Good day all. Last week was a busy one. We had James “The Wimp” Comey basically shooting himself in the foot, and now it looks like Eric Holder might want to start looking over his shoulder. Operation Fast&Furious is back.
First a little background. Operation Fast&Furious was a project run from the BATFE under orders of then Attorney General Eric Holder. The idea, in the long term, was to end private ownership of firearms. The operation allowed thousands of firearms sold from gun shops along the Mexican/American border to be sold and illegally transferred across the border. The idea was to show that we needed more laws restricting gun ownership.
The problem was that the BATFE had no mechanism in place to track the guns. Furthermore, when several dealers grew concerned and called the BATFE on some of these purchases, they were told to let them through and shut up. In the end, these guns ended up in the hands of the criminals and hundreds, if not thousands of Mexican men, women and children were murdered with them, along with a Border Security Agent.
Under instructions of Holder, the Department of Justice began an extensive cover-up. When the Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives, they began looking into it. The level of obstruction from the DoJ eventually led to a vote of Contempt of Congress to be issued against Eric Holder. Since he was part of the inner circle of the Obama regime, he was protected and continued on with his lies. Now a report has been released and I suspect Holder’s ears are burning hotter then the sun. Here are the details from Fox News:
Members of a congressional committee at a public hearing Wednesday blasted former President Barack Obama and his attorney general for allegedly covering up an investigation into the death of a Border Patrol agent killed as a result of a botched government gun-running project known as Operation Fast and Furious.
The House Oversight Committee also Wednesday released a scathing, nearly 300-page report that found Holder’s Justice Department tried to hide the facts from the loved ones of slain Border Patrol Brian Terry – seeing his family as more of a “nuisance” than one deserving straight answers – and slamming Obama’s assertion of executive privilege to deny Congress access to records pertaining to Fast and Furious.
“[Terry’s death] happened on Dec. 14, 2010, and we still don’t have all the answers,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, committee chairman, said of Terry’s death. “Brian Terry’s family should not have to wait six years for answers.”
Hopefully, now that we have a new President and AG, we can finally get to the bottom of this fiasco and start prosecuting those responsible.
Terry’s death exposed Operation Fast and Furious, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) operation in which the federal government allowed criminals to buy guns in Phoenix-area shops with the intention of tracking them as they were transported into Mexico. But the agency lost track of more than 1,400 of the 2,000 guns they allowed smugglers to buy. Two of those guns were found at the scene of Terry’s killing.
They’re still finding these guns at crime scenes, both in Mexico and the United States.
“More than five years after Brian’s murder, the Terry family still wonders about key details of Operation Fast and Furious,” the committee’s report states. “The Justice Department’s obstruction of Congress’s investigation contributed to the Terry family’s inability to find answers.”
That was the whole plan of course. If anything should lead to the impeachment of a president, (Obama), it was facilitating the criminal actions that led to the murder of a federal agent. As for Holder? He should have been prosecuted years ago.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, testified Wednesday in front of the committee, accusing DOJ and ATF officials of obstructing the investigation and working to silence ATF agents who informed the Senate of Fast and Furious.
And Senator Grassley pulled no punches.
“The Department of Justice and ATF had no intention of looking for honest answers and being transparent,” said Grassley, now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a staunch supporter of whistleblowers.
“In fact, from the onset, bureaucrats employed shameless delay tactics to obstruct the investigation.”
This is what happens when you put politics over the law and the Constitution. The Obama Regime’s well known penchant for “Ruling by Decree”, (Using Executive orders and regulations), is going to take decades to clean up.
One of those silenced ATF agents, John Dodson, testified Wednesday that he remains “in a state of purgatory” since objecting to Fast and Furious and has been the subject of reprisals and ridicule at the agency.
“That decision, the single act of standing up and saying, ‘What we are doing is wrong’… instantly took my standing from being that of an agent of the government – to an enemy of the state,” Dodson said. “ATF and DOJ officials implemented an all-out campaign to silence and discredit me… Suffice to say, the last six to seven years at ATF have not been the best for me or my career.”
And this is why the BATFE, (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), needs to be disbanded and most of the personnel terminated from Government Employment.
The report also says that Holder’s Justice Department stonewalled inquiries from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and deceptively told him that the “ATF makes every effort to interdict” firearms purchased by straw buyers.
“There are important reasons for not giving Grassley everything he is asking for: it would embolden him in future fights and would ‘use up’ a lot of the material that we will eventually need to release to (California Rep. Darrell) Issa . . . as the oversight struggle continues,” the Office of Legislative Affairs Assistant Attorney General Ron Welch said in an email to DOJ colleagues.
Excuse me? I think someone needs to go back to Law School and brush up on the Constitutional duties of how oversight works. The Agencies do NOT decide what they will or will not release. If there is a problem with information becoming public knowledge and screwing up an active case, then you keep it behind closed doors. The procedures for this have been in place since the founding of the country.
Attorney General Sessions needs to take this report and start a criminal investigation of Holder and the other scum who not only dreamed up this stupid idea, but then obstructed Congress from its constitutional oversight duties. Holder? Life in prison without parole works for me.
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I wouldn’t put to cents on the proposition that all the miscreants involved in Fast and Furious will pay $1 in fines or spend an hour in jail, in total.
You never know. I’m about to post something regarding this morning;s shootings. Just checking the spelling and stuff. It will include a new meme