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Editorial: End the secrets on Fast and Furious - The Denver Post

Editorial: End the secrets on Fast and Furious - The Denver Post

President Obama'sdeclaration of executive privilegein the Fast and Furious scandal may have been envisioned as a checkmate move in an escalating confrontation, but instead it had the opposite effect.

A U.S. House oversight committee voted Wednesday tohold U.S. Attorney General Eric Holderin contempt for failing to provide relevant documents about a scandalous government gun-smuggling investigation.

The dispute didn't have to get to that point.

The administration has beeninexcusably holding outon fully disclosing who knew what and how high that knowledge went up the food chain.

Congressional investigators — admittedly Republicans going after a Democratic administration in an election year — suspect the Department of Justice is sandbagging when it comes to releasing pertinent documents about the investigation. There is good reason for that belief, which we will address.

The so-calledFast and Furious investigationwas a 15-month operation in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives engaged in a dangerous strategy of allowing the bad guys, thought to be buying guns on behalf of Mexican drug lords, "walk" with what ended up totaling about 2,000 guns. The idea was to track the weapons back to bigger fish — the drug kingpins.

U.S. Border Patrol officer Brian Terry was killed in 2010 by a Mexican drug cartel armed with weapons from the failed investigation. The guns have shown up at the scenes of other crimes as well.

Fast and Furious was a disaster, and one that must be fully explored. Yes, there has been friction on this count, with Democrats saying the GOP cannot be satisfied, and Republicans sayingHolder's offerto brief lawmakers on information in documents the committee wants is inadequate.

The GOP is right. Holder ought to disclose the documents. Also, the use of executive privilege is questionable, based on what has been disclosed thus far. The privilege pertains to the president, and the White House is not supposed to have been involved in the operation.

Furthermore, though the DOJ says it has given thousands of pages of documents to Congress, there are far more it hasn't provided.

The administration can avoid a full House vote on the contempt charge by turning over the requested documents, and it should. The gamesmanship must end.

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Yes, Obama’s Bio Lies Constitute a Pattern « Commentary Magazine

Yes, Obama’s Bio Lies Constitute a Pattern « Commentary Magazine

Never let it be said the New York Times is afraid to tackle an unflattering story about President Obama, even if it’s often a delayed reaction. The paper’s political blog that the new biography of the president by David Maraniss uncovered the fact that much ofDreams From My Father, the highly praised Barack Obama autobiography, is either fabricated or exaggerated. The Times’s Michael Shear opines that having its author now sitting in the White House has brought Dreamsmore scrutiny than its author could have envisioned when he wrote it in 1995. But the problem with contemporary analyses of the questionable personal history in the book is not so much the peril associated with being a famous political author but whether the book provides proof of a pattern of falsehoods and distortions about his past that has been one of the hallmarks of the president’s public career.

The answer to that question is contained near the bottom of the piece in which Shear lets drop that proof of such a pattern was already provided by his own newspaper last year. Though the Times buried the story when it broke and then never followed up or editorialized on the scandal, it was their own reporter Janny Scott whose research on the life of the president’s mother Ann Dunham revealed that the oft-told story of her dying because of the failure of her health insurance company to pay for her cancer treatmentwas a flat out lie. But while Shear is right that this year’s election will not turn on how Maraniss’s book is received, the unwillingness of the Times and other mainstream publications to call out Obama for writing fiction and calling it autobiography gives us a good indication of how much of an advantage having a quiescent media is for an incumbent president

Henninger: It's a Single-Issue Election - WSJ.com

Henninger: It's a Single-Issue Election - WSJ.com

"...this (election) is a substance election. It's not about whether one "likes" Barack Obama or can't warm to Mitt Romney. Voters have to pick two competing growth models, which means paying attention to what the candidates are saying about economic growth."

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Obama Made Pre-Inaugural Pledge to Mexican President on Stemming Flow of Arms From U.S.;’ Holder, Napolitano Personally Worked Issue From First Month of Presidency | CNSNews.com

Obama Made Pre-Inaugural Pledge to Mexican President on Stemming Flow of Arms From U.S.;Holder, Napolitano Personally Worked Issue From First Month of Presidency | CNSNews.com


(CNSNews.com) - Three and a half years before he invoked executive privilege in refusing to hand over to Congress internal Justice Department documents about Operation Fast and Furious--and just eight days before his inauguration--President-elect Barack Obama met with Mexican President Calderon over lunch at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C., and “pledged” that he would take action aimed at stopping the flow of guns into that country from the United States.

Public statements from both Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano demonstrate that they were both personally working on this issue from their first month in office.

Conservative Quote of the Day

"If a state militia guarantee rather than an individual right of citizens to
keep and bear arms were the purpose of the second Amendment, it would have been
totally unnecessary and irrelevant to include any guarantee of “the right of
the people to keep and bear arms,” since by its very nature a militia is
necessarily an armed force and without arms it would be impossible to carry out
its constitutional functions of suppressing insurrections and repelling
invasions."
-- Bernard J. Bordonet
Source: The Right to Possess Arms: The Intent of the Framers of the Second Amendment, 12 U. WEST. L.A. L. REV. 1, 14 (1990