The bloody malfeasance of Eric Holder and Barack Obama; Plus: Who is Acting DOJ IG Cynthia Schendar?
The other night on Hannity, I said we need an “Occupy Justice” campaign to protest the deadly corruption and incompetence that have infested our Justice Department from Day One of the Obama administration (vid here). A friend on Twitter wrote back that what we really need is a “Liberate Justice” movement to free Americans of Eric Holder and Barack Obama’s bloody malfeasance.
House GOP Oversight and Government Reform leaders are keeping up the pressure. They’ve released a new YouTube video to re-cap the week’s fast and felonious developments:
WASHINGTON, DC – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released a new video asking a simple question: who is accountable for the Obama Justice Department’s failed Operation Fast and Furious? Oversight Committee Watchdogs and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have pushed Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department for a full accounting of the deadly program, but this investigation has been meet with silence, stonewalling and spin. New documents, however, show that Holder received at least five weekly memos – beginning in July 2010 – that contradict the Attorney General’s May 3, 2011 sworn testimony denying knowledge of Fast and Furious until just weeks before.
“Attorney General Holder and the Justice Department have failed to honestly answer clear and legitimate questions about Operation Fast and Furious,” said Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA). “Americans deserve to know the truth.”
Spread the word:
Programming note: Tonight on Hannity, Fox News will update and re-air its Fast and Furious special. Tune in at 9pm Eastern.
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This week:
Scandal Watch: Fast and Furious round-up
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The American Thinker sheds light on acting inspector general at DOJ Cynthia Schnedar. Whole thing is must-read. Foxes guarding the henhouse.
Since the release of the damaging memos, Justice Department spokespeople have given several spurious reasons to explain Holder’s statements: that he was confused during his testimony, that he thought he was being asked about another investigation, that he doesn’t see every memo that passes his desk. And after calls from Congress for a special counsel, a Justice spokesman attempted to fend off that plan by saying that once Holder had learned of the operation’s “questionable tactics” earlier this year, he then “promptly asked the inspector general to investigate the matter.”
Cynthia A. Schnedar is the acting inspector general, and just this past month, in yet another stunning revelation, it was discovered that she had released secret audio tapes of candid conversations from last March between Hope McAllister, an ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) agent in the Phoenix office, and Andre Howard, owner of a Phoenix-area gun shop, who had been authorized by the ATF to sell weapons to known Mexican cartel members in the botched sting operation.
On one of the tapes, they discuss a third Fast and Furious rifle that was found at the scene of the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in a remote area of southern Arizona last December. It had been widely reported that only two rifles were found at the scene, but recent reports tell of a cover-up. The third rifle would have led to an FBI informant.
As for the tapes, it was discovered by congressional investigators that Schnedar had inexplicably given a copy to the U.S. attorney’s office in Phoenix before she had even reviewed them. The tapes then ended up being shared with the ATF office there. Both those agencies are among the many entities under investigation in the ever-expanding scandal.
So just who, one may wonder, is Acting Inspector General Cynthia Schnedar?
Until last January, she was deputy inspector general at the Justice Department, having served in that post since June of 2010. When longtime Inspector General Glenn Fine retired from his post in January of this year, Schnedar, as had been expected, was named as acting inspector general on January 29.
…It turns out that Ms. Schnedar has long and close ties to Mr. Holder. According to her biography on the Justice Department website, she became assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. in 1994. Eric Holder had become the U.S. attorney in Washington the previous year, so he in effect was Schnedar’s boss from 1994 until 1997, when he left to become President Clinton’s deputy attorney general. Holder would become a key player in the scandalous pardons of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich and members of the Puerto Rican nationalist terrorist group known as FALN.
But during Ms. Schnedar’s tenure before Holder had departed, it happened that they had ended up working a number of cases together. According to the LexisNexis website, there were at least fourteen of them, usually at the appellate level. For Holder, it was more than just “in name only”; in some of those cases, they apparently co-filed legal briefs.
In one case, they had represented the ATF. In another, they represented both the ATF and DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), an agency that has now also been linked to Fast and Furious.
Whenever either Eric Holder or President Obama is pressed on Fast and Furious, both refer to the Justice Department’s internal investigation that happens to be headed by Ms. Schnedar.
…In a recently released letter to Schnedar, Issa and Senator Grassley noted that the investigator’s actions had “undermined and obstructed” their investigation (the Oversight Committee had also obtained copies of the tapes), and they demanded answers concerning her behavior.
After the first tape was made public by CBS News as a result of Schnedar’s actions, her office released a highly dubious explanation: that the U.S. attorney’s office in Phoenix needed them for the pending prosecution of drug traffickers.
There are several questions about Ms. Schnedar that beg to be answered.
First, as she well knew, the U.S. attorney’s office in Phoenix was also a target of the investigation. Both the U.S. attorney and the assistant U.S. attorney have since left because of the scandal.
Second, should Ms. Schnedar have immediately recused herself from the Fast and Furious investigation because of her long and deep ties to Mr. Holder?
Third, when Ms. Schnedar began her employment as assistant U.S. attorney in Washington in 1994, was it Mr. Holder (then the U.S. attorney) who hired her?
Lastly, Federal Election Commission records show that Schnedar donated to the Democratic National Committee in 2005. Does she now think that was proper?
On a related note: I recently contacted Ms. Schnedar to ask those very questions. She angrily told me to call her office. No answers have been forthcoming from either source, including her spokesman, Jay Lerner.
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The fall from grace will be breathtaking to behold. I’m picking my seat now. Hey MSM, about time to pigpile don’t you think, or are you all going down with them? (munching popcorn) More cheese Gromit!
Thank you SO much Michelle for keeping us updated on this. It is wonderful Fox is doing a great job keeping this before the public also. Thank God for Issa and Grassley. I pray for their safety because they are dealing with real slug slimes, bho, holder, and team!
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Mo’ bettah!
Yes, thanks for keeping us updated Michelle. This scandal may grow so big it will be impossible for the MSM to ignore. Justice Dept. officials are trying to cover their useless butts now.
We can’t waste any time on such trite issues. We must pass this Jobs Bill now! Nothing more important facing the nation than saving my job Now!
if they truly crash & burn, I will treat myself to a new piece of jewelry.
What a coinkidink that Pornstache Holder was/is a central figure in two of the most malodorous administrations ever.
Michelle; thank you for posting this video. Please keep after it. There are dead Mexicans, dead Americans, laws broken, lies told, wagons circled, and stone walls built. The truth has to come out as to who knew what, why they did it, and what the intent of the operation is. We can accept nothing less.
Dig in deep, girl.
where is chief inspector clouseau when you need him?
Yeah Rogue, check out the relationships between the managers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their ties to said administrations too.
And per ted c, I have been saying for a long time that with dead people to account for, when will the charges be extended to those that facilitated those homicides? Can the entire administration be indicted under RICO statutes?
Sounds to me like it is time to have this IG testify under oath as well. Not that it will matter now, but it may matter more after the 2012 elections.
Sounds to me like it is time to have this IG testify under oath as well. Not that it will matter now, but it may matter more after the 2012 elections.
I was thinking about the CBS reporter Sharyl Attkinson and how she has been silenced by CBS as of let (possibly due to pressure from the WH). I wonder how many reporters would love to go after this investigation, but get shut down by their editors or the top bosses at the newspaper/tv news station?
Anything less than a prison sentence for these crooks is unacceptable.
As each rock gets turned over and exposed to the light, the aroma of rank corruption in the Obama administration grows more and more strong.
Holder is going to try to get away with claiming his recent testimony was incorrect because he thought the Committee was asking him about when he knew of the illegal aspects of Fast and Furious, not the case generally. He is likely to get away with it.
Holder was notorious at the end of the Clinton administration for facilitating the pardons for Rich and the FALN members. Those pardons, along with those for some Hasidic Jews, who were terrorists, as I recall, were favors to Marc Rich’s wife, a close “friend” of Bill’s and to buy votes in NY for Hillary’s run for the Senate.
Holder was highly tainted back then in Y2K. He obviously survived in the Bush administration. He should have been canned in 2001. Then he gets appointed AG by Obama in 2009.
Holder has been corrupt for a long time IMHO. It’s about time he got stopped. I think he’s got some real secrets shielding him and that resulted in his AG appointment by Obama. Why did Obama pick him out of all the other attorneys he knows well? We may never know the truth.
waste of time. corruption requires secrecy.
I will too, something shiny for my motorcycle.
You can bet your last dollar that the White House is pressing its knee in the neck of any news organization it thinks will bend to it’s intimidation.
But the goal of Issa here should be to get as many of Obama’s people as possible to testify under oath. A little payback for what was done to Mr. Libby for sure. But it may be the best way to get convictions of any kind of these criminals.
Treat We Much!
Pravda is revving up the Wall St protests to try and drown out the truth.
Gosar’s ‘accessory to murder’ statement comes to mind.
American Thinker said:
That’s a rhetorical question, right?
Naturally this just a small part of the dirty WH that needs cleaning, if we as a country can last long enough to get the best cleaner in the country in the WH.
It’s going to get very ugly before it gets better, not being negative, it’s the way it will go by looking at the hate and violence building in the streets now.
Sure was cool to elect a Marxist black man as president.
As much as I appreciate MM’s coverage of this scandal and all the background, I very much appreciate Ms. Attkison’s continuing to speak out and dig for answers because she will be listened to by the folks that don’t watch Fox News or read conservative blogs. I heard this morning that NBC hasn’t covered one moment of this story since APRIL!! That’s outrageous, but knowing the MSM, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
I hope Ms. Attkison also has some security because it sounds like she may need to protect herself in the days and weeks to come.
Sunlight – the best disinfectant, but it doesn’t do any good if the GOP backs down from this. I hope Grassley & Issa continue to question, probe, investigate and stay on this underhanded, sneaky administration!
God I hope this presidency and administration have cured America of “white guilt”. Judge by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.
Everyone forgets:
March 2009:
“WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton brought mea culpas to Mexico Wendesday for the guns and money flowing south from the U.S. that have fueled the bloody drug wars between the cartels and the Mexican army.”
Now how was PIAPS involved in this?
Why has the executive order Sock Puppet signed in the middle of the Fast and Furious scandal never reported?
Was that executive order the whole reason for Fast and Furious and to show the guns were traveling over the border in record,uncontrolled numbers by renegade gun dealers when the Federal Gov were the actual perpatrators?
These amd many other questions need to be answered.
Anyone?
Is it possible this is the very reason Rahm split the whole scene? Not to credit him w/ in any way having a conscience, but perhaps he found the whole enterprise as being too risky?
Where’s the upside in all this? certainly would have been my question. Not to implicate him unfairly, he may have had no knowledge of this.
“Does your Dog bite? No….But the People do!”
The only reason we can’t have an occupy the DOJ is because all of us who care are working.
When the people have elected the Marxist equivalent of Al Capone as President the US Seante rolls over and allows Capone to appoint Frank Nitti as the Attorney General, you can pretty much assume that the Rule of Law will pretty much die quickly.
You can even expect the Inspectors General to be corrupted.
We can expect vilolence againt people like us that will be unreported by the MSM and uninvestigated by any and all Federal law enforcement agencies.
There is no logical reason for allowing guns from U.S. gun dealers to walk without interferance to Mexico, except to bolster claims that our unrestricted gun sales are fueling Mexican violence.
What they did not bank on, was the death of one of our own Border Patrol Agents and some of those guns being left at the scene. Now the lid has been blown off and it isn’t going to be pretty.
With Holder, Obama and Clinton being able to cite numbers in the thousands to justify their claims, they have the fodder to work at restricting firearms here, a major tenent of the Left’s agenda. Recall Obama telling Sarah Brady recently that “we are working under the radar” (for gun control).
It would also provide “proof” Clinton could use to guarantee our agreement for the International Small Arms Treaty, while the Senate is controlled by Harry Reid and his lackeys. The name of the game is incremental gun control, by whatever means is available.
Regretably, they will get away with it. The fall guys are already being lined up and sacrificed. It will never result in the fall of the people at the top.
P.S. Whoever the Republican nominee is should be given private security. At this point I would not even trust the Secret Service to properly protect a political enemy of this regime.
The entire apparatus should be assumed to be compromised.
I just fired off an email to Rep. Issa (my congressman) to keep up the good fight until the whole truth comes out. Subsequent consequences would be nice, too.
If they truly crash and burn, I won’t need to buy a new skillet!
But I will buy champaigne or a new bottle of Bailey’s.
The next appropriations bill out of the House should include the financing for more Federal prisons. I would love to see them start to fill up after 2012.
Not until we cure America of liberal white professors and public school teachers.
Flyoverman said:
Compromised, generous! It’s Friday.
Maybe he borrowed his looks from David Axelrod – now THAT’s a pornstache! And that greasy hair. mmm, mmm, mmm. not.
I would also love to hear about Eric Holder’s excuses for dropping voter intimidation case against Black Panthers as well as his reason to lie about the gun runnings.
Boys, I think we need to break out that dang waterboard thingy.
I find it curious that the former DOJ IG, Glenn Fine (age 55), “decided to pursue outside opportunities” in November of 2010 just as things were heating up internally on the Fast and Furious front. He left in January of 2011 and proceeded to do….Nothing! He didn’t land another job until September 2011 with Dechert LLP.
Clearly, it didn’t take a Rhodes Scholar (yes, he is one) to predict where this was headed. And what this former Clinton appointee was going to be asked to do (or not do).
So, in other words she is a devoted marxist apparachik. Does she realize that she is being set up to take a fall? If so, is there a quid pro quo? Will she get an elegant dacha on Lake Michigan and $10MM in a Grand Cayman account?
Harry Bailey’s? I did not know he was in the import export business of fine spirits.
It was either that, rat out Obama and Holder, or eat a bullet. He chose “outside opportunities”.
Holder and the others that came up with Fast and Furious knew the operation would be uncovered.
I’m sure they planned an escape route.
Holder won’t go to jail or anyone at the top.
I can smell the DC bacon frying from down here in Tennessee. mmmmmm mighty tasty.
Shut your damm pie hole Paratus! They must go down they must go down hard. Go get a stiff drink and then get back on the line. I’ll bring you some grenades and ammo. We can talk about liquor, women, dogs, and the cost of iPad labor in China.
So, where on your body, exactly, will you be wearing this jewelery? (Rogue wanted me to ask you that.)
… my little coquette.
OccamsRazor said:
Oh I wouldn’t say ‘nothing’. Checking to make sure your life insurance policies and Will are in order takes up a fella’s time ya’ know?
Much of O’Drama & Crew remind me of those guys on campus that “were going to pull off something totally awesome that no one else is ‘in’ on!” When in fact punishments had already been determined, expulsion letters written.
On October 7th, 2011 at 2:07 pm, RedDog said:
Mexico should gather every victim of border gun violence in the last 2 years as well as every family affected by this in the US and raise holy bloody murder until the vermin that knew and abetted this are perp walked into court and prison.
Um.. humina.. humina..
Much most poltroon we much?
Clousseau: “Monsieu, I thought you said your dog doesn’t bite!”
Hotel clerk: “He doesn’t! That’s not my dog!”
yaymm @#15 stated in part:
One of the main reasons that the Bush admin had so much trouble — right from the get-go and ended up tanking – was that they kept a large number of Clintonistas on in important and influential positions where they could continue their anti-American activities — Bush could of easily gotten rid of them — the consequences of electing a RINO — same crap would ensue if Romney gets elected.
I’m partial to rings–I’ve been told I have beautiful hands–but a nice necklace would do too. I can probably find a space in my safe.
“But resist, we much… we must… and we will much… about… that… be committed.” –Al.
This is too big to just fade away…and Holder’s life will be made miserable as a result. Even if Staceycakes doesn’t get that cool jewelry, I think Holder and a bunch of his cronies, including that lady IG idiot, along with creepy Hillary, have “a lot of ‘splaining to do.” This is bigger than any of them thought it was going to be. Remember, Hillary is right in the middle of this as she is endorsing the UN’s right to disarm American citizens and disregard the US Constitution. People who think Hillary should be President do not understand what a Marxist she is.
This could well portend the end of Obeyme’s presidency–we can holy hope.
RedDog #45: I want them to go down hard.
I want to be there to help Flyoverman check them out in Leavenworth on a daily basis.
At boot camp, in the CG, one of the punishments was to pound rocks on the breakwater. I’d like to see Holder and Obama spending 8 hours a day breaking big rocks into little rocks.
My point was, and is, they had to have an escape plan so they wouldn’t end up breaking rocks in the hot sun.
Be careful there RedDog Mrs. RedDog might be reading your posts. She might not cotton to you talking about other women. The more ammo, and grenades I can go with that.Yeah the getting together and swapping lies would be fun too!
FirstSkirt,
Correct, and right about now they’re all standing in a circle firing shots.
“You said nothing was going to come of this! That things were so chaotic down there no one would even know the difference? Well guess what!”
When this is all said and done they’ll have set their Gun Control movement back 30 years. Oh and cost them the WH.
Whiskey Tango ..?
Coasties have a boot camp?
Until low level ATF agents face prosecution, they will continue to assist the cover-up (just like the sniper at Ruby Ridge) protecting their superiors.
“OK kid, point toward the ocean.”
“Over there.”
“Good, we’re done here. Welcome to the Coast Guard.”
*As I have said before, shame on those RINO rat bastards that voted to confirm Holder; They, like the Demoprogs, have blood on their hands!
“Okay, kid. This is a harbor buoy, and this is marine growth. Here’s a scraper.”
Hangfire and AlohaGuy:
haha Don’t make me go to Hawaii about those comments. Unless there’s beer in the refrigerator.
You’ll have to fly, because it’s waaaay over the horizon. You might steam in circles without any visual bearings.
bjc,
With a few noteworthy exceptions:
The things some of us do to feel better about ourselves eh?
The Corruption Continues, and Continues, and Continues. Like Rosie Odonnell says, “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!”
Don’t you suppose that OWS is receiving a lot more coverage right now because of F and F? The administration needs to distract from accessory to murder. Look who is behind OWS now….MoveOn, AFL-CIO, SEIU…all friends of Dear Leader. Don’t you think the MSM becomes complicit in this cover-up by not reporting on it? They ignore F and F. Agree, thank goodness for Michelle, William LaJeunesse, Sharyl Atkinsson, and the Sipseystreetirregulars.com. Keep the heat on!
#29 yaymm said:
There is no logical reason for allowing guns from U.S. gun dealers to walk without interferance to Mexico, except to bolster claims that our unrestricted gun sales are fueling Mexican violence.
Not hardly, What if a Cloward-Piven strategy needs the Mexican government to fall and hordes of Mexicans to swarm over the southern border?
Congressman Issa Sir, “WE THE PEOPLE” want to know when ERIC HOLDER is going to be ARRESTED and put on TRIAL for PERJURY and TREASON?? ?
“WORK”—————–The fleebegging liberal WELFARE parasites new “N” word.
The democratic ticket represents the unions, the fat, the welfare moocher, the under achiever, the non-achiever, the lazy, the illegal’s, the subversion of the constitution, the uneducated and the communists. Did I miss anything?
Well what will be the Friday dump that get three days of no news? Check out that going down! bho and team are going to take a three day week-end and have to get the msm and d’s in line? My little bloobpumper is all a twitter, bho and team will get the boot? I just ask God to give me health to vote against bho.
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Holder should never have been confirmed. Why do GOP Senators feel obliged to extend courtesy when it is never reciprocated?
The Gutless Obsequious Pussies never learn. They got nuked yesterday. Tomorrow they’ll be back to reaching across the aisle.
You forgot the gun banners.
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HI FLYOVERMAN–*30. Good thinking. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they’re not out to get you!
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John Bibb
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This man, Eric Holder famously called us “A nations of cowards”. In reality, it is Mr. Holder that is a coward. He is afraid to admit of the truth.
Only 470 days until the end of this incompetent and corrupt administration.
Holder’s stench was all over the Waco whitewash too.
The whole administration is corrupt, root and branch. Why America thought a Chicago politician would bring “transparency” to the White House or “post-partisanship” to Washington is a tribute to the gullibility of voters. No more. Remember the big deal about the Bush administration replacing federal prosecutors? In retrospect, was that really such a big deal, since they were legally allowed to do it, versus what Holder’s crew has done?
The scandal just keeps coming relentlessly and multiplying exponentially. Half of this would have seen a Repub admin impeached three times over and we get a few peeps out of the lame/blame/shame stream media-intelligentsia. When can we officially proclaim this the HoldOVER era?
It’s ok…we are used to flying in circles too…doing SAR over the Navy ships during their “man overboard” drills.
Seems like their chiefs didn’t realize they were supposed to use Oscar the dummy…not the junior boatswain’s mate.
DC’s new Jaime Gorelick?
I wish I could be more upbeat but I do not see Romney or Perry taking on the critical role of “House Cleaner Par Excellent” I just don’t sense the fire in the belly.
This administration is not much more than a “New Chicago” over layering the Old WDC. It really is hard to imagine that anything could out-corrupt the DC crowd, but I think it is happening.
On a positive note, maybe once the election is over the MSM will lose enough of its influence such that it can achieve little or none of its present levels of obfuscation. We The People may then be better able to get at the root of some of the various “Dog Piles” this group has created in this brief 4 years.
We can only hope that whoever America choses will in fact take it to heart to really, really clean up this stinking mess we call WDC
The MSM must definitely be investigated as well as the politicians. There is an incestuous relationship there.