Sep 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Interviewers on the Spanish-language television network Univision grilled President Barack Obama about the Operation Fast and Furious scandal plaguing his administration in an interview Thursday.
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Sep 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
During the House Government Oversight Committee Hearing, the Department of Justice IG says that the White House refused to share internal communications on Fast and Furious.
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Sep 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(FOX NEWS) A major report released Wednesday on the Operation Fast and Furious scandal faulted a range of federal agencies for the failed anti-gunrunning program -- and has resulted in the resignation of one Justice Department official. Jason Weinstein, the deputy assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division, is resigning in the wake of the ...
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Sep 8, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE BLAZE) Mexican authorities said Friday they have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, whose killing is at the center of the investigation into the flawed federal gun-walking operation known as Fast and Furious. Jesus Leonel Sanchez Meza, one of the five men charged with Terry’s murder, ...
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Aug 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE BLAZE) In an exclusive interview with TheBlaze, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) voiced his regret that Attorney General Eric Holder will not face civil contempt court proceedings relating to “Operation Fast and Furious” until after the presidential election in November. “The rules of federal procedure are a little slow” Issa told The Blaze ...
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Aug 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE DAILY CALLER) In late 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder authorized raids against marijuana dispensaries in California, where medicinal marijuana is legal, in an effort to create a distraction from the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, a new book set for release Tuesday claims. “Eric Holder, Obama’s embattled Attorney General, was under mounting ...
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Aug 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(WESTERN JOURNALISM) Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, the Sinaloa Cartel’s logistics coordinator, now in U.S. custody, states that Fast and Furious wasn’t about tracking guns in order to take down Mexican drug cartels, but about supplying drug cartels with guns—specifically and exclusively the Sinaloa Cartel. In a motion submitted by his lawyer, Zambada-Niebla makes the startling claim that ...
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Aug 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(WASHINGTON TIMES) House Republicans on Monday asked the federal courts to intervene and force the Obama administration to turn over documents from the botched Fast and Furious gun-walking operation, escalating what had been a simmering constitutional crisis. House Speaker John A. Boehner said President Obama and his team were ignoring a congressional subpoena — something ...
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Aug 12, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(ROLL CALL) House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa plans to sue Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday for refusing to provide documents related to the "Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling operation. "The committee expects to file the civil contempt suit against the attorney general Monday," a Republican source said. The suit will be filed ...
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Aug 11, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE DAILY CALLER) Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told The Daily Caller on Friday that if he were still atop the House of Representatives, he would defund the Department of Justice until Attorney General Eric Holder resigned or was fired. TheDC asked Gingrich if he would send Capitol Hill police to arrest Holder, ...
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Aug 9, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from THE BLAZE: A high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative currently in U.S. custody is making startling allegations that the failed federal gun-walking operation known as “Fast and Furious” isn’t what you think it is. It wasn’t about tracking guns, it was about supplying them — all part of an elaborate agreement between the U.S. government ...
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Aug 8, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(FOX NEWS) The Justice Department's inspector general has created a new position to help protect department whistleblowers and educate staff about them -- a move that comes in the wake of Operation Fast and Furious. The "Whistleblower Ombudsman" is believed to be one of the first such positions in the federal government, and its announcement comes ...
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Aug 6, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(EL PASO TIMES) A weapon tied to "Operation Fast and Furious" was seized in Tijuana in connection with a drug cartel's conspiracy to kill the police chief of Tijuana, Baja California, who later became the Juárez police chief, according to a U.S. government report. The firearm was found Feb. 25, 2010, during an arrest of a ...
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Aug 3, 2012 1 Comment ›› Toro520
Excerpted from Katie Pavlich - Townhall: Yesterday afternoon, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms released firearms tracing data to the press from Mexico between the years 2007-2011 during a roundtable discussion and presentation given by ATF Special Agent John Hageman. The data was released at ATF headquarters in Washington D.C. Reporters were allowed to bring ...
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Aug 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(FOX NEWS TODD STARNES) A veteran Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is facing suspension after he refused to release an illegal immigrant who was not considered a priority target under the Obama Administration’s new immigration enforcement policies, according to documents provided exclusively to Fox News. “They’re punishing law enforcement officers who are just trying to uphold ...
Continue ReadingAug 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: The man who served as the deputy director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives during Operation Fast and Furious resigned on Tuesday, an agency spokesman told The Associated Press on Thursday. William Hoover was one of the five ATF officials House oversight committee chairman Darrell Issa and ...
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Jul 26, 2012 No Comments ›› Snarky Basterd
Suddenly, Barack Obama wants to ban AK-47 “assault” weapons because they belong only on “the battlefield of war,” even though the LEGAL AK-47s in the U.S. are dressed-up 22-caliber semi-automatic rifles NOT used in war. New York's Nanny Mayor Mike Bloomberg wants America’s police to go on strike until the federal government adopts stricter gun ...
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Jul 23, 2012 2 Comments ›› Toro520
Washington Free Beacon: Lawmakers and government accountability advocates have expressed concern over a July 9 video message directed at Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents by ATF Acting Director Todd Jones, which they say is a veiled threat to government whistleblowers. “Choices and consequences means simply that if you make poor choices, that if you ...
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