Sipsey Street Irregulars: Sipsey Street Exclusive: Jay Dobyn's Lawyer Comments On the Issa Letter.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Sipsey Street Exclusive: Jay Dobyn's Lawyer Comments On the Issa Letter.

Folks,

This morning I posted the letter by Congressman Darrell Issa to Eric Holder regarding further ATF victimization of whistleblowers, including Jay Dobyns. (Here is David's take.) At the time, I didn't yet have a response from Jay's lawyer, James Reed. Here it is:

Hi Mike:

It is nice to meet you, through this email. In response to your voicemail to me today, requesting a comment for an article you are writing for Sypsey Street Irregulars, let me offer the following.

Presently, my law firm is in discussions with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) regarding a recent claim by my client, ATF Special Agent Jay Dobyns, of retaliation against Agent Dobyns by ATF, i.e., the matter to which House Chairman Darrell Issa, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, refers in his letter dated June 1, 2012, a copy of which you informed me in your voicemail today that you had already received and read.

In that letter, we appreciate that Representative Issa recognizes Agent Dobyns as an important resource during the House committee investigation regarding ATF’s Fast and Furious operation. Further, we thank Representative Issa for his role in engendering ATF agent confidence to report and speak publicly about allegations of fraud, waste and abuse within ATF, without fear of retaliation from ATF supervisors and management.

As demonstrated by publicly-available information, Agent Dobyns is not the only agent within ATF to allege that he qualifies as a federal whistleblower or to have made a claim that retaliation against him by ATF has occurred, despite federally-protected whistleblower status. In particular, Representative Issa’s letter makes clear, we believe correctly, that (1) ATF agents have a right and, under certain circumstances, even a responsibility to furnish information to Congress, (2) any limitations by ATF on such rights of communication with the Congress are impermissible, and (3) in certain instances, where prohibitions of or interference with an ATF agent’s exercise of such rights of communication with the Congress have the effect of obstructing or impeding a Congressional inquiry, such interference can rise to the level of a crime.

At the present time, I prefer not to comment further on the matters under discussion with ATF regarding Agent Dobyns, matters which we consider to be serious in nature. Please know that we appreciate the attention that Sypsey Street Irregulars continues to generate regarding the House Committee’s right to properly and thoroughly investigate Operation Fast and Furious, as part of the general public’s call for transparent operation of federal agencies whenever possible and for full respect for federal whistleblower protections. The role of Sipsey Street Irregulars in pushing for full disclosure of ATF documents relevant to Operation Fast and Furious, where such disclosure does not, when viewed fairly and objectively, compromise national security or ongoing criminal investigations, demonstrates the value of a free press and of free speech.

Regards,

Jim Reed

Attorney for ATF Special Agent Jay Dobyns

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Mike, you are the epitome of investigative journalism. You make MSM "reporters" look like asinine. terminally don't get it nincompoops...they know it, and we know it. Congratulations for a job well done, and thank you for opening my eyes to the real world. Without your complete annihilation of the fraudulent story coming out of the ATF and DOJ's mouth, Issa and Co. wouldn't have come this far, and we wouldn't know the truth. You deserve far more than a simple thank you, but that's all I can do. In reality..this nation owes you not only a vote of thanks, but from those who doubted, obstained, were and are outright WRONG ..a GODDAMN APOLOGY! Again, my deep appreciation.; July 3, 2012 at 11:54 PM
Dedicated_Dad said...: Retaliation against whistleblowers *IS* a crime!

Don't beat around the bush - those responsible should be fired, stripped of their pensions, tried, and if convicted sent to prison where they belong!

I'm damn tired of the criminals wearing good-guy uniforms!!; July 4, 2012 at 1:53 AM
Anonymous said...: Such a "lawyer letter." I hate that we have to write in that fashion. Wish we could stop worrying about covering ass and just say "Thanks for bringing the heat on the most corrupt DOJ leader in modern history. Please keep publishing any document you get your hands on because a republic cannot let its government operate in secret. Love always, Attorney for a true American Hero.

P.S. If you get any documents on Holder's involvement in OKC, please send my way. TIA."; July 4, 2012 at 12:52 PM
gettimothy said...: Mike, Thank you for your hard work.

I tweet as 'gettimothy' on twitter quite a bit and have to hand copy your post links to twitter to update the twitter-verse on your work.

Many blogs have a 'tweet this' button on them after a post that make it easier for your readers to get the word out.

I found this link: http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2010/08/twitter-share-buttons-for-blogger-tweet.html

If you have the time, please get some advise from people you trust on this and let your readers help you.

If you decide it is not worth your time, I will still tweet your posts as best I can.

Sincerely,; July 4, 2012 at 2:56 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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