Sipsey Street Irregulars: "No, no, you misunderstand," says the NY Times, "DOJ didn't release those documents to prove that they lied, they did it to prove they didn't lie."

Sunday, December 4, 2011

"No, no, you misunderstand," says the NY Times, "DOJ didn't release those documents to prove that they lied, they did it to prove they didn't lie."

"Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?" -- Groucho Marx.

Justice Department Counters Claim That It Misled Congress in Gun Inquiry

The Justice Department on Friday turned over to Congress nearly 1,400 pages of “highly deliberative internal communications” about the drafting of a February letter in an effort to show that agency officials did not knowingly mislead lawmakers in connection with a disputed gun trafficking investigation called Operation Fast and Furious.

Of course they did, silly.

Whenever DOJ needs a story written to explain their case, they can always count on Charlie Savage of the New York Times.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: These government apologists would be at home making excuses for the tyrant our Founders fought off this land in 1776.

Torry sons of bitches......; December 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM
Anonymous said...: I won't even click on NYT, Politico, HuffPo, MSNBC, etc. links - don't want to give them the page hits.

Fewer page hits means less advertisers; less ad revenue means out of business. Good riddance to all of them.; December 4, 2011 at 7:08 PM
rdf67 said...: Mike - You didn't mention that Charlie rated page A-16 - the kind of importance that a scandal involving the DOJ's arming of the Sinaloa cartel so they could kill people and be killed. After they get killed, the ATF sweeps in and finds guns that they watched walk out of the US gun shops.

Note that the title keeps you from searching for the Friday document dump in the NYTimes.

I particularly like the fact that Jason Weinstein was talking about guns walking in memos in 2010 and yet he signed off on the "no guns walked" statement in the letter.
Oops.; December 4, 2011 at 7:14 PM
Stang said...: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How it got in my pajamas, I'll never know.

--Captain Spaulding; December 5, 2011 at 9:27 AM

"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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Sunday, December 4, 2011

"No, no, you misunderstand," says the NY Times, "DOJ didn't release those documents to prove that they lied, they did it to prove they didn't lie."

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