Sunday, January 8, 2012
Taking an Absolved Day
Desperately seeking finality. More posts tonight (maybe) or tomorrow (certainly).
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Praxis: "What the hell?" Mossberg/Maverick 88 failure to fire.
Has anybody out there besides this guy and me had this problem with an 88?
Some months ago I got an inexpensive used Maverick 88 for my daughters' apartment at college. Having stripped the thing, the trigger group (indeed, the entire weapon) seems near new with little usage, but right now, even with a variety of ammo, it is failing to fire 3 times out of 20. If I remember right from my old Mossberg 500, the rear of the firing pin ought to be able to be depressed (using your thumb) by pressing on the back so that you can, without pain, make the business end of the firing pin peak out the front of the bolt face. Either the pin is binding or the spring is too stiff because I can't do it without pushing it against a solid object. Anybody else had this problem? What fix did you use?
Back from gun show.
Indifferent success selling stuff. Did however find 10 of these Romanian two-pocket Kalashnikov pouches for a little less than $2.00 each. Those will get packed away for newbies, if, as, and when.
Also picked up three wooden ammo crates suitable for packing away 2 M19A1 "thirty cal" cans of ammo per each, cost was $2.50 each.
What I was looking for, but failed to find were these:
Current standard M16 bandoleers (4 pockets, 30 rounds each. I have the ammo on stripper clips and packed in cardboard sleeves, what I lack are the bandos themselves. The cheapest ones I found were $3.00 each and the most expensive $6.00 each, pricing that I find extortionate. (The last ones I bought in bulk for fifty cents each.) I've got 7-pocket (20 rds per pocket) Vietnam standard bandoleers running out my ears, but I needed about a dozen four pockets to finish a project.
Back to writing. . .
Off to the gun show to sell some stuff.
I intend to accomplish more this trip to DC than the last two, and that takes money, although the transportation has already been taken care of and I stay with friends in Northern Virginia. I will be at the show only this morning because I have a radio show to do at 2PM Central.
David Codrea to speak tonight in Montgomeryville PA to Tea Party group.
One of the local announcements:
Second Amendment rights journalist David Codrea presents “Operation Fast & Furious” tonight at 7 at the Quality Inn Conference Center, 969 Bethlehem Pike, Montgomeryville. Codrea is one of two journalists that broke the story of the sting operation conducted by the U.S. ATF that resulted in disaster.
Pertinent to nothing in particular, Montgomeryville is the hometown of Civil War General Winfield Scott Hancock, one of the Union heroes at Gettysburg.
Sipsey Street mentions in the media.
Thursday night, the Boston radio show NightSide With Dan Rea (8 p.m. WBZ-AM) did an hour long interview with CBS’s Sharyl Attkisson on the Fast and Furious scandal, and Sharyl mentioned David Codrea, Dave Workman Sipsey Street and the general subject of blogs in the breaking of the Gunwalker scandal. I have this second hand and cannot find the show posted on the Internet.
The Houston Chronicle, in an article on "State troopers ready launch gunboats along Rio Grande," mention Sipsey Street as well, along with a link, God love 'em:
A forum at Austin Bass Fishing notes the six boats are equipped with three 300 Mercury Verados on the stern. A number of other sites, including a conservative blog for the Sipsey Street Irregulars, feature animated discussions.
I also hear that this week Sipsey Street posts and the overall work of the Coalition of Willing Lilliputians were the subject of private discussions at the NRA Board Meeting and the White House. We sure are coming up (or down) in the world.
Three articles on Romney, the GOP elites and how they will destroy the sadly misnamed "Republican" Party.
The suicidal campaign by clueless elites to delegitimize the two-party regime proceeds apace.
A House Divided: The divider of the Republican party is its front-runner, Mitt Romney.
Obama vs. None of the Above.
Ron Paul's Army Won't Be Easily Broken.
If Romney is the nominee, not only will he lose, but the GOP will lose the Tea Partiers and the Paul supporters to some new party, or combination of parties. It will be the last straw for people who have been consistently marginalized and sold out by the GOP elites. It also will make civil war much more likely.
When Gunwalker finally threatens Obama, it will be Rahm Emanuel who takes the chop for it.
Interesting WH dynamics. Emanuel vs. Michelle.
The dramatics that surrounded the passage of health care reform -- culminating in Emanuel's near-resignation -- reflect the type of struggles that routinely pitted Emanuel against the first lady during the first two years of the Obama administration. The two jockeyed for influence over the president even before he formally took office.
Wonder where the origin Gunwalker fit into this titanic struggle? One thing for sure, when Gunwalker finally threatens Obama, it will be Rahm Emanuel who takes the chop for it. Michelle will make sure of that.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Perjurers' Row. Gunwalkers of a feather flock together. Holder & ATF's McMahon at Agent John Capano's Funeral.
Remember this guy?
That's William McMahon on the right, sitting beside his fellow perjurer, William "Gunwalker Bill" Newell at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee in July.
And look, here he is again, this week, at ATF Agent John Capano's funeral, right after it was announced he's been "sidelined" preparatory to being canned after the OIG report comes out. And who might that be beside him? Why it's none other than the current perjurer in chief, Eric Holder.
Wonder what they're saying to each other? Well, thanks to the Sipsey Street Irregular intelligence asset Waldo, now we know:
Holder: "You know, Bill, if you and Newell had done a better job of perjury, I wouldn't be in the fix I'm in."McMahon: "I could say the same thing about you, sir. . . and, sir?"Holder: "Yes?"McMahon: "Since I'm about to be shit-canned by your order, why should I still be loyal, did you ever wonder that?"Holder: "Hey, it wasn't me. That came from above my pay grade."McMahon: "You'd be surprised how little that means to me. . . and, sir?"Holder: "Yes?"McMahon: "Do you know what I'm going to be doing on February 2nd?"Holder: "What's that?"McMahon: "I'm going to be sitting at home, eating popcorn and watching you roast on C-SPAN, asshole."
Breaking News by way of a Sipsey Street Exclusive: ATF Chief Counsel Rubenstein retiring 31 January. Another rat leaves the sinking ship. Plus, they're all acting now.
The last few times I've written about ATF Chief Counsel Steve "the Spider" Rubenstein here and here, I got in trouble with the Arachnid Anti-Defamation League for comparing him to honest, hard-working spiders. So, not wanting to upset the honest arachnids this time, how about if I compare him to a rat leaving a sinking ship? For that is exactly what I hear is happening. I just received this short email announcement from Waldo:
ATF Chief Counsel Steve Rubenstein is retiring affective Jan 31.
No other details have been confirmed at this time, but it is certain that Rubenstein was hip deep in any number of ATF scandals, including the Gunwalker conspiracy and cover-up. My sources, who have had a belly-full of Rubenstein's anti-gun agenda over the years, say he will not be missed.
The only person who will likely be cut to the quick by Rubenstein's departure is Chuck Schumer, who, according to sources, was one of Rubenstein's big senatorial fans.
As the U.S.S. Gunwalker Plot goes down, Steve "The Rat" Rubenstein can be barely discerned in the water just off the starboard bow, tail and all.
LATER: I just learned that the acting Chief of Staff for the Acting Director, Greg Serres, will be the new Acting Chief Counsel. The thing is, they're all acting.
Open letter to Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley on anticipated OIG Fast and Furious report.
Open letter to Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley on the anticipated OIG Fast and Furious report
A joint release by David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh
Dear Rep. Issa and Sen. Grassley,
Congratulations on the exceptional leadership you both have shown in advancing congressional investigations on the Fast and Furious “gunwalking” criminal enterprise. The two of you have taken things a long way since we first felt compelled to write an open letter requesting attention and action nearly a year ago.
We once more feel a need to correspond openly because we realize our voices are small compared to the many larger ones demanding your attention, and because it is in the public’s interest to be aware of the points we wish to call your attention to.
As you know, there have been some reassignments of ATF officials tied to your investigation, as first reported on January 4 by Gun Rights Examiner and Sipsey Street Irregulars. Speculation backed by informed opinion regards this as a tactical preparatory maneuver prior to the release of the long-awaited Office of Inspector General report on Fast and Furious, as well as the upcoming return of Attorney General Holder to testify before your committee. We believe that the personnel moves were made as a result of a draft of the OIG report.
We understand government audit procedures REQUIRE the auditor to present a draft report to the agency for its comments before finalizing the report. This is why DRAFT reports are sensitive--they can and often do change in response to agency comments/reactions, and DRAFT reports are not OFFICIAL/final reports.
Still, in light of this week’s developments, it seems a fair question to determine, if DOJ and ATF are in possession of a draft copy of the report, and if there have been any leaks.
Next, we would remind you that in Rep. Issa’s September 20, 2011 telephone conference with bloggers, he answered “Yes” to the following question:
Might “making sure this never happens again” include prosecutions?
As the sidelining of ATF officials appears to confirm, but with our full acknowledgment and respect for their presumption of innocence and right of due process, the current acting director appears intent on treating potential criminal violations as mere personnel matters.
But there are other reasons we’re writing you today that have to do with the soon-to-be-released OIG report, itself controversial in terms of true independence and objectivity.
There is this observation from one of the advisers who has helped us navigate the way the federal government works from the beginning of our Gunwalker investigation and reporting, and which Mike Vanderboegh forwarded to your investigators yesterday evening:
Attorney General Holder has already told us what the OIG report will find: "The gunwalking was a local operation that got out of hand." At most he will say, at the February 2, 2012, hearing: "We have taken appropriate personnel actions against the ATF staff involved in inappropriate aspects of Fast & Furious; now, let’s move on to the gun control legislation you need to enact to keep this from happening again."What we need to look at is the OIG report's SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY section, which is likely to say something like: "We investigated allegations that guns were walked under authority of the ATF and U.S. Attorney's offices in Phoenix, Arizona. Despite credible evidence that guns were walked in multiple locations, including Chicago, Houston, and Miami, we did not investigate gunwalking in those locations because Attorney General Holder instructed us not to. Therefore, our report makes no observations or conclusions about gunwalking that may or may not have occurred in those locations. We conducted our work under Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards between February 2011 and December 2011."Before y'all snicker, consider what the Treasury Department Inspector General wrote and published in its audit of the accuracy and completeness of the NFRTR, in its 1998 report: "Our scope did not include a review of the accuracy of ATF's certifications in criminal prosecutions that no record of registration of a particular weapon could be found in the registry. We also did not evaluate the procedures that ATF personnel use to search the registry to enable them to provide an assurance to the court that no such registration exists in specific cases. Accordingly, this report does not provide an opinion as to the accuracy of the registry searches conducted by ATF."
If the Committee recognizes that Attorney General Holder placed artificial constraints on the gunwalking investigation, and there is credible evidence of gunwalking in other locations, he'll be toast. I would consider recommending to the Committee that it be sensitive to these distinctions.
Importantly, there are supplements we hope you will demand in addition to the OIG report: The work papers used to develop it. Government auditing standards require that evidentiary work papers used as the basis for report findings be fully documented, have evidence of supervisory review, and that the auditors are independent and free from outside influences that could affect the integrity of the audit.
We had initially considered filing a FOIA request for the work papers after the final OIG report is published , but based on documented (and illegal?) stonewalling shown to date on prior requests, and the need for timely and effective action, we believe this is something you are best equipped to lead on.
We believe the OIG will be hard-pressed to refuse to release interviews it conducted, particularly because the interviews would form at least part of the basis for whatever the OIG determines. The limitations--who was not interviewed--will also be evident. As our adviser notes, “The work papers will be hot stuff, that's for sure.”
Please keep these concerns in mind, both in your review of the report whenever it is finally released, and in your questioning of AG Holder. We would also ask you to share our concerns with other committee members interested in determining the truth by following the evidence, and then committed to pursuing justice for the gunwalker victims, their survivors, and the American people.
Thank you for your interest and consideration. As always, please let us know if there is anything we can do to help further your outstanding efforts.
Sincerely,
David Codrea & Mike Vanderboegh
Lighting candles and cursing the darkness. "Politically speaking, the 'gun control movement' is an elitist exercise in limp-dickery." How this explains the Gunwalker Conspiracy. "We had a plan."
One year on from the Tuscon shooting, the Brady Bunch is getting together to mourn both the dead, and if they're honest, the death of their citizen disarmament political movement. ("D.C. Gun Victims Vigil Sunday; Anniversary of Tucson Shooting.") This will be an opportunity for them to both light a candle AND curse the darkness. As for myself, I think I'll give the Brady blood-dancing-'round-the-Maypole-in-January a pass and go to the Birmingham gun show instead. Have to raise a little money for the next hearing trip, don't you know? ;-)
Even Mike the Mouth's Bloomberg/Newsweek has been forced to admit as much in an article entitled "Gun Control: A Movement Without Followers."
In the year since the Tucson (Ariz.) massacre, in which a Glock-wielding gunman killed six people and wounded 13, the most famous victim, Gabrielle Giffords, has recovered admirably. The Arizona representative has co-authored a memoir and made appearances in the well of the House of Representatives and on national television. What Giffords and her fellow Democrats have not done is use the Tucson bloodshed to achieve tougher gun control laws.The inaction, especially President Barack Obama’s passivity on the topic, demonstrates that gun control has expired as a national political issue. If Democrats can’t sell stiffer restrictions after a midday attack on a congresswoman, when can they?
My favorite Brady moan from this article is:
“It’s shameful, as we approach the anniversary of the Tucson tragedy, that the only bill Congress has acted on would make it easier to carry concealed guns across state lines,” says Dennis Henigan, who heads the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in Washington.
Shameful? A concession to political realities, rather.
Giffords, Obama, and other Democrats can read polls showing diminished support for gun control. In late October, Gallup reported that a record-low 26 percent of Americans favor a ban on civilian possession of handguns, down from 60 percent when Gallup first asked the question in 1959. By a 60-35 margin, Gallup said, “Americans’ preference regarding gun laws is generally that the government enforce existing laws more strictly and not pass new laws.”The Supreme Court, too, is doing its part to deter broader gun control. In landmark rulings in 2008 and 2010, the justices clarified that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to keep a handgun at home, striking down local bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C.
Of course it doesn't help that the Obama administration's apparent clandestine operation to deliver on his promise to Sarah Brady that they were proceeding with citizen disarmament ploys "under the radar" just blew up in its face like a loaded cheap cigar.
But the realization that, politically speaking, the 'gun control movement' is an elitist exercise in limp-dickery is not new. I just finished (praise the Lord for giving me the strength to endure) a 2006 book by Kristin Goss, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science at Duke University, entitled Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America. From the publisher's blurb:
More than any other advanced industrial democracy, the United States is besieged by Commanding majorities of Americans voice support for stricter controls on firearms. Yet they have never mounted a true national movement for gun control. Why? Disarmed unravels this paradox.Based on historical archives, interviews, and original survey evidence, Kristin Goss suggests that the gun control campaign has been stymied by a combination of factors, including the inability to secure patronage resources, the difficulties in articulating a message that would resonate with supporters, and strategic decisions made in the name of effective policy. The power of the so-called gun lobby has played an important role in hobbling the gun-control campaign, but that is not the entire story. Instead of pursuing a strategy of incremental change on the local and state levels, gun control advocates have sought national policies. Some 40% of state gun control laws predate the 1970s, and the gun lobby has systematically weakened even these longstanding restrictions.A compelling and engagingly written look at one of America's most divisive political issues, Disarmed illuminates the organizational, historical, and policy-related factors that constrain mass mobilization, and brings into sharp relief the agonizing dilemmas faced by advocates of gun control and other issues in the United States.
Right. Social scientist Goss attempts to give the gun control movement elitists a game plan for rising above their elitism (below?) to appeal to the common man (or, rather, woman, since Goss identifies them as the gun banner's natural audience) to create a mass movement for gun control. The book is by turns turgid, illogical and contradictory. The gun banners loved it, though, with dust jacket endorsements from Sarah Brady, Carolyn McCarthy and Robert Spitzer. There are, however, some raisins in the turd if you choose to pick them out from the brown stuff.
Note well the above phrase, "the inability to secure patronage resources." Among the most important of these, Goss explains, are governmental, bureaucratic "patronage resources," and chief among them, the ATF.
"By the late 90s, with a pro-control president in the White House, BATF was poised to become a quiet ally to gun control organizations. . . To avoid arousing the gun lobby, the agency justified its research projects in terms of "enforcement" of existing laws, which gun rights organizations were on record as supporting. . . One insider summarized the bureaucracy's strategy as follows: "We had a plan to move from enforcement to policy to politics without anybody noticing, and that's what we did."
The footnote to this quote indicates that it is based on a "personal interview with (a) former Treasury official, March, 2002."
And, here, gentle readers, is the genesis of the Gunwalker Conspiracy. Absent the political will for the kind of disarmament schemes the elitists sought -- in the face of the political blow back that embracing gun control cost the Democrats and RINOs -- blocked at almost every turn by these factors even with the willing assistance of the news media which could never quite persuade the American people that citizen disarmament was a good thing -- the gun grabbers inside the present administration, made up largely of people from the Clinton administration who remembered the 1994 landslide loss with palpable pain, recognized that whatever they were to accomplish had to be, in Obama's words to Sarah Brady, "under the radar." Ipse dixit.
And nine months after Obama took office, the clandestine gunwalking program was off to the races. It was their only hope of changing the political realities faced by the gun ban advocates. That it didn't succeed is not for lack of trying. Only now they have to face the music, and the judgment of a rightfully wrathful people.
"The latest shakeup was first reported by the website Sipsey Street Irregulars."
From Tickle the Wire, the federal law enforcement blog: "More Shakeups at ATF Over Fast and Furious."
Hey! What about David? It WAS a joint scoop.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
White House still pimpin' the "Bush made us do it" meme.
Wide Receiver gun-walking records released by Justice Department.
WANTED BY THE FBI: The Bush Mind Controller who makes the Obamanoids do all those stupid Mexican gun tricks.
Reuters a day late and a scoop short.
"ATF sidelines officials in gun sting debacle." Guess they read Sipsey Street or David's Gun Rights Examiner column.
LATER: David's reaction here.
Sipsey Street Exclusive: "Personnel is policy." Part Two: Dennis Burke's Powerful Friends and How They Are Still Paying Him Dividends in His Disgrace.
When we last left Dennis Burke and the Wayback Machine in Part One of Personnel Is Policy, the date was 11 July 1990 and Dennis DeConcini's Assault Weapons Importation Ban, the collaborative effort of that senator and his young protege on the Senate Judiciary Committee staff, Dennis Burke, had just passed. As I wrote in the conclusion to Part One:
The victory was Dennis K. Burke's as much, or even more, than Dennis DeConcini's. Burke had become a potent player in the drive for more gun control. And that drive began in 1989, two decades before he was selected by the Obama administration to go back out and run the Phoenix U.S. Attorney's office and a little program called Fast and Furious.
This was all the more remarkable because although Burke was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1962, he received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in 1985 and earned his Juris Doctor from University of Arizona College of Law in 1988. His official bio states that after completing law school, Burke served as a law clerk for Judge James Moeller of the Arizona Supreme Court. Thus, for Burke to have played such a critical role in the 1989 framing of the Assault Weapons Importation Ban, he must have spent hardly any time at all clerking for Judge Moeller.
His meteoric rise from newly-minted law school grad one year to counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee the next bespeaks of a well-placed and powerful sponsor. Exactly who that was at this writing remains unclear. It may have been DeConcini himself.
Burke remained on the Senate Judiciary Committee until DeConcini, under a politcal cloud because of the Keating Five scandal and facing stiff primary opposition, elected not to run for reelection in 1994 and left the Senate in January 1995. When DeConcini left, Burke left too, sliding over to the Clinton White House to work from 1995 to 1997 as a senior policy analyst on the Domestic Policy Council. The DPC, according to its website, "coordinates the domestic policy-making process in the White House and offers advice to the President. The DPC also supervises the execution of domestic policy and represents the President’s priorities to Congress."
At the time of Burke's move, Elena Kagan was Associate White House Counsel from 1995–1996 and then moved to Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council from 1997–1999. Thus Burke came into contact with Kagan and some of his emails were entered into evidence during Kagan's confirmation hearing for the position of Associate Supreme Court Justice. At the time, Kagan's anti-firearm bias was highlighted by witnesses such as Dave Kopel.
Certainly the domestic policy of the Clinton Administration was for more gun control, however they could achieve it, even though they had paid a huge political price for overreaching on the gun issue in the 1994 elections, which saw the GOP take over the House for the first time in 40 plus years. This shocking political setback did not dissuade the Clinton Administration from pursuing gun control in salami slices by executive fiat, fact they rather favored the tactic. Paul Begala, Clinton White House senior adviser was quoted in the New York Times on 5 July 1998 as saying, "Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda cool." He was referring to executive orders.
Lest anyone think that gun control was not a prime directive of the Clintonista regime, or that I am eggaerating their appetite for more citizen disarmament, this writer has a copy of a letter sent to an Alabamian on 20 February 1997 enunciating the Clinton policy clearly. Written by Ronnie L. Edelman, Principal Deputy Chief, Terrorism and Violent Crime Section of the DOJ's Criminal Division, it says quite plainly: "The Second Amendment does not protect the right of private citizens to possess firearms of any type."
In April 1997, with the Printz case about to decide the legality of the Brady Law, the Clinton White House was nervous. The case had been argued on 3 December 1996 and was decided on 27 June 1997, but in April the case had not yet been decided and the Clinton administration was eager for any publicity which would buttress their case in the court of public opinion. The administration was aware that Supreme Court justices read the papers too. (In fact, in the end Justice Kennedy, who was originally in favor of overturning the entire law, changed his mind and helped deliver an opinion that overturned part, but not all, of the law.)
But it is in that context that Dennis K. Burke wrote these emails to Elena Kagan, found in the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock:
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)CREATOR: Dennis K. Burke ( CN=Dennis K. Burke/OU=OPD/O=EOP [ OPD 1 )CREATION DATE/TIME:22-APR-1997 10:22:18.00SUBJECT: Re: Brady ChecksTO: Elena Kagan ( CN=Elena Kagan/OU=OPD/O=EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )READ: UNKNOWNTEXT: Bruce thought it was a good idea but I never heard back from Rahm. I will call Handgun Control to find out the lastest developments in Houston - - it might still be timely.
Later, Burke followed up with this email:
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)CREATOR: Dennis K. Burke ( CN;Dennis K. Burke/OU;OPD/O;EOP [ OPD 1 )CREATION DATE/TIME:22-APR-1997 10:26:01.00SUBJECT: Re: Brady ChecksTO: Elena Kagan ( CN;Elena Kagan/OU;OPD/O;EOP @ EOP [ OPD 1 )READ:UNKNOWNTEXT: I just called them -- Houston will resume doing background checks on Thursday. So, the President calling Lanier (or a letter) tomorrow or Thursday would still be timely, if we wanted to advance this one. It's small potatoes but it is sort of a freebie, too.
By the "lastest (sic) developments in Houston," Burke was referring to a Houston Chronicle story that Handgun Control later described:
After the Brady law went into effect, a few local sheriffs -- with NRA encouragement and financial backing -- challenged the background check requirement. But even in those states where a federal district court suspended the requirement that local police conduct background checks, the vast majority of police departments continued to do the background checks voluntarily. The few law enforcement officers who refuse to conduct background checks will face stiff public opposition. For example, on April 12, 1997, a front page story in the Houston Chronicle, revealed that the Houston Police Department had quietly suspended all "Brady checks" for handgun purchasers for the preceding year. A public opinion poll showed that 90% of Houston residents felt that their police should conduct background checks on handgun purchasers, whether or not federal law requires it. After five days of public outcry, the Houston police announced that they would resume those background checks.
By "Lanier," Burke is referring to then Houston Mayor Bob Lanier.
The important thing about these emails is that Burke is working closely with Handgun Control, and, according to my sources in DC and Arizona, was viewed by Handgun Control (which later changed its name to the Brady Campaign) as one of their best friends both when he was on the Hill and then later in the White House policy shop. Indeed, I have one source (and, caveat lector, one source only) who claims that Burke was for a while a member of Handgun Control. Repeated phone calls by this reporter to Caroline Brewer, current press spokesperson of the Brady Campaign, for comment on that specific allegation have been ignored.
Later in 1997, Burke left DC when he was appointed Assistant Attorney General in the Phoenix U.S. Attorney's office. His boss was Janet Napolitano, who had been appointed by Bill Clinton in 1993. As U.S. Attorney, Napolitano was involved in the investigation of Michael Fortier of Kingman, Arizona, in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing. In 1998, Napolitano for and won the position of Arizona Attorney General and Burke came with her as Arizona's Chief Deputy Attorney General.
In 2003, Napolitano ran for, and won, the Arizona governor's office. Again, Burke followed along behind, serving as her Chief of Staff from 2003 until 2008, when Napolitano was picked by Barack Obama to command the Department of Homeland Security. Burke again went with Nappy to DC, where he became her senior adviser on border and law enforcement issues. Obviously, whoever had been Burke's sponsor early on had now been replaced by Janet Napolitano. A source familiar with both Burke and Napolitano characterized their relationship as "warm, personal and one of complete trust."
So why, then, did Burke leave -- almost immediately -- the DHS posting for the U.S. Attorney's job in Phoenix? He was appointed in July 2009, approved by the Senate in early September and sworn in on Wednesday, 16 September 2009, as the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona. Rather, I should rephrase the question since the reason he took such a leap up in his personal career is obvious, WHY WAS HE CHOSEN FOR THE TASK BY HIS SUPERIORS?
A simple review of his career to this point screams out the obvious -- Burke was known to be the go-to guy on gun control. He had built his twenty year career on the foundations of citizen disarmament. His friends, some of them obviously very powerful friends, appreciated his pro-gun control principles and his competence. And then there is that fact that cannot be denied -- Burke arrives at his new job in September 2009, the same month that Fast and Furious is launched. Pretty big coincidence.
The operation went forward for more than a year and then came apart with the whistleblower's revelations after the murder of Brian Terry. And how did Burke react?
“What is so offensive about this whole project is that Grassley’s staff, acting as willing stooges for the Gun Lobby, have attempted to distract from the incredible success in dismantling [southwest border] gun trafficking operations….by not uttering one word of rightful praise and thanks to ATF — but instead lobbing this reckless despicable accusation that ATF is complicit in the murder of a fellow federal law enforcement officer,” Burke wrote in a Feb. 4 email to Weich and other top officials. “No commentary by Grassley on the lax laws, nor greedy gun shop owners, nor careless straw purchasers, and not boo about the evil gun traffickers for the Cartels. Just demonize ATF w/a strategically-timed repulsive letter emailed to the entire press world before we ever saw it.”
These were "evil gun traffickers for the Cartels" empowered by gunwalking on the part of the ATF and involving money given the straw buyers by FBI paid confidential informants, as Burke was in a position to well know. And yet, it is the fault of the "Gun Lobby." If there was any doubt that Burke was an anti-gun ideologue, I think that removes all doubt. There was a reason that the first time Burke was interviewed by investigators of the Issa Committee that he threw up and cut the questioning off. He has since been re-interviewed by the Committee and provided information that leads to more of Dennis Burke's powerful friends -- friends that are helping sustain him even in his disgrace.Burke resigned on 30 August 2011. By November, he was caught trying to discredit whistleblower John Dodson.
Former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke has admitted that he leaked sensitive documents about a government agent who had emerged as the leading whistle-blower against the government's controversial gun-smuggling case known as Operation Fast and Furious. A letter sent by Burke's attorney Tuesday to the Justice Department's acting inspector general acknowledges that Burke divulged secret records containing information about John Dodson, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Sources tell Sipsey Street that Burke had help with this leak. In his second interview with committee investigators, Burke stated for the record that he had a friend of his, Tom Ziemba, deliver the leaked documents about Dodson to Mike Levine, a Fox news producer stationed at the Department of Justice. Readers will recall that I have taken Levine to task more than once for exhibiting Journalist Stockholm Syndrome and being in thrall to his DOJ sources. When the DOJ wants to counterbalance a particularly dangerous story, Levine is one of their go-to guys. How Burke knew that to direct Ziemba is an interesting question, probably involving advice from DOJ or the White House.
In any case, Burke told investigators that Ziemba did not work for DOJ and was just a close friend. Close friend surely, but Ziemba is hardlt Caesar's wife when it comes to the DOJ and the Obama administration.Tom Ziemba is part owner of a Phoenix company called Ziemba Waid Public Affairs From their website:
ZWPA Strategies has recently spun off a sister company, ZWPA Political. It makes interesting reading. From the press release:ZWPA Strategies is a strategic consulting firm that provides clients with government relations and business development services. With offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Washington, D.C., the firm provides consulting services on a wide range of issues at the federal, state and local levels of government. The staff members at ZWPA Strategies are seasoned government relations professionals, policy analysts and experts in federal contracting and procurement.
Ziemba Waid Public Affairs and a-political today announced the creation of ZWPa-political a joint venture that will provide candidates, campaigns and public policy advocates with a complete media and strategy suite.ZWPa-political, located in the Phoenix office of Ziemba Waid Public Affairs, will offer clients a complete consultancy: a full range of services, from strategic campaign planning and coalition building to earned media and political advertising.“We are driven to deliver the best for our clients, and this partnership takes that capacity to an entirely new level,” said David Waid, founding partner of Ziemba Waid Public Affairs. “ZWPA’s relationships, deep knowledge of the Western and Washington, D.C. political landscape and real campaign experience, combined with a-political’s award-winning creativity and nationally-recognized ad production make a combination that is uniquely effective.”“This is a perfect partnership,” said a-political’s Danny Levinson. “ZWPA and a-political were founded with a similar vision. We believe the most effective political message is a well-communicated one. The alliance of our two companies brings fresh political expertise together with fresh messaging abilities that have proven successful for the best marketers in America. We are here to help our clients connect up emotionally with the voters, and we are uniquely qualified to do just that.”The ZWPa-political partnership is based on the belief that in order to successfully represent political clients, an organization must appreciate the intersection of media, politics and government. ZWPa-political brings together experience in all three.“To be successful in a multi-dimensional information age, lobbying alone is sometimes not enough,” said Tom Ziemba, also a ZWPA founding partner. “You need more options in your toolbox, including the capacity for coalition building, strategic earned media, and paid media campaigns that incorporate a strong online element. What we’re announcing today provides our clients with the very best of all these tools.”“We’re incredibly excited to be working together,” said Jimmy Siegel, creative director and partner in a-political. “Both companies have a passion about what we do, and we each bring skill sets that complement and enhance each other. Together, I believe we offer clients something truly unique.”a-political, born in 2006, brought together an Emmy nominated team with years of Madison Avenue experience to change the way politicians communicate. a-political represents progressive candidates and causes throughout the country. More information about the a-political team is available at www.a-political.com.Tom Ziemba and David Waid – founding partners of Ziemba Waid Public Affairs – have a vast range of private, political and government experience. Ziemba is a veteran of the Clinton administration who has managed campaigns from the local level to battleground presidential states. Ziemba engineers his campaigns with a fully-integrated approach that used paid media, new media, direct mail, telephone outreach and canvassing. Waid has served as a senior staff member for the Speaker of the New York Assembly and, more recently, as Executive Director and Chairman of the Arizona Democratic Party. In that role, the led the way to historic victories in 2006 by out-fundraising the GOP by a 4-1 margin, re-electing the governor, winning the largest number of Congressional pick-ups since 1992 and the most state legislative pick-ups since 1994.
A list of the "Most Influential People in Arizona" in 2008 listed Tom Ziemba as Number Two, citing his close relationship with then Governor Napolitano. Dennis Burke was listed as Number One. Ziemba also still has at least some pull with Napolitano and her Department of Homeland Security.
If you go to the DHS website and type "Ziemba" in the search box, it will lead to the PACTS Contractor Information Sheets.
Scroll down to Savvee Consulting and you will find Tom Ziemba is listed as the DHS Contracts Manager. Savvee is one of seven firms recently awarded a DHS "prime contract under FC-1" with a maximum award value of $1.5 billion. Nice work if you can get it -- if you have friends in high places like Janet Napolitano. No wonder Ziemba was willing to plant a leak -- an illegal leak, mind you -- with FOX News' DOJ resident and willing hostage, Mike Levine.
Ah, but wait, there's more. Do you know where Burke hangs his hat during the daytime hours nowadays? Why at the Arizona Sexual Assault Network in Phoenix. Which proudly proclaims on its site it is a "501 (C) 3 nonprofit operating in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Violence Against Women."
That's right, boys and girls, ASAN is funded in part by the DOJ. Another fine example of your tax dollars at work -- and of the reach of Dennis Burke's powerful friends.
Why did the administration pick Burke for the job of overseeing Fast and Furious? What was it about him that made them think he could be trusted with such a sensitive position? His anti-gun politics? His competence in executing the agendas of his superiors? His powerful friends? Why do they sustain him now, even in his disgrace when they are publicly trying to blame the whole thing on him? We will one day find out.
But one thing is certain, in politics -- even dirty, murderous politics -- as well as business there is this eternal truth: Personnel is Policy.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
SSI Exclusive: The Cover-up Stonewall Continues. Eric Holder's ATF Kabuki Play in advance of the February hearing designed to deflect blame from higher ups, including himself. Hoover, Chait and McMahon among the designated sacrificial goats.
DOJ acts on OIG report before it is even released.
"Why this one?" "Because he's named in the OIG Report, Holder told me so." "How'd he know? I thought the OIG process was sacrosanct." "Right. . . just slit his throat, will you? There's a whole bunch more to go." "But the OIG Report isn't even out." "Right. Look, if you're not going to slit his throat, hand me the knife."
Breaking: ATF reportedly relieves Fast and Furious managers prior to OIG report
Gun Rights Examiner and Sipsey Street Irregulars received information this evening that three of the prime Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives players in the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal have been relieved of duties.
William Hoover, ATF's Deputy Director during Fast and Furious who was recently reassigned as Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Office, Assistant Director in Charge of Field Operations Mark Chait, likewise reassigned as head of the Baltimore Field Office, and Deputy Assistant Director of Field Operations William McMahon have reportedly been sidelined pending the outcome of the anticipated report from the Office of Inspector General. Debbie Bullock a mid-level manager has reportedly been advised that she is now the acting SAC for Baltimore to assume Chait's functions.
My partner in inconvenient federal revelations has more here.
This correspondent also received a copy of a letter authored by Assistant Attorney General Weich, he of last February's now "withdrawn" letter to Senator Grassley falsely denying that the DOJ was aware of gunwalking. This letter is addressed to Senator Grassley and Congressman Issa and indicates to this observer that the stonewalling in the Gunwalker investigation continues. It is, as most of Weich's previous letters have been, personally insulting to the intelligence of both Grassley and Issa, and sticks a thumb in their collective eye while patently subverting the oversight process.
Here is a transcript of the body of the letter, sent on 21 December 2011.
Dear Chairman Issa and Senator Grassley:This responds to your letter to the Attorney General dated November 1, 2011, which requested a comprehensive schedule of records of all government surveillance of suspected straw purchases of firearms in the United States.The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) advises that it does not maintain a searchable database of cases involving surveillance of suspected straw purchases. ATF advises that creating the schedule you have requested would require a manual review of thousands of firearms trafficking case files in order to determine whether surveillance of suspected straw purchases occurred. This would entail an extraordinary commitment of time and resources that ATF is not equipped to undertake at this time. Further, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration advise that they do not conduct surveillance of straw purchases in the ordinary course of their law enforcement activities. We are not aware of any other Department components that would be likely to conduct surveillance of straw purchases. We also note that any surveillance records would likely implicate significant law enforcement and individual privacy interests.We regret that we have been unable to assist you with your request. Please do hesitate to contact this office it we may provide further information on this this, or any other matter.Sincerely,Ronald Weich
Now, recall readers that the Lone Wolf Trading Company was set up for video and audio by the ATF. Acting Director Melson himself would sign on and observe dealings going down. And the ATF can't find ANY cases "involving surveillance of suspected straw purchases?" This, like the pre-OIG Report identification of the sacrificial goats of ATF, is simply more stonewalling in service of the cover-up.
As David concludes his story about the sidelining of Hoover, Chait and McMahon, "This latest reported development lends itself to the observation that Holder is protecting something else, and that this is a tactical move in anticipation of the report's release and his next trip to the Hill."
My sources concur. "The White House intends for Holder to go into the next hearing with a preliminary OIG report in his hands, indicating that he's got it all cleaned up, which is bullshit," said one. Said another, "They'll be firing some big names to convince everybody there's nothing left to see here."
On the human interest side of the story, another source was derisive about the three goats apparently now selected by the White House for sacrifice, believing them to be long overdue for some sort of karmic reckoning, saying:
"Hoover ran the Bureau with his little head instead of his big one as he was more interested in banging Anna Marie Paskalis (ATF attorney) than he was in paying attention to the ATF mission. Chait is a douche bag who abandoned his post as the SAC in New Orleans after Katrina. . . (a) no-account, low character coward. McMahon is a do-nothing boob whose involvement in running western region field operations amounted to hitting the forward button on such items as the wire tap documents for F&F while he was jet setting around the world with his girlfriend on ATF’s dime."
The question is, can Holder's ATF kabuki theater succeed in containing the blame for the Gunwalker Scandal to ATF personnel and the Phoenix U.S. Attorney's office? Based on information that this correspondent has received, and which will form the basis for future stories, I doubt it. But it will be fun to watch them try.
Well, isn't this a fine pickle? Holder hearing shifted to 2 February.
Just got this release from the Committee:
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa today announced that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has been scheduled to testify on February 2 about the Department of Justice’s knowledge of, and response to, gunwalking that occurred in Operation Fast and Furious. The Attorney General will be asked to address management deficiencies within the Department that occurred both during and after the conclusion of Operation Fast and Furious. This will include the Department’s steadfast refusal to disclose information following the February 4, 2011 letter to Senator Grassley, which the Department has withdrawn because it contained false information denying allegations made by whistleblowers about Operation Fast and Furious. The committee’s investigation has found documentation that numerous members of the Justice Department knew the letter to Congress contained false information both before it was sent and later withdrawn.
Well, what a fine pickle this is. I already had the arrangements made for me and now the dates are no good. Rats.
Tanks on Main Streets, Freedom Fighters on Sipsey Streets.
John Whitehead is worried. Me? Although I'm just as concerned about the threat and psychology of federalized, militarized police (it is, after all the principal reason the Constitutional militias formed back in the early 90s), I'm on record as being happy that the federal government is distributing all this military equipment out where the armed citizenry can reach it easily. Tanks on Main Streets are easily balanced by freedom fighters on Sipsey Streets. Which is something the powers-that-be will discover if they ever get too froggy.
"There is also concern about whether Mitt Romney would be supportive of the Second Amendment as well.” As well there should be.
"Firearms Sales Ring in 2012 With a Bang."
Keane agrees that the same concerns, including economic uncertainty, drive firearms sales. The gun industry is one that could not only be considered “recession proof” but actually thrives in economic downturns. Politics, however, certainly plays a role, and while the election of Obama may have resulted in a post-election firearms sales boom in 2008 and 2009, the 2012 campaign season could kick sales into high gear again.“There is concern about the Second Amendment, of course,” says Keane. “There is a concern as to what President Obama might do in a second term, but there is also concern about whether Mitt Romney would be supportive of the Second Amendment as well.”
As well there should be. The guy's wobblier on the subject of firearm rights than Dubya and George Herbert Walker put together. Plus, if Romney gets the nomination and is somehow elected over the objections of conservatives/libertarians -- even to the extent of a probable third party -- just what will he think that he owes gun rights advocates? Exactly dick.
Praxis: Tactical Stairmaster
Suggested by a current-serving NCO -- "10 MINUTE TACTICAL TOOLBOX: Running up/down Stairs Full Blast Without Looking at Your Feet."
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Attention Fibbies! Sipsey Street $10,000 Reward Offered for Whatever Blackmail Photos the FBI has on Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff.
Utah's Republican Attorney General Stands Up for Embattled Holder.
"I'm so baaaaaahhd."
Daisy, the rumored love ewe of Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff.
Sipsey Street will pay a $10,000 reward to any FBI agent who can provide a copy of whatever blackmail photo is being used to coerce Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff into playing kissy kissy with Eric Holder. Unsubstantiated rumor on the streets in Salt Lake says that it may be Shurtleff's pet ewe Daisy. Contact Mike Vanderboegh at this blog for details. ;-)
Hassles.
Trying to get a Sipsey Street Praxis site up and going on Wordpress. Pain in the ass. Will let you know when we're ready to launch.
He'll really start to hate it when he gets to San Quentin.
(Satanic eyes a nice touch.)
'I hate America', says German 'prime suspect' in Hollywood arson case whose mother faced being deported.
(Although I suppose he is a natural candidate for the Aryan Brotherhood.)
Brownell makes a prediction. Kipling's caution and Mae West's advice.
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition" —Rudyard Kipling
2012 To Be Astronomical Year Of Ammunition Sales.
Sipsey Street Quiz:What is 1000 rounds of 7.62 NATO ball ammunition per rifle packed in stripper clips and bandoleers?a. A good start.b. A false sense of security.c. A bitch for one man to carry.d. All of the above.
"And remember, big boy, packaging . . . is . . . everything!"
Santorum -- not the "anti-Romney" when it comes to firearm rights.
A tip of the boonie hat to Keep and Bear Arms for this link, "Santorum says 11th-hour robo calls falsely claim he’s anti-gun." KABA also provides historical perspective by linking this GOA alert from 1999, when Santorum was in the Senate.
(Friday, May 21, 1999)-- On May 19, Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle (SD) said, "There may not be much difference between Democrats and Republicans anymore." Gun owners need to let the above words sink in. It remains to be seen if Republicans in the House show more spine than their Senate counterparts. In the Senate, Daschle made the comment as he reflected on the Republican "concessions and reversals on guns in the past week." Not much difference indeed. Led by high-ranking Republicans such as Majority Leader Trent Lott (MS) and Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (UT), thirty-one Republicans voted with the Democrats to pass a crime bill that was loaded with gun rights restrictions:* Private sales at gun shows will be BANNED unless the buyer submits to a background registration check;* Dealers who sell handguns will be forced to include "lock up your safety" devices with every handgun sold, and gun owners are now encouraged to "lock up their safety" or else face the possibility they could be liable in court if another person steals their gun and misuses the firearm;* A ban on the further importation of ANY magazine that holds over 10 rounds; and* A various assortment of other anti-gun provisions, including, a ban on the mere possession of certain firearms by young adults, massive increases in funding for the BATF, and more.[Readers should also check the GOA web page next week for a final compilation and more detailed analysis of everything that passed the Senate.]What's the difference? One day after the Republicans handed President Clinton and Sarah Brady an incredible media relations victory, many gun owners have publicly been asking: If there's not much difference between the two parties on Capitol Hill, then why should I make a distinction between the two parties at the ballot box?
With friends like this, who needs enemas?
The Fifth Estate. "The biggest little story of 2011."
"Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all." -- Thomas Carlyle in his book On Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840.
Gunwalker, of course.
In our new age, the old media is slowly and reluctantly learning that they can no longer unilaterally decide what is news and what isn’t. Perhaps more importantly, Issa has reminded us that in a free society, it is the people’s duty to police the fourth estate in order to facilitate the fourth estate’s duty: to protect the people.
So, we're, what, the Fifth Estate?
LATER: No sooner had I written that last sentence when I went to find an illustration that fits and came up with this book cover:
Great minds and all that . . .
Monday, January 2, 2012
Dave Workman: "Mount Rainier shooting opens door for agenda pandering."
Well, of course. Why wouldn't it? This one comes fully equipped with a "stupid human tricks" story and a scary picture.
Nearly eight hours earlier, King County sheriff's deputies responded to shots fired at a party in Skyway, where an early-morning session of "show and tell" with guns among several armed partygoers devolved into a shootout, according to detectives. Four people were shot, and three people fled the scene. One of them was identified as Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24.
Expect more prohibitionist bleating about Saigas to go with it.
“Enforcement by ambush.” Well, if they're not going to repeal the federal firearms laws, at least we can agree that it is way past time for serious oversight hearings of ATF.
Gun makers baffled by ATF criteria.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in charge of determining whether a gun model is legal, but the agency won’t say much about its criteria.Despite overseeing an industry that includes machine guns and other deadly weapons, ATF regulations for the manufacture of weapons are often unclear, leading to reliance on a secretive system by which firearms manufacturers can submit proposed weapons for testing and find out one at a time whether they comply with the law, critics say.The ATF recommends that manufacturers voluntarily submit weapons for case-by-case determination. But those judgments are private and, it turns out, sometimes contradictory. Critics say nearly identical prototypes can be approved for one manufacturer but denied for another.That process, known as “letter rulings,” results in various findings about what makes a weapon. Program critics, including the ATF’s former assistant director of criminal investigations, said one determination contended that a shoestring was a machine gun.The letters are sent only to the person submitting the weapon, making it hard for other gun manufacturers, designers and dealers looking for guidance to make judgments about the agency’s evolving interpretations of the federal code. That lack of publication also means that no one knows when the agency issues rulings at odds with similar cases. . .
Not to mention subject to the whims of ATF managers wishing to prosecute an "economic Waco" against designers and manufacturers perceived to be "the enemy."
Len Savage, a Georgia firearms designer and manufacturer, said what ATF allows and disallows “follows no rhyme or reason” and described the regulatory technique as “enforcement by ambush.” The owner of Historic Arms LLC, which makes and designs semi-automatic replicas of famous firearms, called the letters “worthless” because agency officials “can change their mind on a whim.”Mr. Savage said it is impossible to know what is compliant and that the ATF can spontaneously rescind approvals for any project.He said the ATF told him in a July 2005 letter that he could convert machine guns legally owned by collectors into belt-fed weapons, but said in April 2006 that it was overturning its decision “upon reconsideration.”“It cost me $500,000 in orders,” he said, adding that he was forced to destroy several weapons he had built because ATF would not grandfather them.He said he had seen letters showing that two different companies submitted weapons for testing, with one declared legal and the other ruled illegal even though they were “dimensionally and operationally identical.”
Here's the part I like:
ATF spokesman Drew Wade declined to answer specific questions about letter rulings, citing ongoing litigation such as an Arizona criminal case in which the legality of modified weapons is at issue.
Can you say "U.S. vs. Clark," Wade? I know you can.
I can't wait for THAT little bit of selective prosecution to play itself out, to the discomfiture of both the agency and its highly placed NFATCA snitches, Dan Shea and John Brown.
FBI 1990s Blackmail Ops Apparently Extended to Newt Gingrich.
Newt Gingrich, Marianne and the Arms Dealer: A Buried FBI Investigation The purpose of the investigation, as near as I can determine, was to get Newt on the hook, but not reel him in. A very useful operation from both the FBI and the Clinton Administration's point of view.
Interesting.
New Nationwide FEMA Camps Should Raise Eyebrows. So, which way is the barbed wire arranged? To keep people in, or out? Both?
Sunday, January 1, 2012
That historical stuttering sound. 2012 or 1932?
History never exactly repeats itself, though it occasionally stutters. -- Anonymous.
United States Army cavalry and tanks mass to disperse the Bonus Army, Washington, DC, 1932.
"The spectre of 1932: How a loss of faith in politicians and democracy could make 2012 the most frightening year in living memory."
Supporter of "assault weapons bans" criticizes Eric Holder's clandestine operation to achieve a new one.
"Which way is the wind blowing today?"
I commend to your attention this New Year's morning, gentle readers, the unabashedly hypocritical irony of the unprincipled political windsock which is Mitt Romney. First, by directing you to this story -- "Mitt Romney: Eric Holder should resign for Fast and Furious mishap."
And then, to this one: Romney signs off on permanent assault weapons ban.
Or, more comprehensively, to this one.
I guess Romney is just upset about Obama's methods, not his goals.
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