The DOJ OIG was allowed to see tens of thousands of DOJ documents that were withheld from the Committee. The Holder DOJ trusted the DOJ's IG. So the Obama WH witholding documents from
its own DOJ Inspector General is the tactical equivalent of a civilian refusing to submit to a strip search in a investigation? I don't buy the analogy. Its more like the police chief refusing to talk to his internal affairs office.
Other topic, expanding my earlier observation:
Couple that desire for a new AWB with Obama & Felipe Calderon's Rose Garden appeals for an AWB to stop bloodshed from Calderon's Mexican Drug War, ratcheted up by him sending in the Army in Dec 2006, and the repetition of the 90% myth, debunked by DHS and Strategic Forecasting, it is easy to imagine a dishonest regime pulling a "false flag" operation. Right now there is more suspicion than evidence.
I will add to my earlier posts that when Calderon met with Bush, both agreed that the increase in drug war homicides was a good thing because the vast majority were drug cartel members. The first strike when Calderon sent the Army into his home state Dec 2006 resulted in 500 cartel deaths. This was viewed as winning the War on Drugs. Collateral damage of Operation Michoacan were the deaths of ~100 policemen and ~60 soldiers.
The Mexican newspaper El Universal began publishing a running total of deaths attributed to drug cartel violence starting when Calderon mobilized the Army in Operation Michoacan in Dec 2006, the start of the current Mexican Drug War.
Reported homicides and in particular gun homicides in Mexico were stable between 1997 and 2006, averaging 12,658 homicides with 3,503 by shooting per year over ten years.
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Mexican Homicides and Deaths Attributed to the Mexican Drug War
Year: Total Gun Drug War
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2007: 8,867 4,040 2,837
2008: 14,006 5,095 6,844
2009: 19,803 8,804 9,635
2010: 24,374 11,309 15,273
The gun deaths and drug war deaths are subsets of the Total Homicides.
(Notice the Drug War Death totals per year for 2008-2010 exceeded the number of Mexican gun homicides for those years. Mexican drug gangsters are killing thousands of people each year with weapons other than firearms.)
16 Apr 2009 Mexican President Felipe Calderon appeared before news media with US President Barak Obama and blamed the accelerated death rate in Mexico on the sunset of the US Assault Weapons Ban AWB in 2004. Obama stated his support for renewing the Assault Weapons ban, blaming the US Congress and gun rights resistance. Sep 2009 Obama appointed Dennis Burke, credited by Sen Dennis DeConcini with being the architect of the AWB, as US Attorney for Phoenix. Oct 2009 the discredited tactic of gunwalking, ordered stopped by the Bush Administration 6 Oct 2007, was re-instated by Phoenix ATF SAC William Newell (who had been honcho under Wide Receiver (2006-2007), Hernandez (2007) and Medrano (2008)).
Newell was operating in a total vacuum, and the renewal of gunwalking goes no higher than Newell and Phoenix ATF and Burke and Phoenix USAO, and it was never an attempt to promote the AWB or bolster the 90% Myth by putting more US guns in cartel hands to show up in crime scene traces.
How credibile is Burke? 15 Dec 2010 the day after Brian Terry was shot, Burke emailed Wilkinson at DOJ HQ that two guns at the scene were OF&F guns sold in Phoenix. When Burke met Terry's family three months later, Burke told them that the guns were sold at a store in Texas. And of course any possible communication between DOJ and the WH is off limits, because the WH did not directly communicate with Phoenix. What communications we do have between Phoenix. DOJ and the public show the players like Burke are liars.
