Sipsey Street Irregulars: CPI : "E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley probe."

Friday, April 8, 2011

CPI : "E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley probe."

Following my new policy not to jump to conclusions. . . You know, I may be wrong but I think that David Heath at the Center for Public Integrity just wrote a story referring to David Codrea's FOIA request documents and neglected to credit David. Surely not.

LATER: After emailing John Solomon at CPI, received this back:

-----Original Message-----
From: Solomon, John
To: georgemason1776
Cc: dcodrea ; Witkin, Gordon ; Heath, David
Sent: Fri, Apr 8, 2011 10:59 am
Subject: RE: Please correct me if I have the wrong impression.

The story has been updated to accurately reflect this. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: I hear they're looking for new talent at black rock.

"The CBS Evening News with Mike Vanderboegh"

My, that has a nice ring to it.

III N TN; April 8, 2011 at 9:52 AM
oldsmobile98 said...: They put his name in there, but spelled it "Cordrea"....; April 8, 2011 at 11:35 AM
Janet Incompetano said...: "The heavily redacted documents were produced in response to a FOIA request by David Cordrea, a reporter for examiner.com, but passed on to The Center for Public Integrity by a government source."

Misspelled his name, but at least tried.; April 8, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Anonymous said...: Mr Heath does acknowledge David's work in a sloppily half-hearted manner as follows, "The heavily redacted documents were produced in response to a FOIA request by David Cordrea, a reporter for examiner.com, but passed on to The Center for Public Integrity by a government source."

Does Mr Heath not realize that if it were not for David's FOIA request then his government source would not have so freely passed along those documents to him?; April 8, 2011 at 12:06 PM
Anonymous said...: Remember that before Center for Public Integrity targeted ATF and Gunwalking, it was hot and heavy after those evil WASSER 10s flowing from Romania to the US to Mexico.

It remains to be seen how CPI will spin things going forward.

The Joyce Foundation is among CPI funders. And Joyce is about as anti-gun as they come.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/our_work/funders/; April 8, 2011 at 12:07 PM
Patrice Stanton said...: From the Heath article:

"The heavily redacted documents were produced in response to a FOIA request by David Cordrea, a reporter for examiner.com, but passed on to The Center for Public Integrity by a government source."

A link, of course, would have been nice, though that's a somewhat time-consuming thing to do...; April 8, 2011 at 12:41 PM
Alan W. Mullenax said...: Gee, that's a shame. Any possibility they'll start shooting each other?; April 8, 2011 at 2:05 PM
Anonymous said...: Looks like they do, briefly at the bottom of paragraph 3. Recent addition, or just easy to miss? Anyone know how to check that?; April 8, 2011 at 2:23 PM
Dedicated_Dad said...: I note the page says "updated..." -- no doubt to give SOMETHING resembling attribution...

"...The heavily redacted documents were produced in response to a FOIA request by David Cordrea, a reporter for examiner.com, but passed on to The Center for Public Integrity by a government source..." (emphasis mine)

Riiiiiiiight......

They're not on your RSS feeds or anything - like everyone else on the planet who's following this story.

No - THEY wait for "a government source" to read your sites, download/print the information and pass it along to them.

That makes me feel SOOOooo much better about them!!

/sarcasm

These clowns are a JOKE!; April 8, 2011 at 3:25 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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