Sipsey Street Irregulars: Official Correspondence on the Project Gunwalker Scandal.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Official Correspondence on the Project Gunwalker Scandal.

Senator Charles Grassley

It struck me this morning while I was searching for one of these letters below that a post containing all of them, properly updated and linked on the sidebar, would be a useful tool. So here it is.

27 January: Grassley to Kenneth Melson.

31 January: Grassley to Melson.

4 February: Ronald Weich to Grassley.

9 February: Grassley to Eric Holder.

16 February: Grassley to Holder.

3 March: Grassley to Eric Holder & Kenneth Melson.

4 March: Grassley to Kenneth Melson.

4 March: Grassley to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

4 March: Grassley to Alan D. Bersin.

8 March: Grassley to Kevin L. Perkins.

8 March: Ronald Weich to Grassley.

9 March: Lamar Smith and House Judiciary Committee members to Eric Holder.

16 March: Grassley to Alan D. Bersin.

16 March: Darrell Issa to Kenneth Melson.

28 March: Grassley to Kenneth Melson.

29 March: Darrell Issa to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

1 April: Press Release, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform -- "Chairman Issa Subpoenas ATF for ‘Project Gunrunner’ Documents."

1 April: Elijah Cummings to Darrell Issa.

1 April: House Oversight Committee Subpoena to Melson.

8 April: Grassley to Melson.

13 April: Grassley to Holder.

13 April: Weich to Issa.

14 April: Grassley Press Release on Letter to Holder.

20 April: Issa to Melson Contempt Letter.

2 May: Weich to Grassley.

3 May: Issa & Grassley to Holder.

5 comments:

James said...: 16 letters yet only two are to congressmen. i find this to be utterly disgusting..
apparently the ATF under the jurisdiction of the DOJ and Holder DO have something to hide.

The question is What; March 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM
aughtsix said...: Complicity.

Jon

III; March 30, 2011 at 7:54 PM
ConcernedAmerican said...: So the operation that provided a large number of weapons that were used to commit crimes including the murder of a border agent appears to have been conducted by the ATF, permissioned by the DOJ and possibly involved Secretary of State Clinton. The DOJ actions were authorized by Assistant Attorneys acting under the authority of Attorney General Eric Holder. Where does the buck stop? All the way to the top? The President? This cavalier operation and the crimes and deaths it enabled are in the process of being attributed to those responsible and the names of top administration officials, Holder and Clinton are involved at this point. There is not going to be a hush up concealing the chain of command and the revelation of exactly whose authority was involved. Many thanks to Chuck Grassley and Darryl Issa! Run this to ground and let the American people know. Make government officials who use poor judgement accountable for their actions. This is what Americans deserve.; April 1, 2011 at 9:09 AM
Anonymous said...: Thanks Mike,

Have the rest of us done our part?

I've finally sent a note to Grassley - should have been earlier. They are holding hearings - let us let them know we're watching.

ML27; June 12, 2011 at 10:08 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey Mike, somewhere along in your busy day could we get an update on this link to official correspondence?; November 21, 2011 at 2:59 AM

"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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