Pensions intact?

Fer sure!


ETA:

And dead people turning up all over Mexico.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hackers sympathetic to the late computer prodigy Aaron Swartz claimed on Saturday to have infiltrated the website of the U.S. Justice Department's Sentencing Commission, and said they planned to release government data.

The Sentencing Commission site, www.ussc.gov , was shut down early Saturday.

There was a thread about that this am. The whole site was taken down lol.

Would be nice if they came across files containing the documents that Holder is withholding from the committee, and released those.

Might actually get some news coverage.

IIRC, it wouldn't be the first time Anonymous has been our 'friend'...

Sadly nothing they produce can be used as evidence.

But as FOIA fodder?

"Executive Privilege" + deny deny deny + complicit media.

No but it would make good propaganda.

House, Holder may near deal on Fast and Furious contempt



More delays.

What's the deal?  Holder contempts more, and the house gets some free lube?

Forbes: Obama Orders Prosecution Of Fast And Furious Perpetrators (Sort Of)
More at link.

Hearing yields explosive testimony about law enforcement corruption in gun case

Am I wrong because I'm pissed that this is being "settled" like a f*cking  property line dispute.

The really sad thing is that this is nothing new, as far as their tactics are concerned in gun cases against non-thugs.

The obama admin just lost the recess-appointment lawsuit brought by Landmark Legal Foundation (Mark Levin) and others. As a result, HotAir.com wrote this article ...



Zero doesn't like to lose. Seems he might be more reluctant now to let the courts decide the outcome for the holder contempt charges.

I do not see this delay as a positive thing for us

Rest of article HERE

The ATF just seems to be trying as hard as they can to shoot themselves in the foot. Check out this new story out of Milwaukee.

I'm guessing that there will be no deal and the can will be kicked down the road.

So DOJ has literally tens of thousands of known felons that filled out 4473 forms and were denied firearms purchases presumably committing a felony by lying on the form and going without prosecution, yet ATF a branch of DOJ spends all this time and money to make 30 arrests?

The term breach of fiduciary duty comes to mind.

"And to your point, Mr. Baker, regarding the lack of prosecutions on lying on Form 4473s, we simply don't have the time or manpower to prosecute everybody who lies on a form, that checks a wrong box, that answers a question inaccurately." Says Joe Biden.

Link

Is everyone remembering to bring up this illegitimate White House's funneling of thousands of real assault weapons to Mexico in their conversations about freedom control?

I contacted Mike Lee's offices yesterday, and reminded them about Fast & Furious.  They haven't forgotten.  

Everything is making sense to me now.  A lot of puzzle pieces have fallen into place, and I see what the picture is...

It's much worse than I thought.

Back to Mexico
The main question that kept bugging me was, what changed in Mexico in 2007, that kicked off this civil war there, leading to the deaths of 60,000+ souls?  It used to be a tourist attraction, and now it's a bloodbath.  We know that comrade Hussein has helped fuel that bloodbath, primarily through Foreign Military Sales in conjunction with Fast & Furious.

Mexican GDP is dependent upon illegal drugs, remittance payments from immigrant insurgents in the US, and energy.



The conclusion that I'm coming to is that the Triad Gangs from Hong Kong used the specialists at smuggling (primarily MS-13), as well as other business fronts, to siphon out hundreds of billions in US cash (that is normally laundered through Mexico and the Caribbean region) into Chinese holdings.  This most bold financial blow in world history accomplished & resulted in several dynamics:

* It triggered the credit crisis of 2007-2008, because US banks no longer had cash in the vaults to back loans
* This credit crisis triggered the housing bubble to burst, and the resulting global economic crisis
* This pushed the banks to run to the Federal Reserve begging to print $787 billion for them to get liquidity back into the market (TARP)
* It left the Mexican cartels empty-handed, ripe for being turned against each other (El Gapo, I heard that Enrique jacked your cash...)
* The cartels responded accordingly  





* It also gave the hidden hand an opportunity to agitate the useful idiots in DOJ to seize the moment with a false flag for a massive new gun-control scheme
* Since they have a puppet in the White House, his campaign paid for with illegal foreign money, what better opportunity than now...

An Inconvenient Series of Events
In that light, this regime encountered Brian Terry's and agent Zapata's deaths as inconvenient canaries that alerted us to an important component in this prematurely-signaled international web.  Everything was done in an attempt to hide the WH connection to Fast & Furious, and portray it as a rogue ATF Phoenix initiative once critical escape velocity had been reached in the media regarding ATF weapons being found at the scene.  The WH was forced into going on the defense & deny path, when the original plan was to use F&F deaths as a template for the gun control they are currently pushing for.  Who knows what type of "tragedy" on US soil they had planned with F&F weapons, but you get the sense of excitement when reading the DOJ emails after learning that they were used to kill Terry, although not what they were originally hoping for.





They let F&F fall out of the National Focus, after the series of delays and obfuscation with Holder and the Congressional hearings.  After the election, F&F seemed pointless for many career Republicans to "waste" political energy on, given the multiple brush fires started by the death by 1000 cuts strategy of this foreign-driven WH agenda.

With F&F effectively forgotten, they had freedom of maneuver to move forward with gun control, only needing the next SSRI-induced mass shooting or three to get the ball rolling back on track.  I called it years ago when I said they would wheel Gabriella Giffords out onto the Congressional floor, in an emotional cry to ban what little we have left of the 2A.



I didn't expect there to be as much resistance from the people and even Congress to a new Federal AWB though.  A lot of people have woken up, and that was apparent when I watched the Connecticut hearings on 70 new gun control proposals, while we get to guess what's behind all these redacted sections:

DOJ Docs Re: Terry Murder

Good post, wish it was on the front page of every paper in the country. Like you say it should be part of every gun conversation.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2013/01/31/letter-from-lawmakers-to-atf-on-milwaukee-sting-operation/

Letter from grassley and Issa on the Milwaukee ATF "sting"

Pretty funny,  extremely sad,

I wonder how many of the 22 points will be answered?
 

For some reason or another, I think you have the correct answer Garryowen.  





 

This comparison not Stanley approved.



 

more info
fox article

ATF's Milwaukee sting operation marred by mistakes, failures
A Journal Sentinel Watchdog Report

FIFY

I'm sure many of you would like to know that The Reese family has been given bail release and will be given a new trial.
Reese_Family_granted_bail__New_Revelations_about_withheld_evidence_etc_____NM_ATF_case.html

Another big ATF FAIL day.

De-fund and disband that agency. They are an embarrassment and liability. They lie, cheat, steal and murder with seeming immunity.

I hope and pray the Reese family is "made whole" for ALL their losses.

See, it's not even about being "made whole." It's about punishing the wrong doers, and punishing them severely.  Because if its just the "government" paying a settlement, the perpetrators don't have any skin in the game.   I think the US attys have culpability in this case too.  They withheld evidence.  At a minimum, he should be disbarred.

DOJ budget needs to be cut drastically every time they ignore Congress or answer evasively.  That is the only thing that will get the message across.  



What would have happened to the defendants attorney if they had withheld evidence?

25% for each question not answered expediently, 50% for every question unanswered, 75% per question answered dishonestly?  

He should face the exact same sentences he put them up for.

IE, if he was looking for a total of 20 years, he should also be looking at 20 years if convicted of withholding the evidence that overturned their conviction.

Didn't the same thing happen with the case about the Oly AR-15 that malfunctioned and 'went auto' on a public range?  The defense didn't know (until after the trial) that the BATF lab's report said the rifle was not capable of firing multiple shots from a single trigger pull, until the lead agent had them redo the tests using ammo with improperly seated primers (which can cause slamfires).

That would be fantastic!  Perhaps I'd get a refund this year!



 

I'm assuming you're talking about the David Olofson case?

I remember all of the rest, except the part about an ATF lab report stating what the rest of us in that thread already knew/suspected.

Len Savage is in this thread, too, IIRC... but I doubt he checks it on a regular basis.

As I recall, the BATF lab tested the rifle, and reported that they could not get it to fire more than one round with a single pull of the trigger.  Then the lab repeated their previous tests, and reported  that the rifle would fire more than one round with a single pull of the trigger.  The defense learned that the rifle had been tested twice (and determined not to be a machinegun after the first test) after the trial.  Somewhere along the way, it came out that the lead agent had requested that the test be done again, and gave instructions on the ammo that was to be used.

If my memory isn't off.

I don't recall hearing of a single death due to Fast and Furious weapons since Brian Terry's death, yet there are still how many weapons still unaccounted for?

Is ATF hiding that information?

If you read back a few pages, you can catch up on the last series of deaths in November of 2012 where several deaths had F&F weapons at the scene, to include a Mexican beauty queen.  One of the pistols found was an FN Five Seven bought and sold by ATF Assistant Special Agent of the ATF Phoenix Office, George Gillett, who was a manager there when Fast & Furious was launched.

CBS Story by Sheryl Attkisson

Totally forgot about those, remember now.  

I suppose Gillett still hasn't been prosecuted either.

http://www.examiner.com/article/remaining-jailed-new-mexico-gun-dealers-finally-freed-after-bureaucratic-delay

Finally, out of jail!

Hopefully, there will be a new trial or not; there's been so much publicity in the local area and so much misconduct by the prosecution and .gov that .gov may decide not to prosecute again and allow the Reese family to put this behind them and reconstruct what's left of their lives and move on.

Hopefully, as Nolo reminded us, there will be retributions heaped upon the prosecution and judges who perpetrated this grave injustice.

I still say those prosecutors who knew they were lying should face the same sentences they tried to get them to serve.