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Fast and Furious – Will Obama Administration Ever Come Clean?

By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  April 19th, 2012 at 07:00 AM  | 

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The Ted Cruz campaign has released a new video detailing the timeline of the Fast and Furious scandal:


I’m an avid news consumer, but the Cruz video really drove home to me just how deeply the Obama administration is in it in this scandal. Full transcript is below the fold. Here’s more from the campaign:

Shocking revelations keep coming in the “Fast and Furious” scandal. How deep was the corruption? Did Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano lie? Have the mainstream media been complicit in a cover up? Will Attorney General Holder and the Obama Administration ever come clean?


Transcript:

Anderson Cooper: Newly uncovered memos saying about the botched ATF operation we’ve been reporting called Fast & Furious.
Sharyl Attkisson: Fast & Furious allowed thousands of weapons to be sold to suspected traffickers.
Cooper: Instead of tracing them, the ATF lost track of them…
Attkisson: …and fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
Unidentified man: The gangs have the money and the weapons to fight back.
Cooper: We’re not talking about a dozen or even a couple hundred guns.
Sheriff Paul Babeu: 200+ people have been killed by them.
Cooper: We’re talking about 1000′s of weapons.
Bob Schieffer: It appears that Attorney General Eric Holder knew a lot more about it than he recently told Congress.
Attkisson: Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial fast & furious operation…
Eric Holder (on May 3 2011): I probably heard about Fast & Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.
Attkisson: …as far back as July 2010.
Bill Hemmer: They think Holder is purposely misleading Congress.
Congressman Jason Chaffetz: At the very highest levels of the Department of Justice, they knew exactly what was happening.
Barack Obama: There…have been problems.
Ted Cruz: The Fast & Furious program we had our federal government selling firearms to violent criminals, firearms that were subsequently used to kill Americans. As someone who’s spent an awful lot of my adult life in law enforcement, I mean it’s just breathtaking. I called for us to investigate whether Eric Holder the Attorney General, what he knew and when he knew it. There needs to be accountability. If he deliberately lied to congress and if he did he should be removed from office and he should possibly face criminal prosecution. This is an administration that thinks it’s above the law, that it’s not bound by the law. And he will go around Congress and he will ignore the will of the people to force his agenda down our throats. And we have got to reign that in. We need strong conservative fighters in the senate. I am going to help lead this fight to stop the Obama agenda, to dramatically shrink the size and power of the federal government and restore our constitution. This is a fight for our country.

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  • radicalrighty

    This is rhetorical, but can you imagine the daily headlines and lead stories in the nightly news – every single day – if F&F had happened under GW?

    Hell, Bush’s AG Gonzales had to resign for firing US attorneys (a common practice), while Holder and Obama get a free pass on this outright, criminal act.

    The same media outraged over Watergate, Irangate, Attorneygate, refuse to even acknowledge this scandal which dwarfs those combined.

    • davesinsanantonio

      Oh, probably not.

      Because the mainstream media is no longer in the business of reporting the news. They are now in the business of political propaganda. They are as bad as Pravda in its heyday. Or, even as bad as Baghdad Bob.

      • avagreen

        Wake Up, America!

        http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/feedback/24-11-2009/110699-wake_up_america-0/

  • johnt

    and the big guys in D C are in effect,”reaching across the aisle”. Maybe ,just maybe Romney will pick up the ball.
    Congrats and good work to Cruz.

  • WmCraig

    If I remember correctly, and don’t get confused by the movie, it was Congressional hearings that undermined both Nixon and Agnew. It wasn’t that the media uncovered the problems but that that publicized the lies. Remember (for those of you who only know only the movie) the term non-denial denial?

    The media was following trailing the victims, like jackals on the hunt. it was Congress that was driving the heard causing the victims to make mistakes.

    Forget about the media, where is Congress. Why does Congreess allow Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano to spend one minute anywhere other than in front of a Congressional committee probing their actions. If you run out of fast and furious, I am certain there are plenty of White House mandates that also could be investigated. Marijuana law enforcement, Acorn ballot box stuffing, Hate crimes that don’t fit white on black scripting, etc…

    And while they are at it, what the fed is doing printing money is a crime or should be I think. Didn’t Obama put a criminal tax evader in charge of the fed and could this be why?

    It will take Congress through intense, non-stop investigation to make the politburo CZARs start flapping in the breeze. That flapping is what caught the media attention, and publicizing it is what drove medium revenues.

    • ihateliberals

      Even though the House is under a so called Republican majority you have to remember that the Republicans that are in charge are not conservatives. They belong to the Left-Wing of the Republican Party and they nor the Democrats have anything to gain by removing Holder. In the Nixon case you had a Democratic controlled congress after a Republican President. Big Difference.

    • vulturetransport

      It was Woodward & Bernstein digging. Nixon’s Republican congress was as incontinent and complacent as the present one. .

  • Locked and Loaded

    Obama knew exactly what he wanted and he chose Holder. Lindsey Gramm (the noisiest, as I remember it) and every other blithering idiot knew exactly who Holder was, as well. If you say they didn’t – well, they’re just more negligent than treacherous.

    Quite a list.

    Alexander (R-TN)
    Bennett (R-UT)
    Bond (R-MO)
    Chambliss (R-Ga)
    Collins (R-ME)
    Corker (R-TN)
    Graham (R-SC)
    Grassley (R-IA)
    Gregg (R-NH)
    Hatch (R-UT)
    Isakson (R-GA)
    Kyl (R-AZ)
    Lugar (R-IN)
    McCain (R-AZ)
    Murkowski (R-AK)
    Sessions (R-AL)
    Snowe (R-ME)
    Specter (R-PA)
    Voinovich (R-OH)

    • jlsankot

      but what does the list indicate? The reason I ask is that my senator, Grassley, is on it and I need to know what your message is. Thank you.

    • arthurjake

      Everyone with an R that is.

    • kev2m6

      Exactly what are you implying? John Kyl is probably the best spokesman for Republican and Conservative principles in the lineup. There are many RINOs on the list but completely shutting out the other party doesn’t mean you approved or had some advanced knowledge of how bad Holder would be. It was around this time when the mainstream media began referring to the GOP as the “Party of ‘no.’” So what, right? Consent is not an endorsement and many times approval comes back to be a bad idea. This was not totally bad. Holder has been so biased and such a disaster that his being Attorney General was an issue, not the issue, but an issue nonetheless in 2010 and almost certainly will be a positive for Romney in November. I understand two Americans died indirectly because of Holder but now the Congress is Republican and he cannot get away with approving ops that suit his agenda. The botched F & F shows utter incompetence in both Holder and the mainstream media for not covering it for 41 straight days above the fold. No one died at Abu Ghraib but two Americans died defending our borders and my wife has never even heard the term used without Vin Diesel being part of the discussion.

      • funwithknives

        and for Kyl to have voted’ Aye’, in light of Eric Holder’s public record does him no credit.
        Where was his objectivity or logic at? Does a vote not reflect your chosen beliefs or is it just ‘in passing’? What are we to suppose?

        Knowing that Eric was nowhere-near optimal,and pushing YES just is not makin’ it, hereabouts. He is The CLEO of America and this vote represents All Senator’s recognition of that fact.

        It ain’t American Idol ……….or The ‘X’ Factor

  • anjinconsulting

    If the proverbial poo were to hit the fan in this scandal, Captain Zero could, as the last act of his presidency, provide a presidential pardon for the people involved. If the scandal is kept on the horizon, it remains a viable campaign issue, and a distraction for the administration as well as consuming resources and assets in the media.

    After the election, and if no charges have been levied Captain Zero cannot issue a pardon. When he leaves office, the prosecution of Holder, et al can begin in earnest.

    Nothing would be more satisfying than to see those clowns and their minions stripped of their pensions and benefits as the result of being tried and convicted of failure to discharge their oath of office.

    It would be too much to hope for that some high ranking officials were tried and convicted of accessory to the murder of the agents they betrayed.

    • dad1011

      The Republicans had POTUS and both houses and what did they do?
      Circled the wagons and protected one of their own.

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    Congress/House forces them to take the bath on it via impeachment…

    Until the votes are there for impeaching successfully without the O being able to bribe his way out of it by buying votes to acquit then nothing will happen until after the election in November if ever etc.

  • gwalt

    Every day it becomes more and more evident that we need to put every morning “news” and evening “news” anchor in ads and calling them out. Do it by name, by face and by example. Run billboards, tv ads, whatever.
    Just calling them the “media” doesn’t work. They make it personal when it comes to us ( think Palin). We need to make it personal againstg them. The heck with cable— let MSDNC continue their hate and CNN their cough, cough, objectivity ( sorry Erick!).

  • snowshooze

    Forgetaboutit.

  • Mars the Avenger

    Chalk up another topic our genius POTUS knows nothing about, for being a Hah-vahd grad…. In order to function well, financial markets need investors and speculators. You cannot sell an instrument (bond, stock, etc) without a willing party to buy. Speculators fill that role, as they bet on the future performance of that instrument. Just a quick and dirty explanation, but if you are going to demonize speculators, you might as well abolish financial markets. They cannot function without speculators. Just another stupid approach to the issue, written by a third grade mind for the second grade minds which eagerly slop it up…. (no offense intended to real second and third graders, who likely have more on the ball than this administration and the 50%+ that put them in office…)

  • seventen

    I believe I heard the attorney(?) that told us that the Birth Certificate has nothing to do about whether a person is eligile to be our president. He doesn’t know the Constitution either?? What would you need to Prove you were born in the USA? Regardless of what he says, our Constitution states a person MUST BE A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN OF THE USA AND AN AMERICAN. CITIZEN.

    SO. I guess we have nothing to say, since a judge said that? Think we will just say YES SIR from now on to the illegal in our WH and do as he says. Isn’t there any person in our Federal government that has the GUTS to do something about this man in the WH who isn’t a legal American citizen and is not A natural born citizen? We will NEVER KNOW who the man really is in our WH!They will never tell truth about anything, they haven’t so far anyway. Maybe we could get Barney Fife to be our next president, he is just as smart.