Gunwalker Update: Waiting For Godot, Working Around Boehner

Via Sipsey Street, from CBS News: (CBS News) Rep. Darrell Issa, the chair of the House oversight committee, is accusing the Department of Justice (DOJ) of failing to fully cooperate in the ongoing investigation of the for the so-called “Fast and Furious” gunwalking operation by likening the situation to the Samuel Beckett play “Waiting for [...]

The ATF and Dirtbag Informants

Via Sipsey Street Irregulars, from the Seattle Times: A felon with a lengthy history of violence against women, Jackson was sentenced to 10 years in prison April 13 for sexually abusing an 18-year-old woman and holding her against her will for days inside a cheap South Seattle motel last year. The woman told investigators Jackson [...]

Gunwalker Update: When You’ve Lost Communist Van Jones…

Via the Daily Caller: During a radio interview Wednesday night, former Obama “green jobs czar” Van Jones broke ranks with current and former administration officials and ripped Attorney General Eric Holder for his handling of Operation Fast and Furious, the failed gun-walking operation that trafficked thousands of firearms across the Mexican border. “I believe that if [...]

Gunwalker Update: Justice Department Contempt Draft, ATF Planning More Gun Control

Both from David Codrea, one of the original reporters on the story of Operation Gunwalker/Fast and Furious. Issa Sends Contempt Draft To Supportive Democrats: House Oversight Committee on Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent a letter today to Jason Altmire, D-Pa., and 31 House Democrats who wrote to President Obama in June, 2011 “to [...]

Gunwalker Update: Congress Drafting Contempt Citation… About Time, Ya’ Think?

HotAir has it here. About damn time.  Now when are they going to serve it? The CBS clip omits one important fact, and instead fills it in with a lie.  Sharyl Attkisson, while important, didn’t break the story of Fast and Furious.  That was left to David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh. Mike V. at Sipsey [...]

Gunwalker Update: Katie Pavlich – “Fast And Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up”

Townhall journalist Katie Pavlich just recently released a book – “Fast And Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up“.  I haven’t gotten a copy yet, but a lot of the material it covers will no doubt be familiar to long-time readers here, but it should concisely wrap up a lot of elements of [...]

Gunwalker Update: The Third Gun, White House Targeting Investigative Journalist Katie Pavlich

Via the Washington Free Beacon: The Department of Justice is using the liberal “watchdog” group Media Matters for America to deflect questions about the Fast and Furious scandal, including those regarding a gun that might have been used in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. A new book raises questions as to whether [...]

Gunwalker Update: Senator Chuck Grassley’s Speech & Rep. Darrell Issa’s Speech at 2012 NRA Convention

“Thomas Jefferson once said that,  quote ‘The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution.’  Now politicians and bureaucrats prefer to talk about anything but the Constitution because you know what that Constitution does? It places inconvenient restrictions on their ability to concentrate more power in government.  They even blame the [...]

Why DHS Ordered 450 Million Rounds of .40 S&W From ATK

I’ve seen this story reported several times, and have been asked about it by friends. The first place I saw the story was on Sipsey Street Irregulars, and here, then here, here, Alex Jones got in on it here, the Blaze got in on it, and so on. I posted why over at Sipsey Street, [...]

Gunwalker Update: “Are you gonna do something? Or just stand there and bleed?

Over the weekend, Congressman Jason Chaffetz of the House Oversight and Reform Committee was on FOX discussing how White House national security advisor Kevin O’Reilly has been made unavailable.  O’Reilly is Newell’s buddy (a review of the players here), who were exchanging emails back and forth, and is one of the big known connections to [...]