Sipsey Street Irregulars: Grassley to Holder: What did you know and when did you know it? "Questions for the Record" for just about everybody in the Gunwalker Scandal.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Grassley to Holder: What did you know and when did you know it? "Questions for the Record" for just about everybody in the Gunwalker Scandal.

Stephen: [speaking heavenward] Him? That can't be William Wallace. I'm prettier than this man. All right Father, I'll ask him. If I risk my neck for you, will I get a chance to kill Englishmen?

Hamish: Is your father a ghost, or do you converse with the Almighty?

Stephen: In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God. Yes, Father. The Almighty says don't change the subject; just answer the fooking question. -- Braveheart, 1995.

David Codrea beat me to this story here: "Grassley asks Holder to expedite answers to Gunwalker questions."

Here's the pdf of the latest letter, and, boy, is it a doozy.

More on this tomorrow. It's midnight and I'm beat.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: The DOJ/ATF conspiracy and subsequent coverup is coming unravelled.

It is evident that Senator Grassley is aware of the conspiracy's existence and extent, knows who the conspirators are and has taken great pains to ensure none of them escape his net.

The likelyhood of maintaining the conspiracy of silence diminishes with each new request for information.

Gillette has already indicated his willingness to go public with what he knows, which increases the pressure on Newell to do likewise.

If Newell folds, it's "game over" for Melson, at the very least. In fact, this seems to be Grassley's ploy when he asks Holder if anyone in the Fast and Furious operation should be punished for his participation.

Will Holder offer Melson as a sacrificial lamb to Grassly? Will the lamb go meekly to slaughter?

Stay tuned to the SSI freedom blog to find out... :^)

MALTHUS; May 19, 2011 at 7:34 AM
CowboyDan said...: I just read the attachments to the latest Grassley letter. Dooies, indeed.

This seems to leave Holder with just a couple of ugly choices, either to roll over and give up his bosses, or to take the stroll in the park that some have suggested.

While it's interesting that this has come to light and is being investigated, it's really sad to realize that this is said to be the best that we can offer as the leader of our Department of Justice.

What can we do to restore honor among men and truly put our best out there to serve?; May 19, 2011 at 9:27 AM
Bruce W. Krafft said...: Definitely one of my all-time favorite quotes.; May 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM
Anonymous said...: "What can we do to restore honor among men and truly put our best out there to serve?"

Don't hold your breath. Many people in our society are obsessed with tabloid "gotcha" poltics. So "our best" avoid politics like the plague. Others among us are willing to look the other way if the corruption is to their benefit.

Wan't an example? Miami-Dade County just recalled their mayor, in part for letting an MLB franchise hide their financial statements while getting public funding for a stadium. The front runner among candidates seeking the job is looking at a possible federal indictment. Your milage may vary, but I'm sure you can find a local example if you're paying any attention at all.; May 20, 2011 at 7:58 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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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Grassley to Holder: What did you know and when did you know it? "Questions for the Record" for just about everybody in the Gunwalker Scandal.

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