Fast and Furious and OCDETF [in depth account of DOJ procedures]

National Review Online ^ | 6-23-12 | Andrew McCarthy

[VikingMom]

In depth article from Andrew McCarthy explaining the impossibility of DOJ being unaware of the Fast & Furious operation. After reading this, there is no way that Obama or Holder can deny that they knew every aspect of this case, from the very beginning.

[VikingMom]

This is a must read article going into how far up the chain of command the Fast & Furious Operation originated. I apologize if I've posted this incorrectly. I have never started a thread before but this is absolutely vital information and I didn't see it posted anywhere yet.

[InterceptPoint]

Potential Money Quote from the article:

"The One is in it for The One. The president invoked executive privilege because he is protecting himself."

[Steely Tom]

I don't need an "in depth article" to know that authorization for F&F came from the White House.

If F&F had oroginated at a lower level, the responsible party would already have been thrown under the bus.

[Gaffer]

No matter what logic, truth, whistleblowing or proof is unearthed, Obama and Holder, BOTH initmately complicit will stonewall, hide behind Executive Privilege just like Clinton or stand in front of a bunch of blacks, latinos, and liberals and joke like a pimp on Saturday night roundin’ up his B!tches while mumbling some incomprehensible claptrap about “Watergate.”

We won’t get these two until they are THROWN out of office in November. If you want an answer, give THEM one in November. Holder, might then be indicted and serve some jail time. Obama as the immaculate black pResident, won’t serve a minute, but the truth may become known - just like all blacks actually know about OJ..

[Thank You Rush]

Thanks loads - I have been looking at F&F all morning - between laundry loads, folding clothes etc. I cannot for the life of me understand why the RIGHT questions aren’t being asked and why no one, on at least cable news, bothers to point out the differences between F&F and Wide Receiver.

I had to go back all the way to a video of Senator Cornyn in December 2011 asking Holder if he knew the difference. In addition to his obfuscation, he said he had NEVER tried to EQUATE the two (BIG, BIG LIE!) and people were just misinformed with the inaccuracies in the DOJ letter of February 2011.

According to Holder, no one LIED, they were just inaccurate! Don’t we all remember - BUSH LIED - when he was working from intelligence information about WMD in Iraq?

How do they keep having it both ways?

[AuntB]

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[Carry_Okie]

I just don't buy it. Yes, the administration of the program had to involve Main Justice, no doubt, but I don't see a program that forced illegal sales and then never made any effort to track the weapons originating in the Phoenix ATF. No way.

The tactics of F&F demonstrate that its goals were political, not crime-fighting. That means it came from the White House. With Holder's prior experience in the OCDETF, he had to know the people in Arizona to whom he would go to make this happen with a few carefully placed phone calls. With as fast as this came "up the chain" within DOJ, the wheels had to be greased in advance.

[MestaMachine]

[Tex-Con-Man]

It's always nice to add the voice of someone who's intimately involved with the process. Enlightening article. Holder's f'd.

[bcsco]

Bump

[aposiopetic]

Thanks for posting this. For me it is quite informative. For the Administration it should be troubling.

[neverdem]

I apologize if I've posted this incorrectly. I have never started a thread before but this is absolutely vital information and I didn't see it posted anywhere yet.

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