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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Big Sis knows nothink about Gunwalker. NOTHINK. "We are waiting for the Inspector General report."

Oversight is a critical function and a constitutional responsibility of the legislative branch. It’s often an overlooked function for members of Congress. It’s not always glamorous. It’s hard work, and it can be frustrating because of bureaucratic stonewalling.

In 2008, I was glad to hear the President-elect talk about the most transparent government ever. Unfortunately, up to this point, this administration has been far from transparent.

I’m glad the Secretary is here today. This hearing will give us an opportunity to ask questions that have gone unanswered. I’m frustrated by the less than forthcoming answers we receive from the administration. . .

Finally, I have asked Secretary Napolitano in the past about the involvement of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer being detailed in Phoenix to ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious. I also asked Secretary Napolitano at a hearing back in June about whether she had had any communications about Fast and Furious with her former chief of staff, Dennis Burke, who was the U.S. Attorney in Arizona responsible for Fast and Furious. I did not get any response back from her. Mr. Burke is to be commended, to some extent, for being the only person to resign and take responsibility for the failed operation. Of course, I do not believe he should feel obligated to be the only fall guy. If there are other higher-ranking officials at the Justice Department who should also be held accountable, they should also step up to take responsibility.

Thanks to the Secretary for appearing before us today. I look forward to hearing from her. - Prepared Statement of Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Oversight Hearing of the Department of Homeland Security, Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Rough Transcript from the Senate Homeland Security meeting today:

Senator Charles Grassley questions Janet Napolitano:

Grassley: This is an issue I asked in June to respond to in writing .. did you talk to USAO Dennis Burke about Fast & Furious?

Napolitano: No.

Grassley: Did you talk to him about Agent Terry's death and then I'll go on...

Napolitano: If I might . . . Not about Fast and Furious.. When Agent Terry was killed. . . December 14th. . . I went to Arizona a few days after to meet with FBI agents and the Assistant US Attorney looking for the shooter. . . At that time nobody did forensics. . . I want to be sure that those responsible for his death are held accountable. . . I did have conversations in December of 09. . . at that time nobody knew about Fast and Furious.

Grassley: Since i first asked in March. . . have you done things? Looking into it?

Napolitano: I did ask ICE to look into it. . . As to whether there had been any involvement there. . . That is all. . . We are waiting for the Inspector General report. . .

Riiight, that ole IG report. Well, I won't hold up on lunch waiting for THAT.

3 comments:

Ashrak said...: Apparently, Janet doesn't realize that the "I didn't know" excuse landed Holder in a pot of hot water.; October 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM
Anonymous said...: We are watching the Republican Party go the same way as the old Whig party.; October 19, 2011 at 12:26 PM
sofa said...: Napolitano does resemble Shultz.
Never noticed that before.; October 20, 2011 at 12:53 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

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