[CIRCA] The House Oversight Committee released a report Wednesday that took former Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department to task over Operation Fast and Furious, a gun-running operation that went wrong, Fox News reported.
The report, which checked in at nearly 300 pages, said that the Justice Department under Holder misled Congress about the operation and actively hid the facts from the family of slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, at times being openly hostile towards them.
"More than five years after Brian’s murder, the Terry family still wonders about key details of Operation Fast and Furious," reads the report. "The Justice Department’s obstruction of Congress’s investigation contributed to the Terry family’s inability to find answers."
Terry was killed during a violent encounter with members of a cartel "rip crew" (a group that patrols the border looking for drug dealers to rob). The man who killed Terry was apprehended in April.
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Now there is a real scandal not the current fake, manufactured Russian-collusion scandal. Are we going to finally have a real investigation where people actually go to jail for their criminality in F&F?
Critics of President Trump say that asking a high ranking official like former FBI Director James Comey for loyalty is unprecedented for a U.S. president.
But Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates told CBS News anchor John Dickerson last month he had a discussion about loyalty with Obama at the beginning of his first term, the Ace of Spades blog notes.
"In the reporting about the F.B.I. director, there was a report that the president asked him for his loyalty. Help people understand the line between duty, loyalty, and personal conscience," Dickerson said.
Gates replied, "I think in the context of senior government positions, I think an anecdote of what I told President-Elect Obama when we had our first meeting. And I said, ’You don’t know me. Can you trust me? Why do you think you can trust me?’ and so on. But at the end, I said, ’You can count on me to be loyal to you. I will not leak. I will keep my disagreements with you private. And if I cannot be loyal, I’ll leave.’"
Gates went on to say, "Loyalty means doing what you think is in the best interest of that person as well as the country. And often, that loyalty means telling them things they don’t want to hear. It’s not being sycophantic, it’s not telling them how wonderful they are every day. It’s being willing to tell them the days they’re not wonderful. And when you think they’re making a mistake."
However, CBS News anchor Bob Schieffer in 2014 accused Gates of not being loyal to the president, according to Gates’s memoir, Newsbusters noted.
"I think there’s a certain loyalty to the presidency. And I think when you make it harder for a president while he is still in office I think -- I have problems with that," Schieffer said.
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In other words, it's only a problem when a Republican does it - example 26,994.
[News24] Montreal - Former US president Barack Obama praised US states and cities for maintaining measures against climate change in a fresh jab at his successor's decision to quit the Paris accord.
Addressing a crowd of 6 000 in Montreal on Tuesday, he argued that his administration had been able to show that greener policies were good for economic growth.
"When it comes to the threat of climate change, we have shown that environmental sustainability and economic progress are not contradictory but are complementary," he told the enthusiastic crowd.
"I took great comfort last week in seeing American states and cities and universities and corporations make it clear that they will keep pushing ahead for the sake of the future generations."
Last week US President Donald Trump's decided to pull out of the Paris climate accord, attracting international condemnation.
A string of state governors, city mayors and powerful companies were quick to pledge to meet greenhouse gas emission targets regardless of Trump's decision.
During Obama's presidency, the United States was one of the 195 countries around the world to sign up to the 2015 agreement.
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Obama appears to have narrowed his focus of dissension and subterfuge against an entire nation, to dissension and subterfuge against a against a newly elected president. He is reportedly the first former president to undertake such an effort. I suppose we should not be too surprised.
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Maybe they will cut back on local government use of gas burning vehicles, turn all thermostats up to 80 in summer and down to 65 in winter, get rid of water coolers and other high energy use equipment. No more flying to conferences, either. Take the bus.
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Well, give 'em a chance! Let's see how much they cut carbon emissions in the next year.
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No more flying to conferences, either. Take the bus.
There's no real need for 90 percent of the "conferences" that take place. Send a detailed memo, follow it up with a teleconference, and then move on with your work.
[Wash Times] Rep. Al Green, a maverick Democrat, said Wednesday he is drafting articles of impeachment against President Trump, alleging the Republican president broke the law in May and must be held to account.
Mr. Green, of Texas, accused Mr. Trump of obstructing justice when he fired FBI Director James B. Comey and then told a TV reporter he did so because of "this Russia thing" -- meaning the bureau’s probe of alleged Russian meddling in last year’s election, and whether the Trump campaign had anything to do with it.
"The remedy for obstructing justice is impeachment," said Mr. Green, who’s represented a district covering much of southwestern Houston since 2005.
"The firing, coupled with the statement, indicated that the president intended to do what he did," he said.
Mr. Green said he is drafting and reviewing at least one article of impeachment, yet has no "acid test" for when he might actually file the document, saying he wants the public to weigh in first.
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" a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
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There is nothing "maverick" about Al Green, he represents a minority district in Houston and is slightly more cogent than his neighbor Sheila "we put a man on Mars" Jackson Lee. Mr. Green must be facing a serious opponent in the next primary because he has had more local and national publicity this spring than in his whole career.
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Mr. Green said he is drafting and reviewing at least one article of impeachment but has no “acid test” for when he might actually file the documents, saying he wants the public to weigh in first.
Best part, I'll draft it and sit on it. No accountability at all that way.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[CIRCA] The House Oversight Committee released a report Wednesday that took former Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department to task over Operation Fast and Furious, a gun-running operation that went wrong, Fox News reported.
