Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Barker's Pre-Vacation Newsbites: Oct. 4, 2011


Well, folks... it's been a whole three weeks! Time for another vacation...

I plan to be back blogging on Tuesday, Oct. 11.
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William R. Barker said...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/furiously_unraveling_f6fpYY4OXSJg62rFIrFiUI#ixzz1ZlywF72T

Hardly a week passes now without some revelation about the Obama administration’s complicity in what may yet turn out to be one of the worst and most lethal scandals in American history: Operation Fast and Furious.

* IT'S THE COVER-UP, FOLKS... (*SHRUG*)

In a classic Friday document dump - a sure sign of an administration with something to hide - the feds released to congressional investigators a month’s worth of e-mail correspondence in the summer of 2010 between Bill Newell, then head ATF agent in Phoenix, and his friend Kevin O’Reilly, a former White House national-security staffer for North American affairs.

What do you know? Among the e-mails was a photograph of a powerful Barrett .50-caliber rifle that had been illegally purchased in Tucson and recovered in Sonora, Mexico, raising the possibility of a second “gunwalking” program, this one called “Wide Receiver.”

* OH, JEEZUS CHRIST...!

* BTW, HAT TIP TO MY BUDDY MIKE D. YES... I NOTED THIS STORY YESTERDAY, BUT FAILED TO INCLUDE IT IN YESTERDAY'S NEWSBITES. (THANKS, MIKE!)

Like Fast and Furious, the ATF-supervised scheme that saw thousands of weapons “walk” across the Mexican border for reasons no one in the Justice Department has yet satisfactorily explained, Wide Receiver was apparently a joint operation that also included the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the IRS and the US Attorney’s office.

(*DRUM ROLL*) WAIT FOR IT... WAIT FOR IT...

It’s likely there have been others, in such states as Florida and Indiana.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

While the back-channel e-mails don’t explicitly discuss Fast and Furious, they do show the White House’s intense interest in the ATF’s and other federal agencies’ activities in Arizona. In one message, O’Reilly asks Newell whether he can share some information with other officials. “Sure, just don’t want ATF HQ to find out, especially since this is what they should be doing (briefing you)!” comes the reply.

We’ve also just learned from documents that guns linked to Fast and Furious turned up in El Paso last year - the first time such weapons have surfaced outside Arizona, where the guns were “released.” A convicted drug felon was allowed to buy 40 AK-47-type rifles, which eventually wound up in Texas.

By now, it’s clear that the US government is in Fast and Furious up to its ears - with two, possibly three dead agents and more than 200 dead Mexicans to show for an operation that never had the slightest chance of success.

The only real question is: Why?

October 4, 2011 at 9:36 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20115038-10391695.html

New documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial Fast and Furious operation as far back as July 2010. That directly contradicts his statement to Congress.

On May 3, 2011, Holder told a Judiciary Committee hearing, "I'm not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."

Yet internal Justice Department documents show that at least ten months before that hearing, Holder began receiving frequent memos discussing Fast and Furious.

* FOLKS... THIS IS A CBS NEWS STORY; FOLLOW THE LINK, READ THE STORY DIRECTLY, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE LINKS WITHIN THE STORY TO SEE THE DOCUMENTATION FOR YOURSELVES. HOLDER LIED TO CONGRESS - LIED UNDER OATH.

[T]he new documents...

* NEWLY UNCOVERED BY THE MEDIA! NOT "NEW." (*SMIRK*)

...leave no doubt that high level Justice officials knew guns were being "walked."

Two Justice Department officials mulled it over in an email exchange Oct. 18, 2010. "It's a tricky case given the number of guns that have walked but is a significant set of prosecutions," says Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division. Deputy Chief of the National Gang Unit James Trusty replies "I'm not sure how much grief we get for 'guns walking.' It may be more like, "Finally they're going after people who sent guns down there."

The Justice Department told CBS News that the officials in those emails were talking about a different case started before Eric Holder became Attorney General. And tonight they tell CBS News, Holder misunderstood that question from the committee - he did know about Fast and Furious - just not the details.

* FOLKS... SCOOTER LIBBY WENT TO JAIL. HOLDER BELONGS IN JAIL. IT'S THAT SIMPLE. THE FACT THAT OBAMA HASN'T FIRED HOLDER TELLS YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OBAMA.

October 4, 2011 at 9:42 AM

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