I recall a year and half ago, or so, this was merely a nasty little ignored program, with bigger goals, (and it's Bush's fault),( sarcasm ), Since the MSM ignored it, (and still does),...those like Mike Vandebough, and David Codrea, have steadily persisted, as well as Sen. Grassley, and especially Rep. Issa, have continued to dig.
It's all a political game, but the mf'ers involved are guilty. Flat out....Issa still hammers them. More to come. The Devil is in the details,...and guess what? More are coming out.
http://www.examiner.com/article/issa-to-question-oig-head-as-atf-pores-over-reportThe stonewalling is becoming hard to bury....Even with an enabling MSM....OIG's are hard to ignore...despite the attempts to bury it.
Issa to question OIG head as ATF pores over report Darrell Issa
August 27, 2012
By: David Codrea
A Friday letter sent by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz warned against delaying release of the long-awaited report on its Fast and Furious gunwalking investigation and summoned the IG to appear before the Committee on Sept. 11 for questioning. Additionally, the letter revealed that a copy of the report has been provided to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in addition to being sent to Justice.
The length of time the report has taken to prepare prompted Gun Rights Examiner to observe last December that it had already exceeded the time it took the Warren Commission to produce its report on the John F. Kennedy assassination. Cautions were also raised months back about the selection of Horowitz to replace then-acting IG Cynthia A. Schnedar, who had close ties to Attorney General Eric Holder, when this column pointed out his close ties to Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, identified early on as a person of interest in Fast and Furious by this column and citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars.
“We have been told through our sources for some time to be ready for a ‘September Surprise,’” Vanderboegh told his readers yesterday of this latest development. “The idea was to get the OIG report on the record and then, if it was a whitewash, to blow it out of the water with additional documents and witnesses already in the hands of the Issa committee.”
That makes Issa’s warning against delay all the more understandable, and further validates claims made over the weekend to this columnist by a past-proven source that there are “a lot of closed doors” at ATF Headquarters, as Acting Director B. Todd Jones, Deputy Director Thomas E. Brandon, the Chief Counsel’s office and relevant staffers are “poring” over a report said to be over 400 pages long.It also renews hope that Issa and the Committee will be taking heed of unsolicited public counsel from this correspondent and Vanderboegh to demand the evidentiary work papers used as the basis for report findings, characterized by an adviser in government practices as “hot stuff, that’s for sure.”
In related developments, a source tells Gun Rights Examiner OIG will also be investigating the “double-dipping” by retiring ATF official William McMahon, an apparent candidate for criminal prosecution for his role in Fast and Furious, who has taken outside employment with J.P. Morgan for an assignment in the Philippines, as well as a complaint from one of ATF’s Directors of Industry Operations, and concerns over arbitrary and punitive revocations of Federal Firearms Licenses such as this column reported earlier this month regarding security firm Brink’s taking legal action in response.Another ATF manager, former Deputy Assistant Director Harry McCabe, mentioned in a July, 2011, staff memo announcing the promotion/”reassignment” of McMahon, and one inextricably tied to such revocations, has retired (something WarOnGuns reported in advance) and taken employment with the National Shooting Sports Foundation, where he will ostensibly be helping retailers stay out of regulatory hot water. That sounds good in concept, but sources have told Gun Rights Examiner they welcomed his retirement and consider this new gig "a wildly head-scratching move," particularly as this individual was reportedly responsible for establishing a policy of taking FFL matters to hearings as opposed to negotiating settlements, and the repercussions from that, such as the Brink’s suit, will continue to make themselves known, a prediction time is expected to tell.
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Look, this is being buried. Right now "our" gov't is doing things you cannot imagine....and has been for some time...Can "we" fix it?
Probably not...
Can we correct it? And burn the SOB's?
Maybe...
This is such a cover-up....The MSM will never cover this like Watergate with BHO in office...But it is that big. It involves so many agencies it's getting ridiculous.
Plus, Holder was questioned just last week for possibly abusing DOJ travel policy....
Made it on Drudge,...other than that....not a (insert expletive) word....
A Final Cigarette before a firing squad seems too dignified. This is what our .gov't does, and has done for some time.
When do we Honor Our Founders...They made provisions in OUR time of trouble.
?
"Our Founding Fathers, having endured the tyranny of the British Empire, wanted to guarantee our God-given liberties. They devised our three branches of government and our system of checks and balances.
But they were still concerned that the system could fail, and that we might someday face a new tyranny from our own government. They wanted us to be able to defend ourselves, and that's why they gave us the Second Amendment." Gov. Mike Huckabee
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