It is being reported on Sipsey Street Irregulars that Eric Holder and the “Justice” Department are not the only ones stonewalling the investigation into the deadly Operation Fast and Furious scandal. Eric Holder may have help in the form of none other than House Speaker John Boehner and the fix might already be in.
Here is the sad news told by someone in the know:
As for yesterday . . . (it was) a plea bargain of sorts where both sides save face. The Committee will accept the scalps of Breuer and Wienstein, DOJ will release enough of the (documents) to condemn them, claim cooperation (thus giving the appearance of recognizing congress’s oversight authority), and Holder will survive – looking like a “leader” for offering them up (along with a few lower level ATF and DOJ folk). The Committee will chalk one in the “Win” column for oversight and holding people accountable. DOJ will have the same for cooperating and accountability. All sides win, all checks and balance intact and working fine, all powers respected and then they move on to the next act of political theatre. The only ones left to sweep up the mess, are the American and Mexican peoples – ignorantly secure in our beliefs that the system works and that our government is actually for us, by us, and of us.
Another source confirmed the foot of Boehner on the brake pedal of the Issa Committee investigation and said, “the only thing that will stop him is if somebody chucks him out of the car.”
Is it possible that John Boehner and Eric Holder have already struck a deal to implicate “Justice” Department underlings and through this deal John Boehner is actually condoning–and encouraging–Eric Holder’s stonewalling tactics, while waiting for the proper time to release just the documents which will bring down nobody of import within the “Justice” Department and let Eric Holder save face?
Gunrunner: Eric Holder testifies in front of the Oversight Committee
I had to work yesterday so I was not able to watch Eric Holder’s testimony in front of the Oversight Committee on Operation Fast and Furious so I have been scouring the internet trying to find out the details of his testimony.
From what I have read it appears as if Eric Holder decided to take the offensive in his testimony in an attempt to portray this investigation as a political game in an election year which really holds no credibility because he has done nothing wrong. And he had the backing of the Democrats on the Oversight Committee who decided to release a false report before his testimony which absolved Eric Holder from any blame even though the “Justice” Department has refused to release 93,000 pages of documents which just might implicate Eric Holder in the deadly scandal.
Eric Holder brought back images of Barack Obama’s holier than thou arrogant attitude (remember Barack Obama stating the Tea Party should be thanking him for what he has done) when he used the how dare you question me defense in regard to Operation Fast and Furious by stating the following:
As a member of Congress, I mean, really, is that the way in which you want to be seen, you want to be known?”
Yes, standing up for justice when hundreds of Mexicans and two Americans have been murdered with weapons provided to criminals by the United States government is exactly how members of the Congress should want to be known but Eric Holder remains indignant because the Congress wants to hold him accountable. At the same time that he was saying he deserved credit for all the good he has done as Attorney General, Eric Holder also claimed that while he knew nothing about the deadly scandal he should be held accountable for what he did or did not know: Read more…
Two “Justice” Department officials have accepted bribes, yet Eric Holder refuses to hold them accountable
If this story is true, and judging from the “Justice” Department’s recent past–from Fast and Furious to CAIR to the Black Panthers voter intimidation case–I have no reason to believe it isn’t, the “Justice” Department under Eric Holder has hit a new low in corruption. According to the story, at least two officials in the “Justice” Department have received bribes in return for not prosecuting financial executives who were indicted on federal charges. Eric Holder knows about this, yet nobody has been held accountable:
A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller that at least two DOJ prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted under court seal within the past 13 months, but never arrested or prosecuted.
The sitting governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, his attorney general and an unspecified number of Virgin Islands legislators also accepted bribes, the source said, adding that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is aware prosecutors and elected officials were bribed and otherwise compromised, but has not held anyone accountable.
Mitt Romney: “I’m not concerned about the very poor”
By now you have probably heard that Mitt Romney stated he is “not concerned about the very poor.” Of course this is the portion of his statement that the mainstream media has focused on, but this was is not the entirety of his comment. Here is what Mitt Romney said in full:
”I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it. I’m not concerned about the very rich. They’re doing just fine. I’m concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling.”
This sheds a little more light on the position Mitt Romney was trying to articulate; he was stating that the United States already has programs in place to help the poor and that he was worried about middle class America because they do not have the same “safety net” as do the poor. We can debate whether or not that statement is actually true, and I would bet that most struggling Americans would not agree with Mitt Romney, but that is not the subject of this post.
Newt Gingrich promises to issue Executive Orders to undo Barack Obama’s agenda on his first day in office
I was listening to Newt Gingrich’s speech after the Florida primary and I heard him once again promise to issue Executive Orders on his first day in office on abortion, the Keystone Pipeline, Obama’s czars, religion, and I am sure there were more but I can’t come up with them off the top of my head right now.
This was met with wild applause from his supporters in the room which I found quite interesting indeed. One of the complaints that conservatives have had with Barack Obama is what they consider his abuse of this power and yet Newt Gingrich’s supporters now agree with this as a means to undo what Barack Obama has done? Where is the consistency here?
If you believe that Barack Obama has abused the Executive Order to pass his agenda, how can you support Newt Gingrich using the same power to implement his?
Gunrunner: Democrats attempt to whitewash Fast and Furious scandal
Apparently Eric Holder’s stonewalling the release of documents pertinent to the “Justice” Department’s involvement in the deadly scandal wasn’t protection enough to put the minds of Democrats at ease, so earlier today Democrats on the Oversight Committee tried to undercut Darrell Issa’s investigation by releasing a false report exonerating Eric Holder.
Elijah Cummings’s report claims that there has been no evidence found during the investigation which implicates Eric Holder in the scandal and also claims that this was just another in a long line of misguided ATF operations, while once again attempting to place the blame at the feet of George Bush. Nothing to see here!
Charles Grassley said this report didn’t pass the “laugh test” because the “Justice” Department has only released 10% of the documents the Oversight Committee has requested.
The article linked to above also brings to light several points Elijah Cummings had to have willingly ignored in order to come to this conclusion and is a must read. There is no doubt that Elijah Cummings and the Democrats are not interested in the truth about this scandal and they are not interested in justice for the Brian Terry family, and they are not interested in getting to the real goal of this scandal–proving the 90% lie–they are only interested in protecting Eric Holder and his minions.
Darrell Issa has repeatedly asked for Eric Holder to release certain documents related to the deadly operation known as Fast and Furious, and while Eric Holder has released some of the documents, he has been stonewalling the release of most of them while ignoring Darrell Issa’s subpoena.
With Eric Holder set to testify under oath to the Oversight Committee in the near future Darrell Issa is understandably getting agitated and frustrated by what he feels is Eric Holder’s defiance, and he has now given Eric Holder until February 9th to comply with his request or risk being held in contempt of Congress.
Here is some of what Darrell Issa wrote in a letter to Eric Holder:
“this committee will have no alternative but to move forward with proceedings to hold you in contempt of Congress”
“Your actions lead us to conclude that the department is actively engaged in a cover-up,” he said in a four-page letter.
The “Justice” Department has slowly been releasing these documents in a series of Friday document dumps and with each release the evidence becomes more damning to Eric Holder; the “Justice” Department’s latest document dump shows us that Eric Holder actually learned about Brian Terry’s shooting on the day it happened, however it still leaves in doubt whether or not his aide informed him that the murder weapon was part of Operation Fast and Furious.
With every document release showing Darrell Issa’s investigation getting closer and closer to Eric Holder one can only be left to wonder if the documents he refuses to release actually implicate Eric Holder. Do these documents prove that Eric Holder’s aide did in fact inform him the murder weapon was part of Fast and Furious? If so, this would prove that Eric Holder perjured himself under oath. For what other reason could Eric Holder be so leery of releasing the documents? Surely if they exonerated him he already would have released them, yet he refuses to do so and he is giving the impression that he is hiding something.
This has forced Darrell Issa to threaten him with contempt and I can only hope that Darrell Issa does not back down until he has in his possession every document he has requested from Eric Holder.
Gunrunner: New documents released about Fast and Furious call into question Eric Holder’s original testimony
Another Friday, another document dump.
When Eric Holder testified back in May of 2011 about Operation Fast and Furious he was asked how long ago he had learned about the deadly scandal, to which he answered, “probably over the last few weeks.” But the documents released last Friday put the truthfulness of his testimony on shaky ground–or should a say, even more shaky ground.
We already had learned that the original letter that the “Justice” Department had sent to Senator Grassley regarding the scandal had to be withdrawn from the Congress because it contained “inaccuracies,” and we also know that Eric Holder has already changed his story once before when it comes to the issue of what he knew and when he knew it, so it comes as no surprise to me that the latest documents which were released might just prove that Eric Holder knew more about Operation Fast and Furious than he cares to admit in public.
Here is some of what can be found in this latest document dump: Read more…
Solargate: Another “green energy” company which received stimulus money files for bankruptcy
Ener1 is a company which manufactures the batteries used in electric cars. This company was awarded over $118 million in stimulus money as part of Barack Obama’s “green energy initiative.” When it was learned that the company was awarded this money this is what Brian Levine–one of Joe Biden’s policy advisers–had to say about the news:
The facility that the Vice President visited would not exist if not for a $118.5 million grant from the Department of Energy, which was part of a $2.4 billion Recovery Act investment in electric vehicles
When Joe Biden visited the company he had the following to say:
Well, ladies and gentlemen, here at Ener1, we’re going to harness electricity and bring it to the world like Edison did more than a century ago,” said Biden. “We’re going to reshape the way Americans drive, the way Americans consume, the way Americans power their lives. And in turn, we’re going to reshape America itself. We may not make battery power so cheap that only the rich can afford to drive their cars on imported oil, but—but–with Enron1 (sic) leading the way, we’re certainly going to come pretty close.
It turns out that Enir1 did not “come pretty close” to remaking America as Joe Biden had claimed, and while Brian Levine claimed that the “future looks bright” for Enir1 it turns out that neither of these predictions were close to being the truth because today the company filed for bankruptcy.
Brian Levine and Joe Biden made their statements in January of 2011 and it was predicted that because of this government aid the company would eventually be able to add 1,ooo people to the workforce. Even if this ended up being true, $118 million to create 1,000 jobs seems like a high price to pay. But one year later the company which Brian Levine said would not exist without the stimulus money has filed for bankruptcy anyway and may soon cease to exist in the near future so it turns out that the taxpayers spent $118 million to prop up a green energy company for one year.
What a bargain!
Gunrunner: Arizona to open an investigation into Fast and Furious
I was going to write a post about this last week when the news first broke, but then decided against it because I felt this was something that was going nowhere so why bother? But after reading this article tonight I asked myself a different question; why not write about it?
Frustrated with the slow progress being made by the federal government’s investigation into the Fast and Furious scandal, due in part to the stonewalling of Eric Holder on pertinent documents related to the scandal, Arizona has decided to open up its own investigation into the deadly scandal to determine if the federal government broke any state laws when it entered the illicit business of gun trafficking.
Here is part of what Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin had to say earlier today about this decision: Read more…
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