Sipsey Street Irregulars: Here's the link to the White House of Cards

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Here's the link to the White House of Cards

The "Minority Report." As I told some folks with the investigation today, this is a house of cards capable of being collapsed by one more email.

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rdf67 said...: Only read to the part that exonerates Melson because he didn't know. Well - Why did he go after the whistle blower? If he didn't know, he never should have tried to make life miserable for the first honest agent to speak up about a felony stupid program. The attempt to tie Fast and Furious to prior ops is laughable. Too bad he didn't read the e-mail released by the White House before issuing the report. I am sure that they do not interest Cummings in the least.

I guess it is perfectly okay with Cummings for the first Chief of Crim Div in history to take the 5th rather than tell the truth about this "political issue".; January 31, 2012 at 8:29 PM
Ashrak said...: Me thinks I am gettin' the "you tell 'em or I will" feeling again.....

Something wicked this way comes.; January 31, 2012 at 9:11 PM
Dedicated_Dad said...: Anyone who has *EVER* worked ANYWHERE NEAR a .gov office will tell you there's simply no way in HELL This happened without approval all the way from the top.

NO.F***ING.WAY.

I've got a couple of ideas that may help - a couple of aspects that I don't think have been sufficiently mined for information:
(1) As I understand it:
(a) when Darren Gil was ATF Liason to Mex.gov he was kept in the dark about this sickness.
(b) When he found out about it, he raised hell all the way to DC HQ.
(c) He was subsequently forced into early retirement.

WHO did he talk to in DC?
WHO forced him to retire?
There MUST be a phone-call/E-mail/Paper-trail there SOMEWHERE!

(2) As I understand it:
(a) the databases ATF uses to track these weapons were manipulated to ensure nobody - whether US or Mex.gov - in Mexico accidentally stumbled over this operation.
(b) Setting database permissions and etc. is not the sort of thing an ATF agent is likely to do
(c) EVERY change in a system like this requires a "change control" document to be issued, filed, usually voted on in committee and etc.
(d) There SHOULD be documentation of the request for these database changes, and the discussion, approval and implementation thereof.

Trust me: With 20+ years in IT, many of them as a Contractor to huge corporations and .gov agencies, this SHOULD have a rather extensive paper-trail attached!

Figuring out who filed and approved the request for these changes might open some doors for further investigation!

HTH...

DD; January 31, 2012 at 10:42 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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Here's the link to the White House of Cards

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