GRE Round Up for June 9

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Methow ranchers indicted for wolf killings as battle lines drawn

• BREAKING: 2nd ‘Fast and Furious’ hearing set; Grassley, Dodson to testify!

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Schools left defenseless, while Education Department conducts paramilitary raids

Panic Mode

Good. When people panic, they make mistakes. And they talk. [Read]

There's No Need to Fear...

Underdog is here.  [Read]

Faceoff

U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has set up a faceoff with Barack Obama's U.S. Justice Department over the agency's refusal to respond to demands from Congress for information about federal Operation Fast and Furious that apparently maneuvered dangerous weapons into the hands of Mexican drug lords. [Read]

With color commentary from...uh...well, you'll know him when you hear him.

Thought I posted this yesterday and just found it still in "drafts."

Close, But No Cigar

An arsenal found in Mexico included at least five assault rifles that U.S authorities trace to a federal operation gone badly awry, according to government documents.

The discovery appears to confirm for the first time fears cited by Republican lawmakers that a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation called Fast and Furious failed to stop guns from ending up with drug gangs in Mexico. [More]

I was guilty of using "gone awry" myself early on.

And it's not really that they "failed to stop" the guns, is it?

Second ‘Gunwalker’ hearing to ‘examine tragic consequences of Fast and Furious'

“The reckless decisions of ATF and Justice Department officials in Operation Fast and Furious have devastated lives and put fear into communities on both sides of the border,” Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) explained. “By exploring this Justice Department sanctioned program, we can better understand the flawed process surrounding the genesis and implementation of an operation that put guns into the hands of criminals.” [More]

He's going to have Grassley testify. And relatives of Brian Terry. And Dodson.

I just got this alert from the Oversight Committee press secretary via email, and it certainly warranted an immediate reaction via a second Gun Rights Examiner column today.

Hopefully, you'll agree this news warrants spreading, and will do so by sharing the link.

Police continue to dispel myth they are ‘only ones’ trusted enough to bear arms

These apples didn’t spoil overnight.  And as I said, I have thousands upon thousands of examples amassed over the years, many of them corroborating that misbehavior has been either widespread or widely tolerated, and that those who were not engaging in it looked the other way and kept quiet about it. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column challenges Josh Sugarmann to see whose [list] is longer.

This Day in History: June 9

A detachment of five hundred men from the Virginia and Maryland divisions, with three days provision and their blankets unincumbered with any other baggage, to march tomorrow morning at four o'clock to relieve the detachment under Colonel Stewart...[More]