Fast and Furious Goes Nuclear

FrontPage Magazine ^ | June 21, 2012 | Arnold Ahlert

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And the lamestream media will spin the vote (All pubbies for and all libtards against)as a meaningless partisan vote.

I've read that there may be a small but significant number of Democrats who intend to vote for the contempt motion.

That will be a problem for the president and his media sycophants.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Last night I saw a few minutes of Rachel Madcow on MSNBC. I thought her head was going to spin like the girl on the Exorcist. She was foaming at the mouth about the insanity of the “right wing conspiracy theory”..."

Issa ought to retain Ken Starr as the majority counsel. We would see a collective meltdown on such a scale that Fukushima would look like a fondue pot by comparison.

[onedoug]

If barry senses that he may not be reelected, I fear he may really go nuclear.

[Red in Blue PA]

The maximum punishment for Holder is a $1000 fine and a year in jail. That is the max!

[Red in Blue PA]

The maximum punishment for Holder is a $1000 fine and a year in jail. That is the max!

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“The maximum punishment for Holder is a $1000 fine and a year in jail.”

Be more specific...max penalty for what crime? That the max penalty for ordering/directing ‘Fast & Furious’, or for Contempt of Congress?

[GOPJ]

“Fishing expedition” is an incredibly callous assessment of an operation that claimed the life of Border Patrol Agent Brain Terry, more than 300 Mexican civilians, and possibly that of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jaime Zapata as well.

No one died in Watergate... not one person.

[archy]

I suspect that Holder will be found in contempt by the whole Congress

Just the ones who want to be reelected.

[archy]

No one died in Watergate... not one person.

"Upwards of twelve persons connected in one way or another with Watergate, boarded United Air Lines Flight 553 on the afternoon of December 8, 1972. They had something in common. That week there had been a gas pipeline lobbyists meeting as part of the American Bar Association meeting in Washngton, D.C. It was conducted by Roger Moreau. His secretary was Nancy Parker. Among those attending were Ralph Blodgett and James W. Krueger, both attorneys for the Northern Natural Gas Co., of Omaha, Nebraska. Associated with them were Lon Bayer, attorney for Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Co.; Wilbur Erickson, president, Federal Land Bank in Omaha. This was a belligerant group determined to blow the lid off the Watergate case. Reason Former U.S. Attorney General, John Mitchell, and his friends running the Justice Department were putting the spear into Northern Natural Gas. Some officials of that firm and its subsidiaries were indicted on federal criminal charges, September 7, 1972, in Omaha, Chicago, and Hammond, Indiana. Charge bribery of local officials in Northwest Indiana to let the gas pipeline go through. (Chicago Daily News, 9/8/72). To blackmail their way out of these charges, the Omaha firm had uncovered documents showing that Mitchell, while U.S. Attorney General in 1969, dropped anti-trust charges against a competitor of Northern Natural Gas---El Paso Gas Co. The dropping of the charges against El Paso was worth 300 million dollars. A spokesman for Mitchell belatedly claimed, in March, 1973, that Mitchell had "disqualified" himself in 1969, because Mitchell's law partner represented El Paso. The Justice Department under Mitchell, dropped the charges. Period. About the same time, Mitchell, through a law partner as nominee, got a stock interest in El Paso. Gas and oil interests, such as El Paso, Gulf Resources, and others contributed heavily to Nixon's spy fund, supervised by Mitchell." . ... .

"Dorothy Hunt, Watergate pay-off woman, who offered executive clemency directly on behalf of Nixon to some of the Watergate defendants, was seeking to leave the U.S. with over 2 million Dollars in cash and negotiables that she had gotten from CREEP, Committee to Re-Elect the President. [She was so concerned about these valuables, she purchased a separate first class seat next to her on the plane for this luggage.] She and her husband, E. Howard Hunt, the Watergate conspirator, were a "C.I.A. couple", two agents "married" and living together. Early in December, 1972,both were threatening to blow the lid off the White House if (a) he wasn't freed of the criminal charges; (b) Nixon didn't pay heavy to suppress the documents they had showing he was implicated in the planning and carrying out, by the FBI and the CIA, of the political murder of President Kennedy; and (c) Dorothy and Howard Hunt didn't both get several million dollars. Some of these details are in the Memo of Watergate double-agent, James McCord, a CIA official in charge of the Agency's physical security; details before the Senator Ervin Committee. (N.Y. Times, 5/9/73.) Hunt claimed, according to McCord, to have the data necessary to impeach Nixon. McCord said matters were coming to a head early in December, 1972. Mrs. Hunt was unhappy with her job of going all over the country to bribe defendants and witnesses in the bugging case. She wanted out."

THE WATERGATE PLANE CRASH

United Airlines Flight 553, Wikipedia entry

[archy]

The maximum punishment for Holder is a $1000 fine and a year in jail. That is the max!

United States Code, Title 18, U.S. Criminal Code
USC §ection 241 - Conspiracy against rights

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

[archy]

There were a ton of links in here, but I undersrtand there is damning documentation that shows F&F was re-purposed by a fairly legitimate gun tracing plan by the Bush administration (Operation Wide Receiver) into an anti-2nd amendment ploy by the Soetoro administration. They were going to “prove” that the gun-running into Mexico would be the cover story to clamp down on legitimate gun sales. Is that information out there?

29 March, 2012 *here*

23 March 2010 "here"

[archy]

She was foaming at the mouth about the insanity of the “right wing conspiracy theory” tying the “botched gun sting” to an attack on the 2nd Amd.

If she was correct and an anti-Second Amendment activity wasn't at the root of Fast and Furious, it would mean that Holder, Obama et al supplied guns to the cartels for other reasons, most logically payoffs in drugs and money [in the form of campaign contributions] since that is the currency in which the cartels traffic and the MO of their political buyoff operations.

MADDOW CLAIMS DRUG MONEY FUELS OBAMA CAMPAIGN. You heard it from her yourself!