Lesson in how the administration attempts to manipulate the press and news coverage: Fast and Furious email to Attorney General Eric Holder from a communications adviser, Oct. 5, 2011 [emphasis added below]. (President Obama withheld this email under executive privilege but it was recently released as a result of a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch […]
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IG Issues Long-Awaited Grenade-Walker Report
(Above image: Evidence photos turned over to Congress show a stash of grenade parts, fuse assemblies and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition in “Grenade Walker” case.) A long-awaited Inspector General report faults U.S. law enforcement officials for allowing a dangerous drug cartel grenade trafficker to operate unfettered, endangering the public’s lives, much as the Bureau […]
Election Eve “Fast & Furious” Document Dump by Justice Dept.
It could be the ultimate Washington “document dump.” Instead of turning over a heap of potentially damaging documents to Congress on the usual Friday afternoon as government agencies tend to do in the hope of attracting as little media attention as possible, the Justice Department turned over a massive set of documents on election eve. […]
Why the Left Wing Blog Media Matters Gets So Worked Up About Facts
Why the liberal blog Media Matters works itself up into such a tizzy over any reporting (and reporters) that it perceives as a threat to its interests. But I think most anybody who’s even heard of them already knew this. Read article on Hillary Clinton’s mention of Media Matters
Justice Dept. List of Withheld Fast & Furious Docs is 1,323 Pages Long
List shows documents on wide-ranging subject matter being withheld. Emails between Attorney General Eric Holder and his wife Sharon Malone, and his mother, are withheld under executive privilege. Also withheld are emails between Obama administration spokesmen regarding news articles. For the first time, the Department of Justice has provided a detailed description of 15,662 Fast […]
Here’s Info Justice Dept. Won’t Give Congress in Fast & Furious
For more than two years, the Justice Department has ignored Congressional requests to disclose where all of the Fast and Furious weapons are turning up. Now, documents withheld from Congress, but provided to me by a source, give a predictably disturbing picture of the violent landscape in which the weapons are being used. Uriel Patino […]
Judicial Watch Sues Phoenix P.D. in Fast and Furious
The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch is suing the Phoenix Police Department for records on a July 29, 2013 gang-style assault to see if weapons used were sold in the Justice Department’s ill-fated Fast and Furious case. In Fast and Furious, federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) allowed thousands of […]
Justice Dept. Must Release Fast and Furious Doc Log in One Month
Calling the government’s arguments for “even more time…unconvincing,” a federal court has ordered the Justice Department to turn over a list of withheld Fast and Furious documents by Oct. 22. Attorney General Eric Holder had sought a delay until the day before the midterm elections. Separately, Obama administration officials revealed that Holder intends to announce […]