Sipsey Street Irregulars: Protecting this guy (and his bosses) is actually what the executive privilege business is all about.

Friday, June 22, 2012

Protecting this guy (and his bosses) is actually what the executive privilege business is all about.

W.H.: Ex-staffer can't be questioned on Fast and Furious.

The White House said a former National Security staffer who communicated with ATF's Special Agent in charge of "Fast and Furious" cannot be interviewed by Congressional investigators.

The ATF Special Agent, Bill Newell, testified to Congress in July 2011 that he's a longtime friend with then-White House National Security Staffer Kevin O'Reilly. The two emailed and talked on the phone during the controversial Fast and Furious gunwalking operation, according to documents and Newell's testimony to Congress.

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Anonymous said...: No big deal if O'Reilly is still sequestered in Iraq. There are very capable interrogators there who could be put to the task of taking his deposition. Hopefully, the deposition would not be cordial or friendly.

State side he could go before the investigators or the full committee and let it all hang out. No big deal right? Every thing was above board and legal right? They had clearance for the operation from the DOJ lawyers, right?

It was nothing. A few overzealous ATF agents. Right?

Right?

Come on out O'Reilly, you sniveling bureaucratic statist. Let us all know it's nothing to worry about.; June 22, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Anonymous said...: Does it really matter where he is if a supoena is issued? Just don't get why he isn't answerable to Congress like anyone else.; June 22, 2012 at 10:43 PM
Anonymous said...: Can't he be supoened like any other US citizen?; June 22, 2012 at 10:44 PM
Anonymous said...: The rule of law applies to every one..and I do mean Every one..We the people need to get off our ass and force this issue..or we lose this republic forever

this country is headed to WROL..revolution..and who knows what after that..

III% keep your powder dry..armored vehicles were rolling on St Louis streets..and that my friends is not necessary , they have training grounds, and plenty of real estate that we all paid for , so they could play war games out of public streets. Their intentions? to scare all of us into compliance..; June 23, 2012 at 4:21 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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