Posted on 04/18/2012 8:30:07 AM PDT by yoe
Of all the myriad scandals of the Obama administration, there is one, largely ignored by the mainstream media, that could actually be its worst.
That scandal is the operation run from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, under the Justice Department, known as “Fast and Furious,” through which the federal government actually encouraged and even ordered American gun shops to sell guns — against the store owners’ better judgment — to “straw” purchasers who were funneling guns to Mexican drug gangs while the ATF sat back and watched and did nothing.
(Excerpt) Read more at cowboybyte.com ...
The sooner the better, ol pal!
From American Thinker: ...But should Cynthia Schnedar be the person to conduct the investigation?
It turns out that Ms. Schnedar has long and close ties to Mr. Holder. According to her biography on the Justice Department website, she became assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. in 1994. Eric Holder had become the U.S. attorney in Washington the previous year, so he in effect was Schnedar's boss from 1994 until 1997, when he left to become President Clinton's deputy attorney general. Holder would become a key player in the scandalous pardons of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich and members of the Puerto Rican nationalist terrorist group known as FALN.
But during Ms. Schnedar's tenure before Holder had departed, it happened that they had ended up working a number of cases together. According to the LexisNexis website, there were at least fourteen of them, usually at the appellate level. For Holder, it was more than just "in name only"; in some of those cases, they apparently co-filed legal briefs.
In one case, they had represented the ATF. In another, they represented both the ATF and DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), an agency that has now also been linked to Fast and Furious.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/fast_and_furious_in_a_rotten_nutshell.html#ixzz1sQA66l8g
Schnadar was replaced this past month by Michael Horowitz of the Cadwalader Wickersham law firm (which many top DOJ people in the Fast and Furious saga have a connection with and which, in it's largest pro bono project ever, defended the terrorists in Guantanamo).
bttt
How can it be the worst scandal when the media ignores it. According to the media, this is the first scandal free administration in history.
How about stealing from the US treasury for all the Obama family trips?
How can it be the worst scandal when the media ignores it. According to the media, this is the first scandal free administration in history.
Why, anything that can be measured in mere millions is just 'walking around money', and um....er.....uh.... sharing! YES! That's it! SHARING! Sharing is caring, and all that....
It's always easier to be generous with other people's money. But Margaret Thatcher had a point, and the checkbook is overdrawn.
Period.
Thanks for the ping!
“By the end of the year....every American will know who Sheriff Joe is.”
Yes, the lying POS media will expose him as the “racist nut” who passed away.
At his age, they won’t even have to go to the trouble of creating a Vince Foster/Ron Brown Arkancide scenario.
I hope he lives to 120, but the voting sheeple are too stupid to not let the media destroy his credibility with lies.
Crisis By Design — Video Speaks for Itself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ccrjnHAA34&feature=related
Above the Law . . . And corrupt as hell
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