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| Katie thanked the late Andrew Breitbart in her acceptance speech. |
| Drug Cartel Boss Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez a/k/a "El Diego" |
| Obama Cabinet Member Eric Holder a/k/a Attorney General of the United States |
| This Obama flag is more symbolic than we thought... |
Fox News sums up the situation rather well, but so far I've not seen evidence of leftists who claimed that Nakoula Besseley Nakoula's lame-ass movie caused the deaths of the Americans in Benghazi repenting. What this means is that the primary target might not have been Christopher Stevens*, but rather retired Navy SEAL Glen Doherty, who was tasked with trying to get shoulder launched anti-aircraft missiles out of the hands of militants. And it also prompts the question, "Who supplied those armaments?"Of course why the White House wants to change the topic is also that security at Benghazi was completely lacking. It was fool hardy to have that facility so lightly guarded. Especially if Ambassador Stevens thought he might be on an al Qaeda kill list. The weapons agents and retired SEALs Glen Doherty and Sean Smith must have thought they might be targeted too.
I'm not saying that the administration did. It would have been madness for them to have supplied shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles to rebels among whom were elements of al-Qaeda when US was engaged in enforcing a no-fly zone in Libya, in order to help those rebels get rid of Gaddafi. Still, given the variety of very obvious lies we've been fed by this administration, and given its fecklessness on other occasions, it seems to me within the realm of possibility.
Today, White House liars are still telling us that the terror op in Benghazi was "opportunistic," and that none of these Muslim-world-wide demonstrations is anti-American. Well, sure it was opportunistic. The State Department neglected to give the embassy anything approaching adequate security, and al-Qaeda took advantage of the opening.More from The Other McCain: It is not necessary for the U.S. to have directly supplied the weapons in order for the administration to be at fault for having indirectly supplied the weapons:
It should also be known and understood that communications between and among the leadership of terror networks is performed on the Internet by means of dynamic chat rooms and similar websites. The most clandestine communications are found on the sites of video games and other computer games. Here, open chatter, instruction, and planning take place under the guise and cover of gaming. Such is the case in the matter of weapons and the terror attacks we are witnessing in the Middle East.
One of the four Americans murdered in Benghazi was Sean Smith, who was known for his online gaming and social media skills. He and Ambassador Stevens, as well as the two other special operators from Wind Zero, were executing a CIA and State Department mission to track not only Qaddafi’s weapons, but to trace any and all weapons trafficking in the regions. Smith was the information officer at the Benghazi mission and likely was too close to having uncovered intelligence that pinpointed key players both in and outside of Libya. Intelligence was shared with the CIA, which does enforce the drone program, whether inside Libya, stemming from the mission to remove Qaddafi, or in other hot-spots in the Middle East.
The single Obama regime method of processing the ‘kill list’ is to use drone strikes and having proven intelligence as provided by Sean Smith and the two retired SEALS via Wind Zero connecting the dots of weapons, money, and names, led to the violent event and their deaths in Benghazi. It was never about a video. That pretense was concocted as cover and the State Department, as well as radical Muslims had their hand in disseminating that disinformation.Smith reported this the day of the attack: Smith, an avid gamer and married father of two, typed out a harrowing message to the friend: “assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ’police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.” At one point, Mittani said, Smith wrote the words “f–k“ and ”gunfire,” then was disconnected. The US is investigating whether there was inside help on the attacks.
| Holder flaunts the law and the press remains silent out of loyalty to Barack Obama |
| Jon Corzine Lost more than a billion dollars and protected by fellow Democrats |
| Attorney General Eric Holder Mexican gun runner, protects Black Panthers from voter intimidation charges, and partisan hack |
| Dennis Burke: Former US Attorney and Obama donor who was for gun control/assault weapon ban, also ran Fast & Furious Many in the Obama Administration really do not want us to get those emails and communications, do they? Secret Service shutting down protests?
Update (via Protein Wisdom):
From long-time commenter LBascom, comparing the Border Patrol and the Secret Service :
A tidy summation without the horrors of one of my thousand-word sentagraphs. Nicely done.
Victor Davis Hanson has some warning to the GOP: 5. Fast and Furious. The Republicans may find themselves pursuing the moral and ethical high ground right into a political quagmire, reminiscent of once trying to convince the American people that a sitting president cannot lie under oath with impunity, even as the country sided with Bill Clinton without worry that he had been serviced in the Oval Office by his own in-house intern. |
Courts have consistently held that the assertion of the constitutionally-based executive
privilege — the only privilege that ever can justify the withholding of documents from a
congressional committee by the Executive Branch — is only applicable with respect to
documents and communications that implicate the confidentiality of the President’s decisionmaking process, defined as those documents and communications to and from the President and his most senior advisors. Even then, it is a qualified privilege that is overcome by a showing of the committee’s need for the documents. The letters from Messrs. Holder and Cole cited no case law to the contrary.
Accordingly, your privilege assertion means one of two things. Either you or your mostAs they say, read the whole thing...
senior advisors were involved in managing Operation Fast & Furious and the fallout from it,
including the false February 4, 2011 letter provided by the Attorney General to the Committee,
or, you are asserting a Presidential power that you know to be unjustified solely for the purpose
of further obstructing a congressional investigation...
Poll: only 29% approve of Obama invoking executive privilege. The other 79% are waiting for him to rename his dog "Checkers". #tcot
— Fred Thompson (@fredthompson) June 27, 2012
| h/t Protein Wisdom Update: Volokh Conspiracy: Fast & Furious explained... |
My friend Bill Otis was a Justice Department lawyer for many years. He spent a good portion of those years as a prosecutor. He also served as an attorney in the White House Counsel’s shop, so he knows all about dealing with unpleasant congressional inventigations and demands for documents.
In short, Bill is extremely very well positioned to comment knowledgably on the dispute between Rep. Issa’s Committee and Eric Holder, and on the White House’s decision to assert executive privilege. Here is what Bill had to say:
Even with his fawning press, [Presdient Obama] will pay a price for this one. He knows this, meaning that the documents now to be withheld must be dynamite. They have to show either that Holder knew what was going on with Fast and Furious and approved it, or that he directly committed perjury in his Congressional testimony, or both. I just can’t see any other explanation for such a risky move.
Wasn’t the Washington Post just covering big time the 40th anniversary of Watergate? I wonder how much coverage this one will get.
UPDATE: Some have speculated that Obama’s intervention means that the president himself has something to hide.As Fred Thompson once asked: "What did the President know, and when did he know it?"
| Drudge reports on this... |
| Eric Holder, Contemptible |
Unless AG Holder fully cooperates w/#FastandFurious investigation, House will hold contempt vote next week j.mp/MslxuL @GOPLeader
— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) June 20, 2012
| Update: Drudge had this image... |
| Hot Air: I am going to hide behind executive privilege |
Would that the Obama administration had cared as much about protecting the security secrets involving the Predator drone program, the bin Laden raid, the operations on the Afghan border and in Yemen, and the cyberwar against Iran as it is does about protecting the unknowns of Fast and Furious. A cynic might suggest the leaked release of national-security secrets were thought to have enhanced presidential stature, while those of gunrunning might diminish it; so we are left with vital national-security operations now known to all, and peripheral operations along the border known not even to Congress.Update (the hypocrisy of Barack Obama):
| There is a lot to hold Eric Holder in contempt for... |
CBS News has learned the House Oversight Committee will vote next week on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. It's the fourth time in 30 years that Congress has launched a contempt action against an executive branch member.And the current Obama White House leaks are way bigger than the Valerie Plame leaks...
This time, the dispute stems from Holder failing to turn over documents subpoenaed on October 12, 2011 in the Fast and Furious "gunwalking" investigation.
| A younger Eric Holder Pretending now to be upholding the Constitution |
| A younger Ron Glass Pretending then to be a cop |