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**Posted by Phineas Oh, for Pete’s sake! The Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment charging five individuals allegedly involved in Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s death, and announced a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to the arrest of those suspects still at large. For the first time, federal officials also [...]
**Posted by Phineas Apparently lying to Congress and being found in contempt violates the District of Columbia Bar Association’s code of professional conduct. Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in [...]
**Posted by Phineas Summary: This scandal got people killed, Holder and Obama won’t let the truth come out, and Gowdy is outraged. Outrage is good. You know what? I like this guy. via The Jawa Report (Crossposted at Public Secrets)
**Posted by Phineas Hah! Found out last night that Your Humble Correspondent, cross-posting at Sister Toldjah’s site on the administration’s invocation of executive privilege with regard to Operation Fast and Furious, was cited briefly on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show,” hosted by the ever-genteel Ed Schultz. Here’s the screen cap: (Click for a larger size) [...]
**Posted by Phineas IBD’s Michael Ramirez nails it: (Click for a larger version) Yeah, gee. What’s the big deal? It’s just two dead federal agents and a bunch of Mexicans. via Power Line (Crossposted at Public Secrets)
**Posted by Phineas In a video last week, Bill Whittle asserted that the only explanation for Operation Fast and Furious was as an effort to undermine the Second Amendment and pave the way for strict gun control. It’s an argument made by others, notably Bob Owens at PJMedia, and it has a certain appeal, if [...]
**Posted by Phineas Or, as Bill Whittle asks at the end, “Have you no shame?” (1) The ideological reasons behind Operation Fast and Furious are still speculation, but, given the far-left agenda subscribed to by both Obama and Holder, the idea that this might have been aimed at imposing strict gun control is not unreasonable. And it [...]
**Posted by Phineas Shades of Richard Nixon. Faced with a contempt of Congress citation for failure to produce subpoenaed documents, Attorney General Eric Holder apparently went to his boss, President Obama, and asked for a little cover. He got it: President Obama has granted an 11th-hour request by Attorney General Eric Holder to exert executive [...]
**Posted by Phineas Well, ain’t that just dandy. I’ve said before that the number of Mexican soldiers, federal agents, police and civilians killed by weapons allowed to “walk” over the border into Mexico under the Department of Justice’s “sting” operation has amounted to at least 300, per the Mexican Attorney General. Here are some specifics, [...]
**Posted by Phineas Last week I reported that the Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R – CA) House Oversight Committee was preparing contempt of Congress charges against Attorney General Eric Holder for non-cooperation and defying subpoenas in the committee’s investigation into Operation Fast and Furious. Also known as “Gunwalker,” the administration’s supposed plan was to funnel guns [...]