Sipsey Street Irregulars: Senator Grassley's Chief Investigative Counsel hits back: "Just the facts on Fast and Furious ."

Friday, November 4, 2011

Senator Grassley's Chief Investigative Counsel hits back: "Just the facts on Fast and Furious ."

Important reply to the Mouth That Roared.

So, the Justice Department should comply with the House subpoenas, cough-up the documents it’s withholding, and make witnesses available for questioning. If senior officials at Main Justice and the White House knew nothing of consequence, then there is nothing to hide. Attempts to politicize the investigation and discredit the investigators only serve as a distraction from a genuine search for the truth.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Once again, this is all playing at patty-cake.
Until Rep Issa and Sen Grassley start imposing fees, fines, imprisonment and other punishments for non-compliance, the WH and DOJ (DoiJ) will continue to lie, obfuscate and drag their feet on this.
Where would the average Joe Citizen be if they behaved the same way to a Federal Investigative Committee?

B Woodman
III-per; November 5, 2011 at 5:57 AM
Mark Matis said...: Now B Woodman, I'm sure that Malthus will be along shortly to agree with your infinite wisdom. However, just HOW do you think the House is going to enforce "fees, fines, imprisonment and other punishments for non-compliance" when the Administration LAUGHS at their subpoenas? WHO do you think is going to ENFORCE any of that? BATFE? DEA? FBI? Yeah, right!

This country is no longer under Rule of Law, and indeed has NOT been for quite some time. There is no "Law Enforcement". There are merely Thugs with Guns. And the stench is overwhelming.; November 5, 2011 at 7:47 AM
Anonymous said...: How about these two BHO Czars in relationship to the current investigation?

Earl Devaney - Stimulus Accountability Czar. Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico. Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico.

Ashton Carter - Weapons Czar.
Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America. No Other "policy".

Don't stay fixated on DOJ, DOS, Riley, Holder, et. al. Someone had to plan and coordinate...its too damn big.; November 5, 2011 at 1:24 PM
Anonymous said...: Mr Matis,
Good point. So does that mean, if the law does not apply to thee (FBI, BATFE, DHS, DEA) it equally does not apply to me?

Thanks, I needed that.
B Woodman
III-per; November 5, 2011 at 2:11 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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