Friday, April 1, 2011

Deadlines come and go as the GOP apparently blinks in the face of the Gunwalker stonewallers. "The agencies will stonewall forever because they can."



Hans Blix: Let me look around, so I can ease the UN's collective mind.

Kim Jong-il: Hans, ya-breakin' my barrs here, Hans, ya breakin' my barrs!

Hans Blix: I'm sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me see your whole palace, or else...

Kim Jong-il: Or erse what?

Hans Blix: Or else we will be very, very angry with you... And we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.

Kim Jong-il: Ok, I show you around. First, move to your to reft a rittle. [Blix moves]

'Kim Jong-il: Rittle more. [moves again]

Kim Jong-il: Good. [opens trap door then walks to shark tank] There you go Hans Brix! How you rike that you (expletives deleted)?!?


Well, we have deadlines coming and going and so far no documents from the cover-up artists in the Gunwalker scandal and no subpoenas or further demands from the House committee chairmen of the GOP (remember Senator Grassley cannot go farther than Patrick Leahy's Democrat leash will let him). Take Lamar Smith. He doesn't have Grassley's limitations and his demand expired on the 18th of March. Has he gotten serious about the administration's non-compliance? Apparently not. Does he think that writing a nasty letter suffices in this kind of struggle for the truth?

A long-time Washington insider provides this perspective:

I called a retired fed (from the Department of Justice) with whom I'd worked for some 20 years, and asked for insights into how the stonewalling goes, as he's seen/experienced plenty of it (met personally with Janet Reno one time on a sensitive matter). He said:

"The first thing the agency does is turn over the request/demand to the attorneys. The attorneys tell them what their rights are, and what they do and don't have to do. The reason nothing has happened yet [with ATF, DOJ and State] is that the request wasn't properly framed, with the right legal language. When that happens, the attorneys will figure out what they have to comply with, and then comply; but the comply can get very tricky, as to what gets made public, all that. But if the request is made in the correct legal way, the agency will comply because it has to."

My take: This guy has no reason to shit me. Not being an attorney, I don't know what language/etc. has to be invoked, and these letters from Congress could be preliminary skirmishing. We'll see how serious the Congress is; if it's not, my friend said the agencies will stonewall forever because they can.


I think it is reasonable to ask, no, forget asking, to demand, of Lamar Smith and Darrell Issa just how serious they are in this stand-off. Both have made threatening noises and Issa certainly picked the fight of his life when he challenged Hillary Clinton the other day, but the cover-up artists are not complying.

Believe me, my source is right: "the agencies will stonewall forever because they can."

It is time to make the other side blink, Mr. "Big Dog" GOP committee chairmen. Hit the bastards with subpoenas. And for pity's sake get a competent lawyer to craft the demand letters correctly. Only then will people -- the guilty and those who are demanding justice -- know you are serious.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

As I suspected, this is looking more and more like another huff and puff and not much else.

How is it that a congress, comprised of mostly lawyers, can not draft a properly worded demand letter?

WTF?

KPN3%

Mark Matis said...

While I applaud your call for subpoenas, I hope you understand WHY the Congressmen have not yet done so. Once the subpoenas ARE issued, just exactly WHAT is going to happen when the Most Transparent Administration EVER decides to blow them off? Just exactly WHO is going to do WHAT to WHOM?

Take a careful look at your answer to that last question. Note carefully who the "WHO" you claim is going to the "WHAT" actually reports to. Is that by any chance the "WHOM" that they are supposed to do the "WHAT" to? Do you think there is any possibility that, in spite of what they are SUPPOSED to do, they will instead bow and scrape before their Masters and then do WHATEVER they are told?

And if the Congressmen realize that, do you think they may be somewhat reluctant to issue subpoenas, knowing that doing so could be an open invitation to civil war?

Anonymous said...

Barry's got two more years to get everything done if the media can't rehabilitate him and or find and support another Marxist to take over.

They can stall that long and longer if necessary unless the leaks become damaging to the point that the media can't control information to the public sufficiently.

At that point there will be a flood of lower level bodies under every bus in DC. But all that takes time since they didn't foresee this happening as it did. If they had, there would already be a corpse or two hanging from a bridge where everyone could see and become satisfied that everything is everything.

Mickey Collins said...

Never set a deadline you aren't prepared to enforce.

I figured Issa was bluffing. So did the perps. We were right.

Konall said...

http://michellemalkin.com/2011/04/01/project-gunrunner-update-issa-subpoenas-the-stonewallers/