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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
This just in from the Issa Committee
Tuesday’s Hearing Featuring DOJ Inspector General Rescheduled for Wednesday, September 19WASHINGTON – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa today announced that the hearing previously scheduled for tomorrow to examine the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on Operation Fast and Furious has been rescheduled for Wednesday, September 19. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz has confirmed his attendance for the September 19th hearing where he will discuss his report of the investigation into reckless conduct in Operation Fast and Furious.Hearing Details“IG Report: The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General Examines the Failures of Operation Fast and Furious”Wednesday, September 19th in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building and streaming online at http://oversight.house.gov.Witness* Inspector General Michael Horowitz, U.S. Department of Justice
Charles G. Koch: Corporate Cronyism Harms America
I'll go him one better. Corporate cronyism is treason, and ought to be punished as such. The Founders made the same critique of the Crown and the British mercantilists.
Obama Thugs Rough Up Gallup For Polls They Don’t Like
Casting doubt on the future prospects of Dear Leader will get you a visit from the Justice Department.
In a scene right out of a typical authoritarian regime, Fox News reports that “employees at the venerable Gallup polling firm suggested they felt threatened by Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod when he questioned the methodology of a mid-April poll showing Mitt Romney leading the president – according to internal emails published Thursday.” That poll that sent Axelrod ballistic showed Romney leading Obama 48-43 percent.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Fast & Furious: Who knew what? Report could detail the chain of decisions behind Fast, Furious
But don't hold your breath.
The other high-ranking administration official to have learned of Operation Fast and Furious was Kevin O'Reilly, a national security staff member in the White House. Emails written in 2010 show that William Newell, then the special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Phoenix office, told O'Reilly about Fast and Furious.The administration refused to let congressional investigators interview O'Reilly.For some conservative critics of the Obama administration, tying Operation Fast and Furious more directly to the White House is the dreamed-of objective. A group called The Conservative Caucus is offering a $100,000 reward for information showing that the White House was involved in Fast and Furious as an effort to further a gun-control agenda.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
"Major Strasser has been shot. . . Round up the usual suspects."
"Major Strasser has been shot. . . Round up the usual suspects."
Mexico arrests suspect in 'Fast and Furious' killing.
Mexican federal police announced Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious.Jesus Leonel Sanchez Meza is one of the five men charged with killing Terry in December 2010 during a shootout in Arizona near the Mexican border. One is on trial in Arizona, and the other three remain fugitives. Sanchez was arrested Thursday in Sonora state.Mexican officials, in cooperation with the FBI, made the arrest in Rocky Point, Sonora, on Thursday afternoon, said federal sources familiar with the case but not part of the investigation. Sanchez was taken to Mexico City to begin extradition proceedings.
"Deja vu all over again." Sign of the times. "Smith & Wesson Posts Insane Earnings, Revenues Skyrocket."
"It's deja vu all over again." -- Yogi Berra.
As the winds of war began to stir in the months leading up to the Civil War...Sam Colt was shipping many of his guns to the South. Around this time Colt is believed to have changed the Company address on his guns from "New York City" where its sales office was headquartered...to the factory address in Hartford, CT in an effort to appease his Southern pro-slavery customers. The reason, as we understand it, was that many Southerners viewed NYC as the epicenter to the abolitionist Movement. After Lincoln's election in November 1860, Southern purchases seem to have intensified right up to the outbreak of the war in April the following spring. However, once the war began and the South officially became the enemy, Colt quickly changed his barrel addresses back to New York City. Love or hate him, Colt certainly understood the sentiments of his customers on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line and he worked hard to fulfill their needs. -- Antique Arms, Inc.
Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge posts the above chart of Smith and Wesson revenues with this comment:
"When the final bubble does pop (and here we make the wild assumption that no intelligent extraterrestrial life will be found to bail out the central banks in time), at least everyone will be locked and loaded."
Durden is referring to this press release from Smith and Wesson.
The Blaze picks up the same story and posts it under the headline: "Smith & Wesson Posts Insane Earnings, Revenues Skyrocket."
I guess there's a whole lot of folks who think, like Yogi Berra, that it's deja vu all over again.
A Confederate and his Colt.
David Codrea Exclusive: "Chief Counsel’s Office still calling shots at ATF despite report, source alleges." B. Todd Jones -- just another sock puppet (in a long line of sock puppets) for the anti-gun Chief Counsel's Office.
B. Todd Jones -- just another sock puppet (in a long line of sock puppets) for the anti-gun Chief Counsel's Office.
"Crediting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Deputy Director Thomas E. Brandon for a problems analysis summary is not justified, an insider source told Gun Rights Examiner yesterday. The 'Quick Hits' report admitting to retaliation and ethical violations by the Chief Counsel’s Office was the result of a Field Agent Advisory Panel, and Brandon’s role was not to direct or participate in the document’s development, but simply to receive it after it had been prepared."
“The question should be, ‘what has he done with it since he got it?’” the source continued. “To my knowledge, not much of anything.”Adding to concerns over inappropriate and problematic influence by the Chief Counsel’s Office over day-to-day operations and management decisions, another allegation corroborates concerns that nothing is or will be changed under the caretaker stewardship on behalf of the Holder Justice Department by Acting Director B. Todd Jones.“After the issues detailed by the FAAP were first posted on the intranet homepage - they were quickly taken down by order of the Chief Counsel's Office,” the source maintained, citing retaliations that have occurred since Brandon was presented with that document.“DOJ runs ATF through B. Todd and don't mistake for a second that Brandon is second-in-command,” the source continued. “He answers to Greg Serres [Deputy Chief Counsel] who is always at BTJ's side.“Don't give agents and people hope where there is none,” the source cautioned. “Management has heard all those ‘Quick Hits’ before. They didn't do anything about it then and haven't this time around either.”Whether Darrell Issa and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will investigate the report’s observations of undue influence and ethical violations, whether they will raise this as an important issue with the Inspector General and whether it will figure prominently in the long-anticipated OIG report on Operation Fast and Furious, and whether they will do anything to introduce new hope and bring the Chief Counsel’s Office to account remain to be seen.
So it would seem that B. Todd Jones is just another sock puppet (in a long line of sock puppets) for the anti-gun Chief Counsel's Office. And Tom Brandon, whatever his inclinations are, is just another ATF bureaucrat unwilling to do the right thing if it jeopardizes his pension.
Friday, September 7, 2012
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