Recent content by publius

It was bound to happen. You can get the Liberator code in a bound paper volume. Hah! Here is a book that you need to buy that many in the gun control industry would like to see banned. It is called The Liberator Code Book: An Exercise in Free Speech. The book is exactly what it says it is -...

After we get done with the state challenges, it seems. It may not matter to the case, but just as happened with PGP years ago, the cat has gotten out of the bag, she had kittens, the kittens have shredded the bag, and that makes arguments over how to get her back in that bag a bit moot. The...

If the topic post is accurate that she intends to make transfer illegal, the market value will go to zero. That would be significantly different from the 1994-2004 mean-looking weapons ban. If I have an object that is worth money and the government passes a law making it worth zero, is that a...

The finger pointing when this comes out will be interesting. That briefing sounds like it will make the DOJ's Feb 4, 2011 letter to Congress denying that the ATF walked guns even harder to explain than it already is. Not to mention the ten months it took to reverse that denial.

The "outside organization" is Congress, an equal branch of government. They do not have to rely on another branch to investigate why it lied to them. They can do it themselves. The IG's job is to investigate Fast and Furious, not the subsequent lies to Congress. The IG would not even have...

DOJ Withheld Fast and Furious Whistleblower Memo There is nothing about this information that would compromise an ongoing investigation, nothing that merits a claim of executive privilege, and Congress certainly has the right as an independent branch of government to investigate how the DOJ...

The fact that most of the media summarize the above by saying the Fast and Furious story is one in which some "agents lost track of guns" is more astounding. That does not begin to describe what was going on, yet if one searches for that phrase in quotes, the results are numerous. Why?

An even quicker observation: Wide Receiver is not Fast and Furious. A slightly slower observation, but much funnier: Lanny Breuer is the only American to fail to note the similarities between the two programs. One wonders how he missed it?

The IG investigation would never have begun if not for the Congressional investigation that started a month earlier. What began a month earlier at the DOJ was a coverup, not an investigation. See post 127. That coverup included a false statement to Congress, since withdrawn, that the ATF did...

Do you mean this one from post number 62? http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h6blqmM2jeQ8hxrVDaHVUshQLokA?docId=44ff0778c01e45709c1df986a2be0c4e It seems to me to undermine the conclusion you earlier reached: As your source shows in the excerpt below, the IG...

I think Senator Grassley's interest in the email that flew around the day before the DOJ lied to Congress about gunwalking is legitimate. He wants to know how they came to make a statement they later had to withdraw. If that's not an oversight role, what is? The email in question:

For those who don't know the answer to my question and don't want to wait for an unlikely reply, the answer is: So Grassley was looking into this for a month or so before Holder ordered an IG investigation, which by the way was ordered several weeks after the DOJ lied to Congress about...

Yes, a few hundred, about a quarter of the number "lost" in Fast and Furious. Everyone who has looked at both operations has been able to connect them because of certain similarities. Uh, except Lanny Breuer. He knew about the gunwalking in Wide Receiver, but it never occurred to him that...

Congress wants to know why they were lied to about the ATF walking guns and how that lie came to be retracted months later. Seems like reasonable oversight to me. Deliberations over how to lie to Congress do not fall under executive privilege.

When was the IG investigation into Fast and Furious ordered, and by whom?