Comment by Jim Campbell, Citizen Journalist, Oath Keeper and Patriot.
Eric Holder should be begging if the truth is ever uncovered he may well be swinging from a rope.
Have we waited long enough for these people who were involved with the killing of people as in to many to count starting with Boarder Patrolman Brian Terry to be brought to justice and hopefully be put behind bars?
Bryan Terry
What is wrong with the Congress of the United States and Darrel Issa’s committee that he is incapable of putting these criminals behind bars?
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, I’m J.C. and I approve this message.
Breitbart’s Big Government
Judicial Watch had filed, on June 22, 2012, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking all documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious and “specifically [a]ll records subject to the claim of executive privilege invoked by President Barack Obama on or about June 20, 2012.”
The administration has refused to comply with Judicial Watch’s FOIA request, and in mid-September the group filed a lawsuit challenging Holder’s denial. That lawsuit remains ongoing but within the past week President Barack Obama’s administration filed what’s called a “motion to stay” the suit. Such a motion is something that if granted would delay the lawsuit indefinitely.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said that Holder’s and Obama’s desire to continually hide these Fast and Furious documents is “ironic” now that they’re so gung-ho on gun control. “It is beyond ironic that the Obama administration has initiated an anti-gun violence push as it seeking to keep secret key documents about its very own Fast and Furious gun walking scandal,” Fitton said in a statement. “Getting beyond the Obama administration’s smokescreen, this lawsuit is about a very simple principle: the public’s right to know the full truth about an egregious political scandal that led to the death of at least one American and countless others in Mexico. The American people are sick and tired of the Obama administration trying to rewrite FOIA law to protect this president and his appointees. Americans want answers about Fast and Furious killings and lies.” Complete article below.
The only justification Holder uses to ask the court to indefinitely delay Judicial Watch’s suit is that there’s another lawsuit ongoing for the same documents – one filed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Judicial Watch has filed a brief opposing the DOJ’s motion to stay.
As the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was voting Holder into contempt of Congress for his refusal to cooperate with congressional investigators by failing to turn over tens of thousands of pages of Fast and Furious documents, Obama asserted the executive privilege over them. The full House of Representatives soon after voted on a bipartisan basis to hold Holder in contempt.
There were two parts of the contempt resolution. Holder was, and still is, in both civil and criminal contempt of Congress. The criminal resolution was forwarded to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald Machen–who works for Holder–for prosecution. Despite being technically required by law to bring forth criminal charges against Holder, under orders from Holder’s Department of Justice Machen chose to ignore the resolution.
The second part of the contempt resolution–civil contempt of Congress–allowed House Republicans to hire legal staff to challenge President Obama’s assertion of the executive privilege. That lawsuit remains ongoing despite Holder’s and the DOJ’s attempt to dismiss it and settle it.
It’s unclear what’s in the documents Obama asserted privilege over, but the president’s use of the extraordinary power appears weak. There are two types of presidential executive privilege: the presidential communications privilege and the deliberative process privilege. Use of the presidential communications privilege would require that the president himself or his senior-most advisers were involved in the discussions.
Since the president and his cabinet-level officials continually claim they had no knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious until early 2011 when the information became public–and Holder claims he didn’t read the briefing documents he was sent that outlined the scandal and how guns were walking while the operation was ongoing–Obama says he’s using the less powerful deliberative process privilege.
The reason why Obama’s assertion of that deliberative process privilege over these documents is weak at best is because the Supreme Court has held that such a privilege assertion is invalidated by even the suspicion of government wrongdoing. Obama, Holder, the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and virtually everyone else involved in this scandal have admitted that government wrongdoing actually took place in Operation Fast and Furious.
In Fast and Furious, the ATF “walked” about 2,000 firearms into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. That means through straw purchasers they allowed sales to happen and didn’t stop the guns from being trafficked even though they had the legal authority to do so and were fully capable of doing so.
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexican citizens–estimates put it around at least 300–were killed with these firearms.
Obama is such a contemptuous liar and scumbag! I want to see him tarred and feathered and run out of washington in a barrel hangin from his shoulders while Moochie trots alongside of him in her jc penny dress screamin’ Oh lawdie lawdie!
Issa ONCE upon a time had the reputation of the bulldog that would not let go once he sunk his teeth into someone….what happened Issa?
There is more going on there than we are hearing about!
AND, I am quite sure Holder is biting at the bit to keep all the information from coming out because he is GUILTY AS HELL and does NOT want it made public. I remember at one point, they felt so comfortable about asking for more and more that they had asked for a tank!…
I don’t understand why no one called Deputy AG Ogden who was on video in April 2009 stating that Obama launched F&F and diverted $10,000,000 from the Recovery Funds promised for jobs for Fast & Furious – but no one talks about the video and presenting Ogden with a subpoena. So, how did they get the budget approved for the $10,000,000 to buy the guns if Obama and Holder or Congress didn’t know anything about it – Who approved allowing Obama to divert $10,000,000 for the program without knowing about it since Congress controls the purse strings? And, who tracked the $10,000,000 budget into the department’s computer as the tax dollars had to be tracked – how much going out and how much coming in – They should be asking these questions about the $10,000,000 and the video. In fact, Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder travelled to Mexico to meet with the Mexican leaders and promised to help stop the gun trafficking from the U.S. into Mexico. The Mexican leaders were complaining at the time that the guns were coming into Mexico to the cartels from the USA! So, how is it no one knew anything about Fast and Furious but they went to Mexico to the conference that dealt with US guns trafficked into Mexico?
Don’t forget – -”big fat sis” was at that same conference in Mexico!
dynamitewoman – Personally, I don’t want to see them “run” anywhere; I want them dragged, kicking and screaming, straight to the Fort Leavenworth stockade!
As I often say these days, “Nothing surprises me;” but, in reality, I’m STILL shocked & surprised at the audacity and arrogance of ALL the O-bots in the
Ogime – Boy King and Huck Folder in particular! Liars to the core – and men without conscience as they do everything in their power to subvert the Constitution and institute a fascistic government in the USA!
They all need to be swinging or behind bars! OBAMA INCLUDED
MADMEMERE, I did NOT know that she was in the conference in Mexico!
Isn’t this bordering on Treason to take $ from foreign countries…and then do their bidding?
The Logan Act says:
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Logan+Act
Jim I SO ENJOY READING YOUR BRUTALLY HONEST COMMENTS LEADING TO THE STORIES YOU POST AND THE COMMENTS LEFT BY MOST READERS ARE PRICELESS AS WELL! YOU PUT INTO WORDS WHAT PATRIOT AMERICA HAS ON IT’S MIND! THANK YOU FELLOW PATRIOTS WHO RECOGNIZE OUR NATION IS UNDER SIEGE BUT A BUNCH OF COMMUNIST THUGS & GLOBALISTS!
As I recall, “hitlery” made her appearance there, in Mexico, at this “conference” as well.
OM Gosh….I really wish she’d hide or something. She is an embarrassment to us all!
Obama isnt even a LEGAL President! NOT elligible to be! His BIRTH certificate was fake! His SS# is fake! Everything about him is fake! Hes made up of LIES! He should be put on a plane and thrown out of it without a parachute over KENYA!
JC – Holder’s (and others) involvement in murder and mayhem started long before Fast & Furious – -did you ever do any research on “Ken Trentadue”? Murdered, in his cell, while in “federal protective custody”, August, 1995-just 4 months after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Bldg., Oklahoma City, April, 1995!