Posted on 01/26/2015 5:54:36 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
Late last week reporter Tim Steller of the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson published a piece about alleged serious misconduct and intimidation from DOJ attorneys during the trial and lawsuit of former ATF agent and whistleblower Jay Dobyns against the government.
One of the recently unsealed documents, a Dec. 1 opinion by Judge Allegra, finally explains why in October the judge voided his original decision, made in August, to award Dobyns $173,000. (He later reversed his decision to void the judgment, which still stands.) The reason: The judge believed that Justice Department attorneys had “committed fraud on the court.”
One area in which Allegra decided deception had occurred was in the treatment of Thomas Atteberry, the special agent in charge of ATF’s Phoenix office, and Carlos Canino, then the assistant special agent in charge of the agency’s Tucson office. In 2012, a Justice Department attorney, Valerie Bacon, asked both Atteberry and Canino not to reopen the investigation into the arson at Dobyns’ Tucson home because it could hurt the Justice Department’s defense in this case.
Atteberry and Canino were listed as witnesses in the case, but the judge didn’t hear about the DOJ effort to squelch the investigation until the trial, which he considered a concealment by the Justice Department. They went ahead and reopened the case, which remains unsolved, anyway.
More alarming was the other “fraud on the court” that Allegra cited: “An ATF agent who testified in this case may have been threatened by another witness during the trial.” Justice Department attorneys ordered the agent not to report the threat to the court or he would face repercussions, Allegra said.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
I would think this sort of thing might warrant examination by a Senate committee.
You are exactly right. And author Katie Pavlich agrees with you ....
The House Oversight Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committees both have new chairmen, Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Sen. Chuck Grassley, who should both be looking into this is and demanding answers, especially with confirmation hearings for attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch later this week.
Any day I learn that Katie and are on the same page is a good day.
Thanks Servant of the Cross.
While Eric Holder’s Justice Department is the one lying to the Court in this case, the fact is the problems begin during the Bush administration. This guy’s house was burned to the ground in 2008, his break with the ATF happened well before we knew who Eric Holder was. The problems associated with the ATF, and to a lesser extent with the DOJ, are systemic.
Was it the Tucson or Phoenix ATF office that F&F was run out of? It seems the ATF has credibility issues no matter what it touches. Its long past time to shut it down.
RICO anyone?
5.56mm
Jarrett , Obama, and Holder all need to be prosecuted as soon as they leave office.
They have committed crimes
“A regiment that is shaken in its discipline will readily concede to accidental leaders of the moment powers of an extent and a kind which the legitimate command could never acquire, and which IF legitimate, would be utterly intolerable.” O. Spengler
This is not a reason to not investigate, is it?
Follow the truth is all I ask.
Mr. Dobyns’ house was burned down in 2004, after the ATF effectively “outed” him to the Hell’s Angels by publishing his home address.
That’s not to say Eic Holder does not belong in prison, nor does it imply that Holder’s DOJ did not continue its ineptitude and injustices related to the case, but this fiasco started while John Ashcroft was AG.
OOPS!! Should have been 2008, while Gonzalez was AG.
His cover was blown in 2004 while he was working the HA.
Thank you for your adherence to the rules!
How could peeps who work for Eric H0lder, Federal Dick, be involved in unethical behavior?
Most definitely.
Personally, I think a case can be made for imprisoning the last 5 Attorneys General, based solely on the behavior of the BATF[E}. Maybe more.
I assume the lying and coverup came after that, right?
...his break with the ATF happened well before we knew who Eric Holder was.
Maybe before you ever heard of witHolder, but a lot of "we" have known about that skunk since at least Waco and the Butch Reno sagas.
Crap! I’m wrong again.
I forgot about Michael Mukasey.
PING!
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