Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. [Laura: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?] Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House.”
…And I’m certainly not the one to make the case for DOJ and White House about what I’m doing wrong. They will tell you that I’m the only reporter–as they told me–that is not reasonable. They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I’m the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I’m unfair and biased by pursuing it.
How unreasonable, to actually report the news.
[Update a while later]
None too soon: House Judiciary Commmittee is (finally) requesting a special counsel to investigate the Attorney General. This time, it’s both the crime and the cover up. And it’s likely to lead to the White House.
They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable,
That really says a lot about the 4th branch of government.
Lap dogs obeying their masters.
To the DOJ, reasonable means “Nothing to see here. Move along.”
Eric Holder is going to need a blanket pardon from the SCOAMF.
Incredible. One more frick’n step into the Twilght Zone.
Those are some mighty well trained plantation dogs there.
What did they think the kneepads were for, anyway?
A scandal that threatens to consume Obama.
If memory serves it takes MEDIA scrutiny, not just Fox / GB / Laura Ingram, to keep pressure on any Administration to create or keep a scandal going. How far would Watergate have gone without the media screaming for facts? How about Iran Contra?
I’ll believe that there is a ‘scandal’ brewing when I see it on the front page of my local rag! Or on my local TV News at 4, 5 & 6.
Sari Horwitz of the Washington Post just did a guest spot on Greta. She said Holder may be correct in denying early knowledge of Fast & Furious because the memos just released by CBS don’t give any of the details of the operation. (How anyone could make that determination, considering the number of redactions in the memos, is beyond me.)
She also said that Fast & Furious is a continuation of an operation that began during the Bush adminstration.
The rot is deep. The whole alphabet soup of agencies are involved.
This will take more than an election.
I wonder a bit at the mechanism that gets so many media outlets to play along with a scandal. It seems to me more than just that the news agencies have similar ideologies to the current administration. How do you get dozens of fairly big news agencies to ignore a story where you have law enforcement getting killed by weapons smuggled over in a law enforcement operation? How did the Obama administration manage to get so many to ignore that for so long?
So I wonder if the coverup not only includes lying to Congress, but also a massive manipulation and extortion campaign against most of the media as well? The quote about being “reasonable” seems to me something that a mob boss would say. Be “reasonable” or something bad could happen to your home or business. So what is the stick that the Obama administration uses when their ideological carrots don’t work?
Gunwalker did originate under Bush, but Fast & Furious was an entirely new and distinct initiative under Obama and Holder.
McGhee,
I think you have that backwards. Guns were not walked under Bush, only Obama.
Whether guns were walked or not, what I’ve read says, IIRC, that “Gunwalker” was a name first applied prior to Bush’s leaving office. The scandal is about F&F in particular.
If I’m wrong about that, I’ll happily retract.
Even if it DID ‘begin under Bush’, aren’t Holder and Obama still culpable for allowing the program to continue?
The operation under Bush sounds a bit different, as it was a local effort by agents in Tuscon who had become aware of some suspicious arms purchases.
Forbes on operation Wide Receiver.
Gunwalker, Gunrunner, Fast & Furious, Wide Receiver: it’s confusing. Were the weapons effectively traced at any point, and who was behind the orders to Agent Dodson in June, 2010 to abandon his surveillance of the stash house?
The Forbes article reflects a ho-hum attitude, suggesting the House committee investigation is politically motivated, but the smell of death hangs over recent ATF operations and we need to know who’s responsible.
Someone needs to tell Bush blamer Obama that ‘two wrongs don’t make a right.’
Neither does three lefties…