Remember the Fast & Furious scandal?
It is understandable if the memory grows hazy, given that Fast & Furious is one of so many scandals and failures of this impossibly incompetent, inept, dishonest administration which have been buried by most mainstream media, that it is hard to keep them top-of-mind.
But I hope you remember it today. Because years-old information has come out (more exactly, was finally forced out through use of the Freedom of Information Act) which not only demonstrates – again – that Attorney General eric holder lied to our faces about his knowledge of this operation, but also directly implicates President Obama\’s most trusted acolyte, Valerie Jarrett.
From the explosive commentary at judicialwatch.org:
PresidentObama\’s trusted senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, was a key playerin the effort to cover up that Attorney General Eric Holder lied toCongress about the Fast and Furious scandal, according to publicrecords obtained by Judicial Watch.
JW had to sue the agency for the records after the Obamaadministration failed to provide them under the Freedom ofInformation Act (FOIA). Yesterday JW reportedon the broad information in the records, including that Obamaasserted executive privilege for Holder\’s wife as part of theadministration\’s efforts to cover up the scandal.
Jarrett was brought in to manage the fact that Holder lied toCongress after the story about the disastrous gun-running operationbroke in the media. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms andExplosives (ATF) ran the once-secret program that allowed guns fromthe U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually betraced to drug cartels. Instead, federal law enforcement officerslost track of hundreds of weapons which have been used in an unknownnumber of crimes, including the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agentin Arizona.
Thisdirectly contradicted Holder\’s May 3, 2011 testimony to the HouseOversight and Government Reform Committee, during which he statedthat he, “probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first timeover the last few weeks.” The October 4, 2011 date may also besignificant because it came shortly after the August 30, 2011resignation of U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke andreassignment of acting ATF director Kenneth Melson to the position of”senior forensics advisor” at DOJ.
There is more (as if what you just read isn\’t enough). so I urge you to use the link I\’ve provided to read it all.
How important was Fast & Furious? Well, those weapons apparently were used to kill two of our agents – not one, as the above commentary suggests (Border Agent Brian Terry and Customs Agent Jaime Zapata), along with an unknown number of others (years ago, Mexico estimated its loss of life in the hundreds).
But what stands out – again, as it has in so many other instances since this administration took office – is that President Obama and the people around him are liars, who hide behind their Accomplice Media; media which would rather allow their lies, and the horrible consequences of Fast & Furious to be kept from the public than to confront the people they so avidly, so unprofessionally provide cover for.
I count the days until the Obama administration is out of office. But have largely given up hope that mainstream media will even think about trying to retrieve its professionalism in the forseeable future.
