At last Friday's daily presidential presser, White House spokesman Jay Carney called the GOP investigation into Fast and Furious and the death of Brian Terry a "politically motivated, taxpayer funded, election year fishing expedition."
That statement is pure spin and, quite frankly, a pure lie. The investigation into Terry's death has been ongoing for over a year. It was Eric Holder's foot dragging and the refusal to release all the Department of Justice's documents regarding the investigation that has pushed it into this year; an election year.
And, let's not forget another Carney lie. The one that said Fast and Furious started in the Bush Administration and Holder ended it. If that was true, Obama and Holder would be scrambling all over themselves to give the national press those documents. After all, Obama has literally made it his career to blame Bush for almost anything. The fact is that the Bush Justice Department did have a gun walking program and, unlike Fast and Furious, it did track 400 guns that were walked over the border. That 2006-2007 program, called Wide Receiver, failed to bring any convictions and, as a result, it was considered to be a failure and was ended in 2007. That was a long before Holder ever got into office and even a longer time before Brian Terry was killed in 2010.
If anyone is "playing" politics, it is Holder and the President by asserting Executive Privilege to prevent any possible damaging facts from coming out before the election. To me and a lot of people, the assertion of Executive Privilege, at this late hour, just screams cover-up.
Showing posts with label fast and furious. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fast and furious. Show all posts
Monday, June 25, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Obama's Invocation Of Executive Privelege: Why Now? Why Not A Year Ago?
Since January of last year, a Republican lead Congressional Committee has conducted an investigation into the Department of Justice's gun-running program -- operationally called "Fast and Furious". As part of the "Fast and Furious" program, guns were purchased in this country and intentionally handed over to Mexican Drug Cartel members; resulting, not only in the deaths of many Mexican citizens, but, also, in the death of a U.S. Border Agent.
All along, Eric Holder and his Justice Department members have blocked the investigation from going forward. From the very beginning, there have been nothing but lies; starting with the first lie that the program was some kind of "rouge" program that had been conducted by local people without approvals from above. But, now we know that the program was pushed from very high levels within the Justice Department; with a scapegoated Assistant U.S. Attorney General being forced to step down over his involvement in the program. Beyond that, the Attorney General, himself, Eric Holder, has also been caught lying; with his lies being easily exposed by documents and emails. So, it's no wonder that the Republicans smell a rat. And, just maybe, the tail of that rat can be followed all the way to the White House.
Through the entire investigation, only about 5% of the thousands of "Furious" documents have been handed over to Congress; and, Holder has stonewalled on the access to any further documents for months. The investigation finally came to a head when the Republicans threatened a "Contempt of Congress" charge and vote against Eric Holder. Then, as of yesterday and in contradiction to Eric Holder's false promise that he would release an additional 1300 documents, President Obama stepped in and asserted Executive Privilege; thereby blocking any further document releases and, and as a result, effectively shutting down the investigation.
Anytime during the last year, the President could have played the Executive Privilege card. But, he waited until "now"; only 4-1/2 months before the election. Obama knows that "now" is too little time for Congress to go through the courts and get an override of the President's invocation of "Executive Privilege" and I believe this was strategically intentional.
Let's face it, if their wasn't anything in those documents that would point to high levels of involvement in "Fast and Furious", many more could have been easily released; effectively forcing Congress to give up and shut down the whole investigation. There's something there and Obama and Holder want it hidden; especially before the election. Their argument that people and tactics would be exposed by releasing the rest of the documents is just bull. It's bull because the heavy handed use of broad, black, permanent marker "redaction" could have been used to hide any truly sensitive names and facts. Instead, stupidly, this President and his Attorney General may have just left the electorate thinking that they are truly hiding something. For some voters, this just might be enough to question voting for an Obama reelection. And, the Obama political blunders continue piling up.
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All along, Eric Holder and his Justice Department members have blocked the investigation from going forward. From the very beginning, there have been nothing but lies; starting with the first lie that the program was some kind of "rouge" program that had been conducted by local people without approvals from above. But, now we know that the program was pushed from very high levels within the Justice Department; with a scapegoated Assistant U.S. Attorney General being forced to step down over his involvement in the program. Beyond that, the Attorney General, himself, Eric Holder, has also been caught lying; with his lies being easily exposed by documents and emails. So, it's no wonder that the Republicans smell a rat. And, just maybe, the tail of that rat can be followed all the way to the White House.
Through the entire investigation, only about 5% of the thousands of "Furious" documents have been handed over to Congress; and, Holder has stonewalled on the access to any further documents for months. The investigation finally came to a head when the Republicans threatened a "Contempt of Congress" charge and vote against Eric Holder. Then, as of yesterday and in contradiction to Eric Holder's false promise that he would release an additional 1300 documents, President Obama stepped in and asserted Executive Privilege; thereby blocking any further document releases and, and as a result, effectively shutting down the investigation.
Anytime during the last year, the President could have played the Executive Privilege card. But, he waited until "now"; only 4-1/2 months before the election. Obama knows that "now" is too little time for Congress to go through the courts and get an override of the President's invocation of "Executive Privilege" and I believe this was strategically intentional.
Let's face it, if their wasn't anything in those documents that would point to high levels of involvement in "Fast and Furious", many more could have been easily released; effectively forcing Congress to give up and shut down the whole investigation. There's something there and Obama and Holder want it hidden; especially before the election. Their argument that people and tactics would be exposed by releasing the rest of the documents is just bull. It's bull because the heavy handed use of broad, black, permanent marker "redaction" could have been used to hide any truly sensitive names and facts. Instead, stupidly, this President and his Attorney General may have just left the electorate thinking that they are truly hiding something. For some voters, this just might be enough to question voting for an Obama reelection. And, the Obama political blunders continue piling up.
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Friday, December 9, 2011
Obama Administration's Gun "Walking" to Push Gun Control
It's no secret that Obama and most Democrats wish they could overturn the 2nd Amendment- right to bear arms. Therefore, it's also no wonder that we are now finding out that Obama's own Justice Department may have used a program called "Fast and Furious" to "walk" legally purchased assault rifles over the border of Mexico and into the hands of the drug cartels in a "staged" attempt to make a case for strict gun controls. (Click here to read the CBS News report: "Documents: ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make the case for gun regulations")
Right now, Attorney General Eric Holder is on the hot seat. Congressional hearings are trying to determine just how high up. in the Justice Department. the "Fast and Furious" program received its authorization. Increasingly, it's looking like Holder was well aware of it -- if not actually authorizing it. At the same time, one has to wonder if Obama, himself, was somewhat involved. I say this because the President, nearly 2-1/2 years ago, used a phoney statistic in an attempt to pump up support for an assault weapons ban. In his April 2009 press conference with Mexico's President Calderone, Obama and Calderone both stated that 90% of the weapons being used by the Mexican drug cartel's came from the U.S.
But this was a statistic that was both taken out of context and embellished. In 2008, Mexico had confiscated more than 30,000 firearms from captured and killed criminals and drug cartel members. Of that, approximately 7200 of those weapons were suspected to have come into Mexico from the United States and they were returned to law enforcement officials in this country in order to determine their true country of origin. Of those 7200, only 4000 had enough of their serial numbers left in tact so that they could actually be traced. Consequently, of that 4000, only 3480 of them or 87% of the 4000 were traceable back to the U.S. Now, for what has to be political convenience, officials in this country have rounded that 87% to 90%. However, that still left more than 26,500 of the original 30,000 that didn't come into Mexico from this country. In reality, only about 12% were from the U.S. Not 90%. (Click here to read this report from the prestigious Stratfor Global Intelligence group: "Mexico's Gun Supply and the 90 Percent Myth")
Now, I ask you: If a President is willing to lie about a number in an attempt to gain support for gun control, what else would he be willing to do?
Right now, Attorney General Eric Holder is on the hot seat. Congressional hearings are trying to determine just how high up. in the Justice Department. the "Fast and Furious" program received its authorization. Increasingly, it's looking like Holder was well aware of it -- if not actually authorizing it. At the same time, one has to wonder if Obama, himself, was somewhat involved. I say this because the President, nearly 2-1/2 years ago, used a phoney statistic in an attempt to pump up support for an assault weapons ban. In his April 2009 press conference with Mexico's President Calderone, Obama and Calderone both stated that 90% of the weapons being used by the Mexican drug cartel's came from the U.S.
But this was a statistic that was both taken out of context and embellished. In 2008, Mexico had confiscated more than 30,000 firearms from captured and killed criminals and drug cartel members. Of that, approximately 7200 of those weapons were suspected to have come into Mexico from the United States and they were returned to law enforcement officials in this country in order to determine their true country of origin. Of those 7200, only 4000 had enough of their serial numbers left in tact so that they could actually be traced. Consequently, of that 4000, only 3480 of them or 87% of the 4000 were traceable back to the U.S. Now, for what has to be political convenience, officials in this country have rounded that 87% to 90%. However, that still left more than 26,500 of the original 30,000 that didn't come into Mexico from this country. In reality, only about 12% were from the U.S. Not 90%. (Click here to read this report from the prestigious Stratfor Global Intelligence group: "Mexico's Gun Supply and the 90 Percent Myth")
Now, I ask you: If a President is willing to lie about a number in an attempt to gain support for gun control, what else would he be willing to do?
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