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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Written by Mark Rogers
Eric Holder continues to amaze and disgust as a new round of congressional
inquisitions attempts to uncover who, how, what, when, where ….. in the
Fast and Furious gun running scandal. For over a year, this gun running
fiasco of the ATF has gone unpunished. Nobody has been fired. Nobody has
been arrested.
Holder’s most common assertion under questioning is, “not to my knowledge
”.
The Obama Law Enforcement organization allowed over 2000 guns to be put in
the hands of criminals. In typical ATF fashion, the operation was botched
and the guns were not recovered. To date 600-700 have been recovered. There
are another 1400 – 2000 (according to who gives the numbers) or so still in
the hands of criminals and cannot be found.
A U.S. border agent was killed with at least one of those guns. The Mexican
Attorney General has asserted that over 200 Mexican citizens have been
killed with guns traced to the FAF operation. The reasonable speculation is
that it obviously doesn’t stop there and many more people may be dead as a
result of this now.
And Holder doesn’t know anything about it. Also, according to Holder,
Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler nor Assistant Attorney Lanny Breuer
authorized it or had anything to do with it. Oh…… excuse me. When he was
questioned about them he said, “Not to my knowledge.” This is the top law
enforcement official in the U.S.
Democrats on Capital Hill have, in usual disgraceful unity, claimed that
there is nothing to indicate that Holder or any top officials in the Justice
Department had any knowledge of the operation. Really?
Holder’s response when asked about anybody being held responsible gave this
response:
No one has been punished ….. yet.
There is a new Attorney General in Arizona
Personnel “switches’ have been made at the ATF.
People have been “moved out” of positions.
What all that doublespeak means is that nobody is taking responsibility in
an election year. And it means that ATF personnel have been conveniently
switched around to deliberately confuse the situation and keep people quiet.
But the obvious hope that this will all go away is turning into a bloody
circus side show for the Obama administration and the Holder Justice
Department. It will be interesting to see how long Obama will allow this to
go on before he begins feeding Holder and other officials to the dogs.
Anybody, including government officials can make “mistakes”. Any well
meaning policy can be poorly evaluated. Government action can be taken that
ends up having negative results. All of these are matters of policy that can
be worked out between politicians and voters.
But Fast and Furious is yet another ridiculously failed operation of the ATF
that has resulted in people being murdered. Somebody was fully in charge.
The head of the Justice Department says, “Not me”, as do other high level
officials. But somebody is responsible. Probably more than one. And these
are not people who should be just fired. These are people who, at this point
, should be arrested and tried on criminal charges. For anybody else in the
nation, murder resulting from them embarking on a stupid endeavor would
result in …. what?
In this case “switches” have been made in “positions”.
Eric Holder is the proud attorney general who in 2009 called America a “
nation of cowards”.
Now as he keeps a puppy dog look on his face and lies to congress, it
appears he should be looking in the mirror making that statement.
Holder was a mistake President Obama made when picking his cabinet. The
bigger mistake was keeping him this long. And the biggest mistake is letting
him keep the reigns of the justice department during this FAF investigation.
The obvious concern of the Obama administration is keeping hope alive that
this monstrous disgrace will not affect the presidential campaign too deeply.
No matter that people died. Just protect the administration. |
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