Sipsey Street Irregulars: Codrea: The stonewalling continues; Ex-ATF SAC warns of ‘trap’ and ‘blood bath’ over ‘Project Gunwalker’ -- "explosive stuff."

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Codrea: The stonewalling continues; Ex-ATF SAC warns of ‘trap’ and ‘blood bath’ over ‘Project Gunwalker’ -- "explosive stuff."

Stone walls can be pierced, often at the point where you'd think there were the strongest.

House Oversight Committee spokesman confirms ATF missed Issa deadline

A spokesman for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has confirmed that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Assistant Director Kenneth Melson did not produce documents and information related to the unfolding Project Gunrunner story that were requested "as soon as possible, but no later than 5:00 p.m. on March 30, 2011" by Chairman Darrell Issa.

Committee spokesman Seamus Kraft called this correspondent in response to a request made earlier today, and confirmed that "ATF did not meet our request deadline."

Kraft advises that further developments to uncover the truth will be forthcoming.

Plus:

Ex-ATF SAC warns of ‘trap’ and ‘blood bath’ over ‘Project Gunwalker’

A former ATF agent foresees dire consequences if the bureau continues failing to cooperate with congressional investigations.

This came in on the evening of Mar. 30 via email from a trusted source. This correspondent has confirmed it was written by retired SAC (Special Agent in Charge) Bernie La Forest, who “headed up offices in Kansas City, Detroit, Phoenix and Los Angeles,” and is reproduced below unedited. It is in response to Allan Lengel’s TickleTheWire.com report “ATF Needs to Clean the Manure Off Its Boots Now.”

Mr. La Forest has given permission to share his email with Gun Rights Examiner readers with the folowing caveat:

I would only ask that you make it clear that this was simply an “opinion” of someone who has been “out-of-the-game" for several years. I was never muzzled as an ATF manager, even when I and others testified before a congressional subcommittee concerning the 1981 –’82 Proposed Abolishment of ATF under the Reagan Administration.

It is explosive stuff:

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Pull all funding for the clowns and they'll sing you song...; March 31, 2011 at 2:03 PM
Thomas/PatriotofPast said...: If Melson is being "Ordered" to stonewall... And he knows he is going down with the ship, Why not just spill the beans? Name Names, point fingers...
Hell, Bring them ALL DOWN WITH YA!; March 31, 2011 at 3:30 PM
TPaine said...: I would hope that this is the beginning of the end of BATFE, but we have heard this crap before, so I'm not going to get my hopes up too high. This administration has shown that they earnestly believe they are "above the law" and will have no problems just refusing to provide any information asked for. Maybe this time, their hand will ber called, and those deserving will be forced to fall upon their swords.

One can only hope! We'll see.; March 31, 2011 at 3:40 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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