It is horrendous that our government would cover up the murders of Americans by Mexican cartels, merely to help politicians get reelected and hide their efforts to destroy our gun industry through Fast and Furious. [More]
Tell me about it.
As for the Trump administration, who do you think is withholding information despite opportunistic promises to the contrary?
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And in related news, there was an article published by ammo.com on F&F that somehow managed to omit both your and Mike's contributions to bring the whole sordid mess to light.
I know. I wrote to them a few days back when they sent me the link asking me to feature it here:
Sorry. Not this time.
I routinely am generous in promoting your stuff. And while I don't demand quid pro quo a little return consideration once in a while would go a long way into making it seem like it's not a one-way street. Who do you think broke F&F, came up with all the early (and many subsequent) discoveries, advised whistleblowers who was OK to talk to and educated the reporters who went on to write books and win awards for it, and who do you think is currently teamed with Brian Terry's brother in legal action to press for new admissions? Who do you think Michelle Malkin was referring to when she put Juan Williams in his place over "real journalists" vs. "just a blogger"?
I know Eric Holder was held in contempt. Mike Vanderboegh and I were the guys Lou Dobbs interviewed for filing a bar complaint against him over that. Grassley only got involved after I pressured him. Ditto for Issa. I did practically all of the early reporting on Mike Detty and Wide Receiver and did the forward for his book.
Forgive me if I seem overly-sensitive, but Vanderboegh and I broke a monster story and have been continually bigfooted out of any acknowledgment to where we don't even appear in the Wikipedia entry-- and his dying of cancer penniless and unrecognized is something I still have a problem with. Especially considering the risks we took and the sheer amount of work we did that was then used by others-- I can't even begin to tell you how many developments we broke that were ignored until someone from a bigger outlet posted it a week later and then got all the attention.
I'm tired of being squeezed out of my own story and am not going to pass on what presents itself as a comprehensive report that ignores how anybody even learned about this stuff in the first place.
I hope you understand.
Sorry if that seems petty on my part. I thought I'd resolved myself to accepting that the true history will probably be lost until such time as history, which is written by the victors, was corrected. I didn't bring it up as a separate blog post because of "sour grapes," but since you brought it up and since very few read comments, I decided responding to your comment was not inappropriate.
Let's not put too fine a point on it, David. When the various media outlets, some of them actually pro 2A, publish facts that you and Mike developed, without acknowledging you two and your ATF sources THE BASTARDS AND IN SOME CASE BITCHES ARE STEALING YOUR WORK!
In my book, plagiarism, taking to work of others and passing it off as your own, is a particularly despicable crime.
You and your efforts are valued, David, although at times it might not seem like it.
I do believe in this case-- and in most, actually -- our part is simply not known for the reasons stated. Unless you're a WoG regular, pretty much no one else has told you.
No, you're not being petty at all, David. I know how much effort you and Mike went through to get somebody, anybody, to pay attention to this.
And given that none of those responsible have seen an indictment, much less a jail cell, the additional insult of having your contribution erased from the record...well, I'd be much more than "overly sensitive" about it.
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