Issa, Grassley release details about Fast and Furious whistleblower retaliation, cover-up

Daily Caller ^ | 6/29/12 | Matthew Boyle

[Nachum]

House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa and Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley are asking the Department of Justice’s internal investigator to hold accountable anyone who retaliated against or threatened to retaliate against Operation Fast and Furious whistleblowers.

In a Friday letter to the DOJ’s Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Grassley and Issa said they’re now concerned retaliation is much more likely following Thursday’s votes to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal and civil contempt of Congress.

“We just learned that ATF senior management placed two of the main whistleblowers who have testified before Congress about Fast and Furious under the supervision of someone who vowed to retaliate against them,” they wrote before describing how senior political figures have made dangerous threats before.

Grassley and Issa said that in early 2011, right around the time Grassley first made public the whistleblowers’ allegations about Fast and Furious, Scot Thomasson – then the chief of the ATF’s Public Affairs Division – said, according to an eyewitness account: “We need to get whatever dirt we can on these guys [the whistleblowers] and take them down.”

[Nachum]

A Friday Newsdump in reverse? The Obamatrons can't hit back during the regular news cycle.

Interesting strategy. Wonder if it will work.

[Nachum]

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[BillyBonebrake]

Wow. The same d-heads calling this a fishing expedition are handcuffed to their chum buckets!

[elpadre]

“..We need to get whatever dirt we can on these guys [the whistleblowers] and take them down.”

Two can play that game. Issa or Grassley only need to put the word out to ATF agents and local sheriff's departments that they want “to get whatever dirt we can on them,” and I suspect they will get enough to fire the whole bunch of DOJ, and ATF political hacks, in a heartbeat.

[eeriegeno]

Uh folks, Issa and Grassley will accomplish nothing with this endeavor. This is politics as usual for the DC crowd. If Holder was a ball player, his contempt of Congress would mean something and there WOULD be consequences. But since Holder is a politician, note that I didnt say that he is a civil servant, absolutely nothing will happen to him or Mr Obama who is protecting him. Business as usual in DC....

[zerosix]

Don't be so quick to make that assumption for those who tried blowing the whistle on the Clinton's had all manner of "events" transpire in their attempt to out the dirty deeds that went on.

You have no idea what the most powerful man on earth can do with all of the vast resources at their command.

Anyone that can order air strikes on a country just to take the heat that results from a simple newspaper story. The President can order thousands of FBI files to be brought to the Oval Office to be scoured, copied and used one at a time, for instance, say leak a story about an elected official fathering a child out of wedlock, etc.

The office of the Presidency of the U.S. has more "tools" at their disposal and ruin reputations, marriages, careers and people one thought of as friends, vanish overnight to keep the heat off of them.

Don't believe me, check on Gary Aldrich, former FBI agent that dared cross the Clinton's, Bob Livingston, former House of Representatives member from LA who was picked to be Speaker of the House, then there is Dan Burton, House member from Indiana, all that came in line to. E destroyed by the Clinton White House.

[elpadre]

true I recall all

perhaps in these days and times the good guys can get usable information exposed by use of blogs, tweets and the like, which give a bit of anonymity to hide behind.

[elpadre]

it is better to something than nothing.

silence connotes concurrence

[redgolum]

A very thin protection. It doesn’t take long to track someone posting on the internet down.

[Gene Eric]

>> The same d-heads calling this a fishing expedition

A depraved lot of jackwagons. Those frauds don’t give a damn about lawlessness, nor the murder of the agents. And neither do their #ing constituents give a rat’s ass.

[Chode]

didn't they already send one of them out of the country???

[zerosix]

We can always hope and pray for a different outcome this time.

[SaraJohnson]

Congress Republicans should hire these agents and then they can go back once Obama is out of power. It’s only two men and Congress does not have the power to protect them within the Just Us Department.

[potlatch]

KEEP ON RUNNING ERIC!

[bitt]

Darrell Issa Puts Details of Secret Wiretap Applications in Congressional Record

http://www.rollcall.com/news/darrell_issa_puts_details_of_secret_wiretap_applications_in_congressional-215828-1.html

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"It doesn’t take long to track someone posting on the internet down."

The Internet, down? When the heck did this happen, and why wasn't I informed?!
;)

[Erasmus]

What? You didn’t back it up? Shame on you.

Fortunately, I got a printout of it just in time.

[MestaMachine]

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"Fortunately, I got a printout of it just in time."

And I took a screenshot. We're good. Internet scrubbing b@stards.