Jun 30, 2012 -- 11:21AM, voice-crying wrote:

Jun 28, 2012 -- 9:41AM, fodaoson wrote:

"...That may be true but the culprits will be  Republican  senators, congress and Anti Obama PACs and news outlets." 

So True!!!

And,

I think Issa is slowly melting

www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/sanchez-iss...

 

From VC link   www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/sanchez-iss...

Committee chairman Issa (R-Calif.) saw to that when the inquiry began. He laid down the ground rule that no testimony would be admitted that commented on gun-control laws or legislation. Instead, Issa has focused his inquisitorial zeal to achieve one aim: to give the Obama administration a black eye.

Of course Issa laid down the ground rule that no testimony would be admitted that commented on gun control laws.    I bet the NRA are shitting out bricks that any commentary would come out on lax gun laws that allow over 2000 guns a day crossing the border.   I am reasonably sure that Issa takes his marching orders and campaign monies from the NRA.

Fast and Furious was an ill-fated operation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The idea was to track multiple sales of weaponry made in the United States and then trafficked, often through straw buyers, to drug cartels. The crux of the inquiry is to find out if agents knowingly allowed guns to reach criminals, when they should have stopped the transfers.

An extensive investigation by Fortune magazine has shredded the case that ATF agents knowingly let weapons "walk" -- i.e., fall into criminal hands. And Issa has admitted that he had no evidence that Holder knew that they had walked. What, then, is the point of the sideshow? Here's the context that Issa would rather not have discussed: The United States is a virtually overflowing weapons warehouse -- always open, always selling. Estimates are that 2,000 guns pass south across the border into Mexico every single day.

Is Issa questioning Holder why all the extensive reports from the ATF turned to the US Attorneys about the straw buyers were deemed by the US attorneys as not enough evidence?     Did Issa ask Holder why the US Attorneys could not or would not prosecute?   or would that be considered commentary on US gun laws?   I for one would like to know why Holder's US Attorneys sat on the evidence and did not or would not do anything.     

Jul 2, 2012 -- 2:19PM, withwonderingawe wrote:

 Dennis K. Burke, who as a lawyer for the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the 1990s was a key player behind the enactment of the 1994 assault-weapons ban, and who then went on to become Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano’s chief of staff, and a contributor to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential primary campaign, and then a member of Obama's transition team focusing on border-enforcement issues, ended up in the Obama administration as the U.S. attorney in Arizona responsible for overseeing Operation Fast and Furious....

Mmmmmmmmmm?

1. is there a point here?

and

2. Have you made any progress documenting your previous risible claim that when guns were "walked" by the Bush administration "tracking devices" were used on them resulting in arrests?