Much of the media has moved quickly to close the books on Attorney General Eric Holder’s role in the Fast and Furious scandal, based on this week’s report from the Justice Department’s Inspector General’s office, headed by Michael E. Horowitz. Operation Fast and Furious, for those who may not be familiar with it, was/is a DOJ program designed to coerce otherwise honest gun dealers into providing illegal firearms to Mexican drug cartels. The supporting idea was that the DOJ would then track the firearms, and DEA would make arrests. Well, our inept government LOST track of between 1,500 and 2,000 illegally sold firearms (depending upon whose statistics one believes) - at least one of which was used to kill a Border Patrol Agent in Arizona, and various others used to kill several thousand Mexicans in Mexico.
But for many others, the 471-page report is nothing more than an effort by an employee to exonerate his boss.
The inspector general's report identified "serious failures" on the part of the Justice Department, but cleared Attorney General Eric Holder of having any knowledge of the operation. EXCUSE ME?? Isn't it HIS JOB to know and control what his underlings are doing?? Maybe his "job" is simply to collect a paycheck from the taxpayers... as do many (most) of the unnecessary appointees of our present administration?
Testifying before a House committee Thursday,
Inspector General Michael Horowitz said, "There needs to be supervision;
there needs to be oversight," and such operations should be referred at
the start to "the highest levels." And, it's the Attorney General's JOB to insure his people understand and follow the "Chain of Command" when implementing and/or enforcing new directives. Nothing of significance - such as Operation Fast and Furious - ever happens without blessings from the TOP. Someone below Holder must have drafted a proposal - which was reviewed by his/her immediate supervisor, and then forwarded through several higher levels of intermediate supervision - until it reached the DOJ's "head monkey", Eric Holder. Holder would then review the plan, and contact - probably in person or by phone, so there would be no written record of the discussion - his pal, and political "Rabbi" Barack H. Obama, for final approval of the operation. Upper-level management protects themselves by either not providing, or destroying any record that they were involved. No office copies, no signatures, no evidence.
Democrats defended Holder, suggesting he was wrongly pursued and consequently held in contempt of Congress.
"There can no longer be any doubt that gun walking
was never authorized or approved of by the attorney general or senior
department officials," Rep. Elijah E. Cummings,D- Md., said.
"The attorney general has over and over again been
put on for this gun-walking," Eleanor Holmes Norton Holmes, the District
of Columbia's nonvoting delegate to the House, said. "The attorney
general could not have approved this because he did not even know of
gun-walking."Justifying Congress' contempt vote, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R- S.C., said,
"I hate to make the record clear, but he was never
held in contempt of Congress because he sanctioned gun-walking . He was held in contempt of Congress because
he thwarted our attempts to find out what you (the Inspector General) found out."
Further, the 471-page report suggests disciplinary action for the people most directly responsible for the gun-trafficking program... well, OF COURSE IT DOES! Somebody has to be held accountable for the criminal negligence and ineptness of the DOJ, and it "ain't gonna be" any of the people with the authority to grant final approval. It's going to be the people in the trenches - the lowest possible echelon of agents (with perhaps one or two first-line supervisors thrown in) - that comprise the sacrificial lamb. The "uppers" have covered their tracks! Politics is a prime example of "the survival of the fittest". Not necessarily the "best and brightest", but those with the most acute political survival skills. If this whole thing doesn't stink, neither does skunk spray.
November isn't that far off. Remember this, and the myriad of other transgressions by the Obama Administration, when you go to the voting booth! Save the USA - vote for ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!
I'm Gil, and I approved this message. (The preceding message was paid for by NOBODY... DAMMIT!)
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