Oversight Chair Darrell Issa makes Justice Department perfidy part of the official Operation Fast & Furious record.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 29th at 09:30 PM  | 

A ways down below the fold is a description of a wiretap application by the Department of Justice (not the wiretap application itself) that had been provided to the House Oversight Committee by a whistle-blower, in response to Oversight’s investigation of the Justice Department’s Operation Fast & Furious debacle. The information found in it would normally be not accessible to anybody outside of the committee | Read More »

Reminder: the NRA will score Holder contempt vote.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 27th at 09:30 AM  | 

I’m not sure why I missed this at the time – the letter’s dated June 20th – but it’s official: “the NRA will consider this vote in [their] candidate evaluations.” That doesn’t guarantee a contempt charge passing the House, but only because a contempt charge was already guaranteed. For all the loose and charged rhetoric going around, if Speaker Boehner wasn’t going to let Oversight | Read More »

Jay Carney pretty much flubs everything about Operation Fast & Furious.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 21st at 04:30 PM  | 

This is going to be a very visual post, and, as usual, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney provides little if any actual semantic content, so I will simply summarize each video. First off, we have the standard obfuscation:

Meet Ronald C Machen, US Attorney for the District of Columbia.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 20th at 10:00 AM  | 

He hates his life – or at least, he’s about to hate his life. You see, if Congress votes today to hold US Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress today for Holder’s stonewalling on providing documents on the botched Operation Fast & Furious botched gunrunning scandal* then Mr. Machen is apparently the lucky individual who gets to bring charges up for a | Read More »

Is the Department of Justice sanitizing its connection to Media Matters for America?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 21st at 04:23 PM  | 

OK, here’s the background.  CJ Ciaramella is a reporter at the Washington Free Beacon, and he emailed the Department of Justice to find out if they had any response to the allegations being featured in Kate Pavlich’s latest book on the Operation Fast & Furious scandal (Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up).  Specifically, the allegation that there was a third | Read More »

Comparing the Colombian Prostitute Scandal to Operation Fast & Furious.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 19th at 09:30 AM  | 

So, we now what the priorities are when it comes to American law enforcement officials acting badly. Secret Service agents who patronize, then refuse to pay, Colombian prostitutes? People end up getting fired, investigated, and generally have their careers blighted, within days. DEA/DOJ officials who put cop-killing (and Mexican-civilian-killing) guns into the hands of Mexican narco-terrorist gangs? No firings. The bare minimum of non-Congressional investigations. | Read More »

Eric Holder explains why he should be fired over Operation Fast & Furious.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 29th at 11:00 AM  | 

Inadvertently (via @vermontaigne): And here’s the transcript, just to reinforce the point: Congressman: Do you believe the program was a mistake? Holder: I think it was a good, it was a bad attempt at trying to deal with a very pernicious problem where guns are flowing from the United States to Mexico. It was, in its execution, in its conception, it was fundamentally flawed. But, | Read More »

A question for ANY GOP Presidential campaign out there…

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 5th at 11:54 AM  | 

…why are none of them talking about Operation Fast & Furious? And when I say ‘talk’ I mean ‘bringing it up at every opportunity, complete with raised voices and angry tones.’ Seriously. This is an easy issue to be on the right side of: everyone agrees – now – that it’s bad to create a sting operation where you facilitate the running of guns to | Read More »

Fast & Furious update: Holder’s deputy CoS briefed in December 2010.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 30th at 09:30 AM  | 

There’s been a lot of commentary, obviously, about the information found in the latest Department of Justice Friday afternoon email dump with regards to the administration’s catastrophic Operation Fast & Furious. For those who need a reminder, OF&F was a program by which political appointees in the Obama administration ignored federal rules and basic common sense in order to facilitate the illegal resale of firearms | Read More »

AG Eric Holder calls Operation Fast & Furious ‘Reckless…’

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 8th at 03:30 PM  | 

The Obama administration – in the form of Attorney General Eric Holder – admitted today in Congressional testimony that Operation Fast & Furious program was ‘reckless,’ and will likely end up getting even more people killed. Rep. Ted Poe, R-TX: Would you agree that this operation was reckless? It was a reckless operation on the part of the United States? Attorney General Eric Holder: I | Read More »

Judiciary Chair Lamar Smith requests Special Counsel on possible Eric Holder perjury.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 4th at 03:00 PM  | 

But that’s a rather dry title, don’t you think? I much prefer BOOM goes the dynamite on Operation Fast & Furious. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, was sending a letter to President Obama on Tuesday arguing that Holder cannot investigate himself, and requesting the president instruct the Department of Justice to appoint a special counsel. The question is whether Holder committed perjury during | Read More »

Eric Holder caught in lie about when he knew about Fast & Furious.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 4th at 09:30 AM  | 

Permit me to summarize this CBS video on Operation Fast & Furious*: Eric Holder: I only heard about Operation Fast & Furious after it blew up in 2011! CBS: Here’s a list of memos that shows that you were briefed on Operation Fast & Furious, starting in July. Eric Holder: Oh. That Operation Fast & Furious. Yeah. Um. I, err, misspoke . Didn’t know the | Read More »

Darrell Issa calls for special prosecutor on Fast & Furious.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 23rd at 01:00 PM  | 

UPDATE: Carol Greenberg of Conservative Outlooks – who was on the original call – reported that Issa did not quite call for a special prosecutor.  This may be a nuance issue on Issa’s part: I was not able to participate in this particular call myself, so I couldn’t say authoritatively. Yes, my brothers and sisters: it’s that magical time in an administration where the old | Read More »

Operation Fast & Furious… Rocket Launchers?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 17th at 10:18 AM  | 

You’re going to see the below quoted text a lot, because it’s an excellent summation of the problem that we’re having with the Obama administration’s catastrophically incompetent Fast & Furious disaster*: Let’s review: When we first learned about Fast and Furious, the news was that a number of assault rifles had been sold to straw purchasers. Soon, we learned that the number was approximately 2,500 | Read More »

Fast & Furious coverup in Arizona.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 2nd at 09:30 AM  | 

(H/T: Hot Air) I believe that the quasi-pop reference here is “BOOM goes the dynamite:” Congressional investigators tell CBS News there’s evidence the U.S. Attorney’s office in Arizona sought to cover up a link between their controversial gunwalking operation known as “Fast and Furious” and the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Executive background summary, for those who don’t remember/aren’t following: Operation Fast & | Read More »

DEA now linked to Operation Fast & Furious.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 8th at 02:00 PM  | 

It would appear that the DEA does not want to be the fall guy in Operation Fast & Furious*, either: DEA head Michele M. Leonhart admitted in a letter to Senator Grassley (Judiciary) and Rep. Issa (Oversight) that her organization was in fact involved in the investigation, and provided support for it. This is a significant admission by Ms. Leonhart, given that (as Bob Owens** | Read More »

The Great Fast & Furious… Fast & Furious Data-Dump.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 27th at 02:00 PM  | 

The fact that the sordid details about Operation Fast & Furious (short edition: the federal government allowed guns to be illegally resold to Mexican narco-terrorists, who then proceeded to murder people with them) are all breaking during the debt ceiling situation is either the absolute best or the absolute worst luck for the Obama administration. On the one hand, the administration is not getting hammered | Read More »

Fast & Furious update: BATFE emails show stonewalling.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 24th at 12:15 PM  | 

(Via The Sundries Shack) Let me summarize this LA Times article:  Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered in December 2010 by Mexican narco-terrorists.  Agents of the BAFTE* investigating the shooting almost immediately discovered that some of the guns seized at the scene of the murder were guns that were supposedly being tracked by a joint BATFE/Department of Justice program called Fast & Furious; this | Read More »

Swine Flu Biden. (Or: “Re: Biden Foot-in-Mouth Report”)

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 30th at 09:23 AM  | 

Brother Pejman expands on this report that Vice President Biden is telling people to avoid public transportation and yank their kids out of schools. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy If President Obama wishes to handle this crisis by sending Vice President Biden to an undisclosed location until it’s over, well, sacrifices must be made. Moe Lane PS: Watch | Read More »

By the way, we’re having a trade war with Mexico.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 20th at 10:21 AM  | 

Yes, yes, I know: NAFTA’s supposed to prevent that sort of thing, but we’re having one anyway: Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington said pressuring politicians by hitting imports from states with key Democratic leaders with tariffs of up to 90 percent “is one the main considerations,” for the action, the Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday. The official list of products has | Read More »