Sipsey Street Irregulars: Gunwalker Miscellany: Conflicting stories on Melson; "This story keeps getting weirder and weirder."; Stimulus $$ used to fund Gunwalker.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Gunwalker Miscellany: Conflicting stories on Melson; "This story keeps getting weirder and weirder."; Stimulus $$ used to fund Gunwalker.

Dave Workman reports that "Melson met secretly with investigators so DOJ ‘wouldn’t know about it.’"

Kenneth Melson, acting director of the embattled Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, purposely asked for a July 4 meeting with Congressional investigators “because he did not want the Justice Department to know about it,” Gun Rights Examiner has learned.

Congressional sources close to the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious confirmed that Melson attended the meeting on his own time, with his own attorney, rather than appear as scheduled in a few days with a Justice Department lawyer. Had Melson simply gone to Capitol Hill on July 13 as scheduled, he would have been accompanied by legal counsel representing the Justice Department, not Melson.

Main Justice, a blog much more identified with the powers-that-be at DOJ reports Melson's own lawyer says that there is no break with DOJ.

Jake Tapper at ABC reports "This story keeps getting weirder and weirder." Keep going Jake, you'll figure it out.

Patrick Richardson at the PJ Tatler has rediscovered that stimulus funding was used to fund Gunwalker: "Someone in Congress knew about Gunrunner, and Obama signed funding for it into law."

Actually, Michelle Malkin reported on this on 30 March with this story: Project Gunrunner: Obama’s Stimulus-Funded Border Nightmare.

3 comments:

eddymatthews said...: I smell a rat!; July 7, 2011 at 8:05 PM
pdxr13 said...: Folks were having a bit of trouble getting this .pdf from the DoJ servers, so I found it and uploaded to Scribd.

U.S. Department of JusticeOffice of the Inspector GeneralEvaluation and Inspections Division
Review of ATF’s Project Gunrunner November 2010

http://www.scribd.com/doc/59574117/e1101; July 7, 2011 at 10:17 PM
Anonymous said...: Melsom is a scumbag no different than the rest of the STASI agents at BATFE.

DAN
III; July 8, 2011 at 6:13 AM

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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Gunwalker Miscellany: Conflicting stories on Melson; "This story keeps getting weirder and weirder."; Stimulus $$ used to fund Gunwalker.

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