ATF Project Gunrunner

Sheryl Attkinson resigns CBS

She deserves a lot of credit for her work on F+F.I saw the news of her resignation on The Blaze.Her reason,media bias and her work being buried.
I will be curious to see where she goes,and what she may reveal.
I do not think we have heard the last on F+F. 2014 might be an enlightening year.
 
Here's the story from Politico. I agree she deserves a lot of credit for her work on F&F/Gunrunner. The article indicates she is going to concentrate of finishing a book.
 
It I may be permitted to sum things up, the following comes to mind.

1.The entire criminal fiasco of Op.F & F climbs to the highest levels of government, where the present administration is concerned.

2. No way in hell will those ultimately responsible ever, in any way at all, be punished.

3. Congress critters who carry water for Obama et al, the DOJ under Holder, Obama's AG and the BATFE won't ever be called to task either, I truly hope I'm wrong here, don't think so though.

4. It strikes me as to sad to carry one with at the moment.

5. Almost forgot, the culpability of media in this criminal fiasco should not be forgotten either. With unfortunately few exceptions, media's culpability remains, emblazoned on the horizon, to its' everlasting shame.
 
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I never stopped following this issue, but I stopped following this thread more than a year ago. I'm shocked to come back now and find it still going. This whole debacle has just gotten ridiculous, but more ridiculous than the actions of the government itself is the complete lack of will to hold anyone accountable. It's a dangerous trend for party's to be more concerned with saving face than promoting justice.
 
This whole debacle has just gotten ridiculous, but more ridiculous than the actions of the government itself is the complete lack of will to hold anyone accountable.
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This is the tragedy of the entire Fast and Furious train wreck. Too bad Issa and crew lacked the stomach for reforming the BATFE.

Once it became widely known that the same BATFE agents who ran guns into Mexico under Operation Wide Receiver also ran Operation Fast and Furious the steam went out of the investigation.

The fact that Issa dropped the F&F hearings after the 2012 elections makes his investigation reek of a election year extravaganza. :mad:
 
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Issa is a politician

It's pretty clear to me he's used F&F as a means to promote his own career. I really don't think he's all that interested in the truth. He'll settle for something far less if he can advance his own ends.
 
You're right. If he wanted justice, he could have gone after folks on the ground in the Phoenix field division. Instead, he had to go directly after the US Attorney General, even though he didn't know the extent of Holder's knowledge of the operation.

The result? A marginal media blitz, followed by the President effectively shutting down the investigation via executive privilege. Issa got to play the inquisitor for the cameras, but in the end, nobody's been prosecuted and nobody is likely to be.
 
It's pretty clear to me he's used F&F as a means to promote his own career. I really don't think he's all that interested in the truth. He'll settle for something far less if he can advance his own ends.
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I said that here (very inelegantly, I might add :rolleyes:) almost exactly a year ago.
 
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The result? A marginal media blitz, followed by the President effectively shutting down the investigation via executive privilege. Issa got to play the inquisitor for the cameras, but in the end, nobody's been prosecuted and nobody is likely to be.
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I suggest that we ALL remember that when election time rolls around.
 
Issa might be something of an attention seeker, if you will, a ham actor, but he "seems" to have pursued the thing. At the risk of doing some members of congress an injustice, how much, or exactly what have the rest of them done.
 
It's pretty clear to me he's used F&F as a means to promote his own career. I really don't think he's all that interested in the truth. He'll settle for something far less if he can advance his own ends.
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I expect a degree of disingenuous behavior from any politician, Issa included. Any job that essentially requires you to be "what the people want" to be successful basically requires you to be something other than true to yourself. I don't really flinch at the grandstanding anymore. I just expect it.
 
As has been suggested, Congressman Issa might well be a self-serving "politician" in the very worst sense of the term.

That being said, and at the risk of repeating myself, perhaps looking dumb too, he at least has tried or seems to have tried, to do something, no matter how poorly he might have done it, even if self-aggrandizement played a role.

With this in mind, what have all those other members of congress, House and Senate done, what are they doing now?
 
With this in mind, what have all those other members of congress, House and Senate done, what are they doing now?
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The correct answer is nothing.

The US congress is composed of anti-gunners and those who talk of "supporting our Second Amendment rights" at re-election time, get re-elected and forget their promises.

IMO: Issa tried to make a difference in the 2012 elections by attacking the US attorney general; he failed.
 
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With this in mind, what have all those other members of congress, House and Senate done, what are they doing now?

The correct answer is nothing.

The US congress is composed of anti-gunners and those who talk of "supporting our Second Amendment rights" at re-election time, get re-elected and forget their promises.

IMO: Issa tried to make a difference in the 2012 elections by attacking the US attorney general; he failed.
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These "congress critters" also seem to have conveniently short memories. Look at how quickly they forget their oaths of office.
 
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Anyone else have their hypocrisy meter blow a fuse on that one?
In Holder's case I gave up on fuses long ago and just stuck a penny in the slot.

If I may, is a single penny sufficient? I would think not.
 
As what can probably be called a footnote to this whole thing, former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke has entered into an agreement with the Arizona Bar Association and accepted a reprimand from the state bar association for disclosing redacted versions of a couple of memos. Burke did so because thought the DOJ was making him the scapegoat. The agreement acknowledges that the OPR (Office of Professional Responsibility) had contacted the bar association and filed a copy of its report of its investigation into the matter. The OPR report itself is subject to a protective order. The agreement notes that Burke had already self-reported the matter to the bar association.

One might view the OPR's investigation and report to the bar association in a number of different ways. Perhaps it was sincerely seeking to uphold the ethical duty of confidentiality. Others might view it as an attempt to intimidate other employees with knowledge of matters making the Oval Office uncomfortable.
 
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