In reference to the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder, the “lame stream media” news outlets failed to
report to you the real reason for
Holder's departure. For example, although CBS News mentioned that Holder had
been the only attorney general in U.S. history to be held in contempt of
Congress, the network failed to cite this as a key reason Holder decided to
bail. The omission speaks volumes.
Holder's resignation comes on the heels of a ruling today by a federal
judge that the contempt of Congress citation against Holder can proceed to the next level.
House leaders had been stymied by the refusal of Holder and the Department of
Justice (DOJ) to comply with requests for appropriate documents in the ongoing
investigations into the Fast and Furious debacle. The
House further was thwarted by the refusal of DOJ personnel to cooperate with
Congress in the ongoing investigations.
The Obama administration had argued that
the courts should stop the contempt citation from moving forward in the courts.
Thus, the ruling today is a victory for the U.S. House of Representatives,
which had found itself unable to move forward in the Fast and Furious
investigation due to stonewalling and the refusal to cooperate on the part of
Holder and other top DOJ officials. The ruling, further, is a major setback for
Holder and Obama, who had been hiding themselves behind "executive
privilege" in refusing to cooperate with Congress.
Judicial Watch had taken the
Obama administration to court in order to force the DOJ's hand
in turning over the pertinent documents, which it had withheld from Congress.
Now that the court has ruled against Holder and Obama, the House Committee can
proceed to the next level of its investigation. And Obama and Holder can no longer claim executive
privilege in continuing to withhold evidence.
That evidence not only includes the alleged involvement of the very top
tier of the Obama administration in authorizing illegal activity but the full
account of the circumstances surrounding the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent
Brian Terry, who was killed with one of the guns that the administration used
in the Fast and Furious scandal.
Whistleblowers in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and
Explosives (ATF) came forward to report that the agency had
been involved in a massive scheme, planned and coordinated at the very top
levels of the Obama administration, to place U.S. guns into the hands of
dangerous Mexican drug cartels. The government claims it was "a tracking
attempt, a sting operation gone bad."
But whistleblowers and investigative reporters such as David Codrea and
Mike Vanderboegh discovered that there was no sting and no attempt to track
illegal firearms. Rather, the scheme was implemented in order to attempt to
"prove" the false narrative of administration officials that
"most of the illegal guns used by Mexican drug cartels come from the
United States." This theme was to be hammered home as far and wide as
possible in order to build support for more restrictive U.S. gun laws. Not only
were officials at the top level of the ATF involved in the scheme but so were
top officials at the DOJ, Hillary Clinton at the State Department, Janet
Napolitano at the Department of Homeland Security, and others, not to mention
Obama.
ATF whistleblowers began to notice that no illegal weapons were being
recovered in the so-called "sting operation," which led them to do
some covert digging around at the agency to discover what, exactly, was going
on. What they discovered was widespread corruption, illegal activity, and
covert attempts to undercut the gun rights of ordinary citizens.
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