and Bush bad.


12 posted on 06/20/2012 5:15:11 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (they all stink)
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To: Kaslin
Bush TRACKED the weapons for the purpose of catching criminals. Obama DIDN'T TRACK the guns because the purpose was to escalate gun chaos in order to justify placing harsher restrictions on American firearms dealers (FFL's).

BIG difference with a different intent!

13 posted on 06/20/2012 5:16:57 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Kaslin

Hey! Congresswoman Lee. Are you sure it wasn’t the fault of President Hoover?


14 posted on 06/20/2012 5:17:24 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: al baby

And they left a very small puddle.


15 posted on 06/20/2012 5:17:37 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Kaslin

Sheila’s a little slow on the uptake, isn’t she? This has been out there for a while, and her saying it, too isn’t going to make it any less of a lie.


16 posted on 06/20/2012 5:18:05 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Kaslin

So they’re going to make EVERY issue racial from now on?!


17 posted on 06/20/2012 5:21:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: Kaslin

Obviously Squealer Jackson Lee is attacking Bush because she and the rest of the CBC cannot handle the fact that America had a white president. There is no other reason but Racism possible.

She needs to have that pointed out repeatedly so I’ll repeat it. The CBC cannot stand the fact America has had white presidents and no other reason but Racism is possible for their attacks on Bush.

OK, perhaps they are afraid the flag on mars will capsize it. But aside from that, it’s racism.


18 posted on 06/20/2012 5:21:58 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Kaslin

Laughed out loud while reading the title....AND what were they all doing under the bush? .....It’s been a loooong day. Good day, but long.


19 posted on 06/20/2012 5:25:02 PM PDT by hoosiermama ( Obama: " born in Kenya.".. he's lying now or then?)
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To: Kaslin

“Fast and Furious debacle “

So, she admits it is an important and terrible issue.


20 posted on 06/20/2012 5:28:07 PM PDT by CodeToad (Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called 'gay' instead.)
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To: Steely Tom

If Bush was a true conservative, he’d be out correcting this and every other “Bush’s fault” accusation. But you’re right, it isn’t going to happen.


21 posted on 06/20/2012 5:31:22 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Red Steel
Yeah, she says it's in Houston. It's just amazing how such fools can be to vote her into office.
22 posted on 06/20/2012 5:38:21 PM PDT by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: Kaslin

Tell us, Sheila: Would that be a Moon Bush or a Martian Bush? Or just your plain old run-of-the-mill garden bush?


23 posted on 06/20/2012 5:40:54 PM PDT by workerbee (We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
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To: YHAOS

“Hey! Congresswoman Lee. Are you sure it wasn’t the fault of President Hoover?”

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Yeah, we take dat.

ANY white guy will do. We even dump ondat mofo Clinton if we need to.

Shownuff...


24 posted on 06/20/2012 5:45:40 PM PDT by EyeGuy (Armed, judgmental, fiscally responsible heterosexual.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“So they’re going to make EVERY issue racial from now on?!”

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Many of THEM, and their self-hating, cowardly white allies, have led with race for deacades now.


25 posted on 06/20/2012 5:47:37 PM PDT by EyeGuy (Armed, judgmental, fiscally responsible heterosexual.)
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To: Kaslin

OK, Sheila, let’s see the documents so we can indict and prosecute Chimpy McBushitler. You’re not against that are you? Hmmm?


26 posted on 06/20/2012 5:48:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: hoosiermama

There was a gunwalking operation going on under Bush but its a far cry from fast and furious.

Under Bush, Mexico knew of the operation and were cooperating. Under Bush, the guns weren’t allowed to walk across the border.

Fast and Furious was conducted without Mexican knowledge and the guns were deliberately allowed to cross the border for reasons that aren’t quite clear but aren’t good.

I’m no fan of these gunwalking type operations but Obama took it to a whole new low that I personally suspect was at least partially to be used as an attack on the second amendment. There is a lot more to it than just fast and furious. It appears that the same sort of thing has allowed in the USA and illegal guns to walk to places like Chicago and some shady deals were made with the mexican cartels.


27 posted on 06/20/2012 5:53:54 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Kaslin; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

In East or West Vietnam?


28 posted on 06/20/2012 5:54:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The media ignored the 40th anniversary of Bill Ayers' Pentagon bombing but not Watergate. Ask Why.)
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To: Kaslin
The Lee twins: Ugh and Home
29 posted on 06/20/2012 5:55:43 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: bgill

Who are the ATL?


30 posted on 06/20/2012 5:59:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The media ignored the 40th anniversary of Bill Ayers' Pentagon bombing but not Watergate. Ask Why.)
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To: Grams A
Embarrassment to Texas?

I don't think so.

We grow everything bigger in Texas, and we got the biggest dummy in the world with SJL.

Just try and match our dummy.

We be number one in dummies.

31 posted on 06/20/2012 6:00:07 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So they’re going to make EVERY issue racial from now on?!

BINGO.

Queen Shelia knows where her bread is buttered. She tried backing Hillary in 2008 and had 'The Community' come down hard on her.

32 posted on 06/20/2012 6:03:38 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The media ignored the 40th anniversary of Bill Ayers' Pentagon bombing but not Watergate. Ask Why.)
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To: Kaslin

If Bush’s program was so bad, Obama should have ended it. Instead he changed it and contributed to a lot of murders.


33 posted on 06/20/2012 6:05:24 PM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: bgill

Unlike you President Bush has class


34 posted on 06/20/2012 6:07:12 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: TigersEye

Executive privilege is being cited since Obama/Holder were involved in ways they originally denied to Congress. Obama lied, people died.


35 posted on 06/20/2012 6:09:01 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The media ignored the 40th anniversary of Bill Ayers' Pentagon bombing but not Watergate. Ask Why.)
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To: Kaslin

Bush is smart enough to know that inserting himself in this would be an unnecessary distraction.


36 posted on 06/20/2012 6:12:18 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Kaslin

Holder retracts claim Bush team knew about Fast and Furious
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2897486/posts

So Sheila, why did Holder retract his statement?


37 posted on 06/20/2012 6:13:59 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: bgill

Shiela Jackson Lee claims that Fast and Furious was started by G.W.Bush.

She’s the same Idiot that thinks the U.S. landed a man on Mars. Actually that wouldn’t be a bad place to put Obama,Holder and herself.


38 posted on 06/20/2012 6:19:52 PM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Kaslin

Grassley made the following comment on these developments.

“This is the second time in nearly seven months that the Department has gotten its facts wrong about gunwalking. Attorney General Holder accused Attorney General Mukasey, without producing any evidence, of having been briefed on gunwalking in Wide Receiver. The case Attorney General Mukasey was briefed on, Hernandez, is fundamentally different from both Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious since it involved cooperation with the Mexican government. Attorney General Holder’s retraction should have included an apology to the former Attorney General.

...

Mukasey should file a civil lawsuit against Holder for defamation and false testimony...


39 posted on 06/20/2012 6:22:05 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

BIG difference with a different intent!


Bush worked WITH the Mexican government....Obama solo.


40 posted on 06/20/2012 6:23:26 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t care who it started with. I know who it ended with and that man needs to be removed and jailed.

I mean Barrack Obama.

What possible difference can it make who it started with, No one was killed under Bush operation if there was one./

Bush isn’t the one witholding evidence.

Sheila Jackson Lee is your typical CBC member.
Their only object is to turn everything into a racial problem.
When is the Maxine Waters and Jesse Jackson Jr.ethics trial?


41 posted on 06/20/2012 6:26:15 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: cripplecreek

Exactly


42 posted on 06/20/2012 6:28:51 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
Bush TRACKED the weapons for the purpose of catching criminals. Obama DIDN'T TRACK the guns because the purpose was to escalate gun chaos in order to justify placing harsher restrictions on American firearms dealers (FFL's).

Also remember that Bush was working with the Mexican government, who consented, aided, and worked with the Bush era law enforcement. Something that's been hushed up is that Obama and Holder kept the Mexican government in the dark, never working with, or even informing the Mexican government. This leads me to believe that there was NEVER ANY intention of tracking or intercepting those firearms. Only allowing the Mexican law enforcement to unknowingly recover the weapons at crime scenes, never realizing that the guns had been smuggled into Mexico with the aid of the US government.

Mark

43 posted on 06/20/2012 6:31:42 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Kaslin
Sheila Jackass Lee...

She is as stupid, ignorant, and corrupt today as she was yessterday.

44 posted on 06/20/2012 6:34:53 PM PDT by Gritty (If any of the Western world is to survive, it has to find a way to turn around, to go back-Mk Steyn)
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To: cripplecreek; bgill; Kaslin

Did you see this?
Is this what they are hiding?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-57457277-10391695/ice-agents-family-files-wrongful-death-claim-against-doj/?tag=socsh


45 posted on 06/20/2012 6:35:03 PM PDT by hoosiermama ( Obama: " born in Kenya.".. he's lying now or then?)
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To: Kaslin

Its why the democrats are trying to draw Bush into it.


46 posted on 06/20/2012 6:39:48 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Kaslin

Oh, I get it! The Holder claim of Executive Privilege is so that Obama can protect Bush!


47 posted on 06/20/2012 6:51:45 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: IMR 4350
We grow everything bigger in Texas, and we got the biggest dummy in the world with SJL.

Well I have a hard time with your claim. You have a good contender there, but Californee has Maxine Waters who is right in there with the same attributes. Then there is the past and potentially future Georgia representative, Cynthia McKinney, who has to be given points just based on her photo below. Still, when you think about it, this is East Coast, Central and West Coast being equally 'gifted'!?!?

Rep. Maxine Waters

Former Rep. Cynthia McKinney

48 posted on 06/20/2012 7:20:34 PM PDT by SES1066 (Government is NOT the reason for my existence!)
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To: cripplecreek

Every thing is Bushes fault. This is so much fun. Love the picture on Drudge, Nixon ? Obama ? The whole pack of them are going right over the cliff on this one.
It will be Bushes fault when zer0 get His zebra , mulato ass put thru the uprights in November. More fun on the horizon.


49 posted on 06/20/2012 7:21:32 PM PDT by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: Kaslin

If it started under Bush, the Dim Rats were okay with it, right? Otherwise, where was the outrage back then? They would have either been informed, or it would have been leaked.


50 posted on 06/20/2012 7:38:33 PM PDT by FlyVet
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