Back Filling?

Holder's Mustache

Flashback: Remember When Democrats Helped Cover Up Obama’s Fast and Furious Gunrunning Scheme? Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are officially trying to cover for Attorney General Eric Holder just before he testifies on Thursday about Operation Fast and Furious, with anti-Second Amendment Ranking Member Elijah Cummings leading the way. As the House Democrats extend their temper tantrum into a fundraiser, it’s worth pointing out their rank hypocrisy when it comes to guns. A few important points: First, Deputy Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny Breuer (the number two man in DOJ), approved wiretaps for Operation Fast and Furious. Wiretap applications require excruciating detail about a case to be presented before approval. Wiretaps are considered the most intrusive tool law enforcement can use. Breuer, who read through the wiretap applications, knew details of the strategy used in Fast and Furious, letting guns walk into Mexico without alerting If Wilkinson’s “I don’t recall,” argument sounds familiar, there’s a reason why. On May 3, 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder testifed before the House Judicary Committee that he had only known about Fast and Furious, “for a couple of weeks.” Mexican authorities, yet he approved it anyway. New emails released last Friday in a late night document dump, show Attorney General Eric Holder was briefed about Brian Terry’s death just hours after he was murdered in the early morning hours on December 15, 2010. Later in the day, Holder’s deputy chief of staff at the time Monty Wilkinson, was told directly by former Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke that the guns found at the murder scene were part of Operation Fast and Furious. According to the report, Wilkinson doesn’t “recall” that email, despite replying to it with, “Call you tomorrow.” Burke, who resigned from his position as U.S. Attorney in August, was in “complete agreement” with former ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Division Bill Newell about Fast and Furious tactics according to a January 8, 2010 briefing memo. If Wilkinson’s “I don’t recall,” argument sounds familiar, there’s a reason why. On May 3, 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder testifed before the House Judicary Committee that he had only known about Fast and Furious, “for a couple of weeks.” Five months later, memos addressed directly to Holder surfaced, with details and discussion about the program. In defense, Holder said he didn’t read the memos and that his staff didn’t inform him of their content. Second, the report claims Fast and Furious was not used as a way for the Obama administration to push through back door gun control measures. “The report debunks many unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. Contrary to repeated claims by some, the Committee has obtained no evidence that Operation Fast and Furious was a politically-motivated operation conceived and directed by high-level Obama Administration political appointees at the Department of Justice,” Cummings wrote in the report. [Full Deck] AHEM "Second, the report claims Fast and Furious was not used as a way for the Obama administration to push through back door gun control measures." Documents: ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make the case for gun regulations Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation "Fast and Furious" to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales .CBS NEWS, December 7, 2011 While we're happy that House Republicans still have tenacity enough to pursue this scandal  criminal action by the Obamas; that certain of the investigators are intent on snipping ties to the gun control motive—the ONLY plausible reason for  the exercise in the first place—is troubling.  And guess what?  Like him or not, Donald Trump is the only hope we have of putting this lot on the dock.

Mass Killings

Tails of the Gun   The Mass Killings Leftists Won't Talk About* (Patriot Post)

Every time an armed sociopath goes on a murderous rampage, leftists — before any facts are even known — quickly and collectively demand additional gun control measures. But in cities like Chicago, hundreds of lives are taken every year, mostly by gang members, though the majority of Americans generally won't find news of their deaths floating across their television screens. The reason has to do with the circumstances. The same deafening response to issues like urban violence will be repeated regarding the scores of people we now know have been murdered through Barack Obama's Fast and Furious gun control scheme. According to Judicial Watch, "Justice Department documents [reveal] that weapons sent from the U.S. into Mexico as part of the Obama administration's Operation Fast and Furious gunrunning program have been widely used by major Mexican drug cartels. According to the new records, over the past three years, a total of 94 Fast and Furious firearms have been recovered in Mexico City and 12 Mexican states, with the majority being seized in Sonora, Chihuahua and Sinaloa. Of the weapons recovered, 82 were rifles and 12 were pistols identified as having been part of the Fast and Furious program. Reports suggest the Fast and Furious guns are tied to at least 69 killings." All lives matter. Sadly, the media believes mass killings are worth covering only when the circumstances surrounding their deaths fit the narrative. That narrative doesn't include a government-sanctioned program that resulted in dozens of murders. Bonus: Making the Military Fabulous * Not my title.  Hell, the Left don't acknowledge anything that's contrary to "the mission."  I'd call it "Wanted:  Brock Obama and Eric Holder for voluntary manslaughter."

Donald Trump Promise

Donald Trump Promise: Answers on Fast and Furious

This is not only newsworthy, it could prove explosive. It could provide the necessary authority to break the logjam and allow the complete truth about Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking” to come to light. It’s not unfair to speculate that could put the fear of God into some of those who have tried their best to keep the truth buried, and would up the stakes for involved Democrats to keep Trump from getting elected. It would also be tremendously beneficial to his campaign, and to rallying Americans sick of the cover-up and demanding of justice. But only if that pledge is publicly acknowledged. Opening up State and DOJ to see what secrets remain intentionally hidden (like why Eric Holder testified in May 2011 that he’d only heard about Fast and Furious a few week earlier when Obama said he knew about things in March, and why emails to Holder’s aide show he was informed of the Terry murder the night it happened — not to mention Sharyl Attkisson’s initial CBS News report was in February!) is an action only a strong and independent executive can order. Interested Americans have long grown weary of the stonewalling and obfuscation, the obstruction and the contempt, none of which ever seems to produce results beyond noise. [Full Ammo-Land] All facts point to Fast and Furious being a contrivance by the Obama-Holder Justice Department to run a firearms trafficking operation that would, when linked to crimes, bolster government attempts to stop U.S.  gun sales  across the board.  It backfired.  In my wildest dreams I see this, and every thing else—from phony birth certificates to ad hoc violations of immigration  law—and 100 other things unlawfully perped by this administration, on court dockets. And let me be perfectly clear, Donald Trump is the last best chance in your life time to see justice served.

Valerie Jarrett Helped Manager Eric Holder's Perjury

Holder's Mustache

“ Bombshell: Valerie Jarrett Helped Manage Fallout Over Eric Holder's Changing Fast and Furious Testimony to Congress [...] Practically lost in the 1,000-plus pages of records is an index that shows Jarrett was brought in to manage the fact that Holder lied to Congress after the story about the disastrous gun-running operation broke in the media. The files received by JW include three electronic mails between Holder and Jarrett and one from former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke to Jarrett. The e-mails with Holder are all from October 4, 2011, a significant date because, on the evening of October 3rd, Sharyl Attkisson (then at CBS news) released documents showing that Holder had been sent a briefing paper on Operation Fast and Furious on June 5, 2010. The paper was from the director of the National Drug Intelligence Center, Michael Walther. This directly contradicted Holder’s May 3, 2011 testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, during which he stated that he, “probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.” The October 4, 2011 date may also be significant because it came shortly after the August 30, 2011 resignation of U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke and reassignment of acting ATF director Kenneth Melson to the position of “senior forensics advisor” at DOJ. The description of one of the e-mails, written from Jarrett to Holder, reads, “re: personnel issues.” Another, also from Jarrett, reads, “outlining and discussing preferred course of action for future responses in light of recent development in congressional investigation.” Unfortunately, the index is vague and that’s all the information we have about them. Nevertheless, given the timing and subject of these e-mails, it seems clear that Jarrett quickly became a key player in the Fast and Furious cover-up in the immediate aftermath of the revelation that Holder had lied to Congress. Despite evidence showing Attorney General Eric Holder lied about when he became aware of Operation Fast and Furious and about the extent of his involvement with the initiation of the program, he has maintained that the testimony he gave under oath to Congress was "truthful and accurate." As a reminder of the timeline of Holder's inconsistent testimony: [Oh, there's more ...] A Reminder: On February 21, 1975, (Nixon's A.G) John Mitchell was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison for his role in the Watergate break-in and cover-up ... ”

Raw, obscene sycophancy by a media stooge.

Eric Holder, All American

NBC News’ Chuck Todd tipped his hat Thursday to outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, praising President Obama’s top law enforcer for being a “very non-political person.” “He did a lot of the tough stuff that you would say, ‘Hey, the attorney general has to do tough stuff, this is not a forgiving job, you have to do tough stuff,’” the new host of “Meet the Press” said. “But, what’s interesting about him, he is a very non-political person. And I think people used to mistakenly think that this guy was this long-time political operative who happened to be an attorney general. That’s not him at all,” he added. [Full Dirty Diaper] This has to rival Dan Rather's "If we could be one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been in the White House, we’d take it right now and walk away winners..." for Best Raw, Obscene Sycophancy by a Media Stooge. Getting back to the planet Earth—Why did Eric the Red decide to resign now?  “I do not find it a coincidence that Eric Holder chose now to resign after Judge Bates denied the request from the DOJ to delay the release of the Fast and Furious documents,” she said. “I personally think Eric Holder was really hoping that the documents would never be made public ...  hopefully the people involved are brought to justice. Eric Holder can run, but there will be no hiding.” - Kelly Terry-Willis  A federal judge has concluded that enough is enough, and the Department of Justice must respond properly to a federal Freedom of Information Act case brought over its handling of the Fast and Furious scandal. U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates ruled Wednesday that by Oct. 22, the DOJ must submit a “Vaughn index” listing Fast and Furious materials Judicial Watch sought in its June 2012 Freedom of Information Act request and a subsequent September 2012 FOIA lawsuit. [Full]

Plumbers

“ *Hillary's "Plumbers" Career State Department staffer accuses Hillary Clinton’s staff of sanitizing Benghazi records. *Wasn’t that what Richard Nixon called them? This comes perilously close to being ‘too bad to be true’ territory. Meet Ray Maxwell, former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the State Department – and one of the people fingered, then cleared, of wrongdoing in the Benghazi ambassador disaster.  (He since has retired, having served for over two decades. And also, yeah, the entire ‘pariah’ thing.) Mr. Maxwell is now testifying that Hillary Clinton loyalists organized a band of plumbers* to sanitize the relevant files between said disaster, and the inevitable investigation: When he arrived, Maxwell says he observed boxes and stacks of documents. He says a State Department office director, whom Maxwell described as close to Clinton’s top advisers, was there. Though the office director technically worked for him, Maxwell says he wasn’t consulted about her weekend assignment. “She told me, ‘Ray, we are to go through these stacks and pull out anything that might put anybody in the [Near Eastern Affairs] front office or the seventh floor in a bad light,’” says Maxwell. He says “seventh floor” was State Department shorthand for then-Secretary of State Clinton and her principal advisors. “I asked her, ‘But isn’t that unethical?’ She responded, ‘Ray, those are our orders.’ ” Full Monstrosity Here's the thing about all this.  There's been voluminous proof already presented—that's been made public!— of this Obama-Clinton Benghazi cover-up.  Same with the investigation into the Obama-Holder Operation Fast and Furious; yet  nothing gets done.  We all know why. e.g. Judge splits difference in Holder contempt suit Obama appointed Judge Amy Berman Jackson's ruling has the practical effect of putting Rep. Darrel Issa's investigation into Holder on ice (again).  Majority of Federal Appeals Court Judges Appointed by Democratic Presidents for First Time in more than 10 Years Iowa CBS Affiliate Runs Free Ad for Bruce Braley You sort of expect liberal media bias at the national level but this astounding segment from a local CBS affiliate out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa ought to count as a donation in kind to Democrat Bruce Braley. Under the guise of “reporting news,” watch as this segment gives the uninterrupted stage to Braley and his surrogates ... That last is symbolic of how the media have openly supported Democrats since Saturday Night Live's Chevy Chase made President Gerald Ford a bumbling laughing stock, in 1976;  and continuing into  the butchering of Sarah Palin in 2008.  My accountant has guesstimated that Brock received 54.6 trillion dollars of in-kind political donations from the media in 2008, and again in 2012.  ”

Ruh-Roh

Bingo

Federal Court Orders Obama Administration to Release Fast and Furious Information

Fast & Furious Kills Again

AND THE IRONY IS .... “   A Fast and Furious gun found at the murder scene of Mexican beauty queen Maria Susana Flores, appears to have been purchased by embattled ATF supervisor George Gillett. Flores was used as a human shield before she was shot and killed by Mexican cartels during a shootout with the Mexican military. According to documents obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley, it appears Gillett purchased a number of different firearms at a gun dealership in Phoenix as part of Operation Fast...  [Full] The irony that is Obama's  Fast & Furious malfeasance, versus Obama's move to ban semiautomatic hunting rifles—citing as justification a crime that did not involve any— is simply too too. "NON STICK" pic via Sr. Mary Merrily ”

Prelude

Oh My

Fast & Furriest

FAST & FURRIEST

In contempt of congress - what do it mean?

Obama grants 11th-hour Holder executive privilege request The question on everyone's lips is — so what does it mean if he's found in contemptby vote of the full House?  Predictably the law is difficult for the layman to understand.  For instance (from Wikipedia) “ .Under this process, the procedure for holding a person in contempt involves only the chamber concerned. Following a contempt citation, the person cited is arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms for the House or Senate, brought to the floor of the chamber, held to answer charges by the presiding officer, and then subjected to punishment as the chamber may dictate (usually imprisonment for punishment reasons, imprisonment for coercive effect, or release from the contempt citation). ” But then, under "Statutory Proceedings," and after this Wikipedia citation — This article contains weasel words: vague phrasing that often accompanies biased or unverifiable information. Such statements should be clarified or removed. (July 2008) we read: “ .Following a contempt citation, the presiding officer of the chamber is instructed to refer the matter to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia;[9] according to the law it is the "duty" of the U.S. Attorney to refer the matter to a grand jury for action. ” We have one instance of an Attorney General of the United States being held in contempt. Person Subcommittee/Committee Ultimate Disposition Janet Reno (Democrat), Attorney General 6 August 1998, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Documents in question were revealed during the impeachment of President Clinton. That would be a satisfactory outcome here, although I won't hold my breath. In the final analysis, Holder's and Obama's culpability in this effort (F&F) to stage events as a precursor to imposing gun control on us,  is manifestly unmistakable.

This time I'm really really mad!

—   you quacking berk    “ So it's Katie Bar The Door! Right? GOP Rep. Darrell Issa said his face-to-face meeting Tuesday with Attorney General Eric Holder failed to produce the documents requested for the congressional investigation into the Justice Department’s botched Fast and Furious gun walking operation and suggested he needs them by Wednesday morning to stop a scheduled vote to put Holder in contempt of Congress. The Capitol Hill meeting was called for late Monday night by Holder. Well that's it for you Holder!  If you don't bring this documents in tom- what?  WTF!?! Issa told reporters after the roughly 20-minute meeting that Holder instead briefed them on the documents in lieu of delivering them and suggested he might delay the contempt vote, called for because the department has not responded to subpoena requests for the additional information. “The deadline will always move to the last minute,” said Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. “We're not looking to hold people responsible. We're looking for document production.” [Full] We'll cite you for contempt if you don't produce the files.  That is of course unless you don't present the files, then we'll start over.. You're quacking like a duck Mr, Issa ... ”

Holder's new perjury

"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what  the hell." TRKOF&S LIARS Eric Holder Full Story "Operation Fast and Furious was carried out by the ATF.  It began in the fall of 2009 and continued into early 2011, during which time the federal government purposefully allowed known or suspected gun smugglers to purchase guns at federally licensed firearms dealers in Arizona. The government did not seek to abort these gun purchases, intercept the smugglers after the purchases, or recover the guns they had purchased." Why? So guns used by Mexican criminals could be traced back to the United States, thus giving the Obamas reason to impose firearm restrictionson us.  That's how evil they are.  I only hope that Holder is impeached before Obama's presidency ends in 2013, so we can enjoy the spectacle of a Democrat senate trying to avoid convicting him.  My schenfreudal sense demands that Holder, and wistfully,  Obama going to prison.

A Bad Boner in the Making?

Holder tries to cut Fast and Furious deal with Boner “ The Department of Justice told Republican House leadership in a Tuesday letter that it hopes to reach an agreement with congressional overseers on how much information about Operation Fast and Furious it is required to hand over. Congressional Republicans have threatened to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for not fully complying with a 22-part subpoena served last October. The letter comes amid reports that House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa has obtained evidence proving that senior Justice Department officials approved Operation Fast and Furious gunwalking tactics. The Justice Department letter was in response to a request Speaker of the House John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy and Issa sent in mid-May. “Following the receipt of your letter, the department has had a number of constructive conversations with staff aimed at satisfying the legitimate goals of congressional oversight while, at the same time, ensuring the integrity and independence of the department’s law enforcement efforts,” Deputy Attorney General James Cole wrote to those congressional leaders on Tuesday afternoon. Holder and the DOJ, he added, think the GOP leadership’s May 18 letter “was a helpful step toward reaching a resolution of the issues in dispute.” Reminds me of when the Marines were ordered to negotiate with Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr when they had him on the ropes in Fallujah .  Then had to go back and do it again.  If the French are surrender monkeys, and they are, the the GOP are Bozo the Clown. ”

Is Boner this stooopid?

"We have met the enemy and it is the GOP" Republican leaders have already decided to close down the Fast and Furious investigation ... “ ... according to the man who broke the “Gunwalker” story a year and a half ago,  Sources in Washington, DC have told him (blogger and citizen reporter Mike Vanderboegh) that Republican leaders have already decided to close down the Fast and Furious investigation and halt contempt proceedings against Eric Holder, because “they (the GOP leadership) don’t think that they will suffer for [that] failure to follow through. They’re scared of Holder’s race card. . . they’re scared of Trayvon. They think if they let Issa fail, that it will only be a story in the blogosphere for a day . . . that they can weather it. . . .” Unfortunately, Vanderboegh makes it clear that he trusts the word of these sources “implicitly.” [Western Center for Journalism] I am not going to believe it.  Not until I hear it from a reliable source.  Not even John Boner, and he is a poseur on a level with Obama,  not even he could be that brazen, and that stupid.  If it is true,  the fallout could ignite a TeaParty jungle clearing mob response (good), or douse all fervor for the upcoming election.  UPDATE - Now there's this: Walmart Caves to Van Jones, Drops ALEC Support ”

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