Fast and Furious Corruption and Cover Up at the Highest Levels

Congressional Republicans including Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder late last week once again requesting documents to show who was responsible for the Fast & Furious operation, and why DOJ intentionally lied to Congress early in its investigation. 

The letter had a much smaller list of documents than originally requested, even though 90% of the requested since 2010, have not been submitted by DOJ.  Representative Issa’s  44-page contempt report and resolution requested 22 sets of documents, but the latest letter only asks for two sets of documents: all communication after Feb. 4, 2011, (when DOJ rep Ron Weich lied to Congress about the Fast and Furious program), and information disclosing who planned the operation.
 
In the letter, the House leaders said that if DOJ doesn’t provide the requested information by mid-June, the House will vote to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress.  Don’t hold your breath.  Even if Holder is held in contempt, no further action will likely be taken against him based on how he has been allowed to commit many felonies without any repercussions. This crook is still the holds the highest law enforcement position in America!

If the DOJ complies only partially with the Issa subpoena, House leadership is expected to send a contempt referral to DOJ, accusing the agency of obstructing a congressional investigation, but no criminal prosecution is likely in that case either.

Issa’s committee Republicans are reportedly divided on the contempt issue, and House GOP leaders aren’t supporting Issa either.  They apparently believe they will look less partisan (and be more elect-able) by ignoring the F&F scandal than by risking the racially-charged mudslinging from the administration and the media should they proceed to hold Eric Holder & company responsible for their felonies.
 
If the House issues a contempt citation, the case then goes to the US Attorney for the District of Columbia who is obligated to bring the matter before a grand jury to consider the filing of criminal charges against Holder.  But Holder is the U.S. Attorney’s boss. 
 
The Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security is also investigating the ATF’s Fast & Furious operation.  DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement HSI agents assigned to the operation.  DHS is also implicated in the scandal.  Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, has already lied to Congress so don’t expect anything to come of the DHS IG investigation either.

The only solution that will insure a complete and fair investigation is to re-enact the independent counsel law and appoint an independent prosecutor.  The chances of this happening are somewhere between slim and none. 

Wake up America.

Comments

[Open Your Eyes]

"Fast and Furious" wasn't a botched anything. It was a successful gun-smuggling operation run by crooked A.T.F. agents who sold thousands of guns for profit to Mexican drug cartels. When it was discovered they hid behind the ridiculous cover story of it being a "botched sting". Come on America, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. With Eric Holder's continual stonewalling and refusal to turn over the relevant documents it certainly suggests that he personally approved of the gun-running operation and likely personally profited from it.

Think about it for a moment: If this was an honest sting operation that went awry the A.T.F. would have had its small-arms armorers take apart the receivers (the "main body" of a rifle) and render them unusable, on the same principle as it provides fake explosives to people it sets up for "terrorist" sting operations. It doesn't give them live explosives, as we have seen time and time again. So if this was what it is being claimed to be the thousands of weapons sold to Mexican drug cartels would have been harmless. As we can see, with the death of at least one Border Patrol agent who was killed by one of these weapons, they most certainly were not rendered unusable. Which by itself blows the "botched sting operation" story out of the water.
Even aside from that ask yourselves how incredibly stupid and naive would someone have to be to approve an operation that ostensibly relies upon being able to track thousands of guns after they've been sold to Mexican drug runners and then... what? Swoop into Mexico to confiscate them and arrest the cartel members? Wait until violent crimes are committed with these weapons and hope they get left at the scene of the crime like with the Border Patrol agent killing? What? The mechanics of how this "sting" was purportedly supposed to work are so unworkable as to beggar the imagination. Nobody that gets appointed attorney general is either that dumb or that naive to think this plan was anything other than crooked A.T.F. agents trying to make some money on the side. The question that needs to be asked to Mr. Holder is this: How do you want history to remember you? Because there are only two real choices. You were either someone so incredibly stupid and naive as to not be able to see what this was that you were approving. Or you're crooked as a dog's hind leg, knew what this was and approved it anyway because you were getting something out of it. One of the two. So which is it Mr. Holder?

By Holder's refusal to cooperate with the House investigation it makes it pretty obvious that he was deeply involved in this successful gun-smuggling operation. By Obama's invocation of executive privilege to try to cover up for him it makes the president an accessory after the fact to this crime. They are both crooked as the day is long and should both be indicted. Period.