“Given your upcoming testimony this Thursday,” Issa continued, “it is imperative that Congress be apprised of the true dimensions of these alleged operation immediately. Please arrange to provide a briefing to my staff no later than Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 5:00 pm to address these allegations.” [More]This evening's special Gun Rights Examiner report looks at yet another new dimension to the hearings facing the embattled (and soon to be overwhelmed?) Eric Holder.
Monday, December 05, 2011
Issa broadens DOJ investigation to include drug money laundering report
GOA sounds alarm on anti-gun judge nominee while NRA stays silent
NRA must, this afternoon, alert its members to oppose Halligan, and, as they failed to do with Eric Holder, put senators on notice that a confirmation vote will be scored against them—especially the so-called “pro-gun Democrats” we’ve heard so much about. It would take NRA all of an hour and the cost of emailing their membership list to make this happen. [More]This afternoon's Gun Rights Examiner column has an assignment that will take you about as much time to complete as it will to enter a comment complaining about why it's no use.
When the Time is Right
Hey Newt: When are you and the Stupid Party ever going to learn that you can't play kissy face with the enemy? For that alone you deserve to crash and burn.
In tangentially-related news, you'll never have to pull out if you don't put it in to begin with.
An Innovative Approach
There is a provision in the Kingpin Act for “authorized” law enforcement and intelligence activities, however the only procedure by which an Operation Fast and Furious program could have been “authorized” under the Kingpin Act was by the U.S. attorney general requesting a waiver (known within the Treasury Department as a Specific License), prior to any such operation being undertaken. [More]Oh, that is good!
Kind of like the only way they could have gotten around ITAR provisions would have been if State had authorized it.
The Inability of "Authorized Journalists" to Let Go of a Delusion
Operation Fast and Furious — the “botched” gun-tracking program run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — did, in fact, deliberately allow some 2,000 high-powered weapons to be sold to Mexican drug cartel agents and then waltzed across the border and into the Mexican drug wars — just as Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa, who are leading the congressional investigations, have charged all along. [More]So if it did what it was designed to do, and that was to deliberately allow guns to walk--why would you still characterize it as a "'botched' gun trafficking operation"?
[Via Michael G]
How many have died from DEA’s ‘Project Buckwalker’?
Hey, you can’t make an omelet without scrambling some eggs. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner commentary wonders if there is any criminal enterprise our federal overlords are not up to their necks in.
We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
Bridgeton Police Chief Mark Ott is of the opinion that no matter what is done to stop them, criminals will always be able to gain possession of a gun if they really want it.No duh.
“Here’s one way to look at it. If criminals can import tons of illegal narcotics into the country they can import tons of foreign firearms,” he said. [More]
