Kenneth Melson’s Fast & Furious Firing?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 19th at 02:00 PM  | 

Word is out that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms acting head Kenneth Melson is going to be sacrificed some time this week over Operation Fast & Furious: The shakeup shows the extent of the political damage caused by the gun-trafficking operation called Fast and Furious, which used tactics that allowed suspected smugglers to buy large numbers of firearms. Growing controversy over the program has | Read More »

OBAMABUS FEEDS ON FRANKLIN RAINES!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 18th at 07:49 PM  | 

Hit him again, Johnny: The campaign puts out a statement from former Fannie Mae chief Franklin Raines, disowning ties to Obama, after a McCain ad attacked him for the ties. The Washington Post reported — with the kind of blind sourcing that suggests the source was Raines — that Raines had “taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing | Read More »